Crews on Monday began repaving the middle of Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District, where a controversial middle bike lane was the center of a pilot project that backfired.
The repaving project is expected to take 8-10 days.
The initial work on what is dubbed the Valencia Street Bikeway Improvement Project started in February, and on Monday crews were expected to start repaving. The SFMTA is planning to repave block by block, spending 1-2 days on each block from 15th to 23rd streets.
No parking will be available on the section of Valencia scheduled for repaving. "No Parking" signs will be posted.
One lane of traffic in each direction will remain open during the roadwork.
Once paving is complete, crews will begin installing the new side-running bike lanes.
Here is the roadwork schedule for the week of March 31 through April 4:
- Valencia between 23rd & 22nd: paving, relocating
- Valencia between 22nd & 21st: paving, relocating
- Valencia between 21st & 20th: paving
- Valencia between 20th & 19th: remove bike share station (will replace after striping)
- Valencia at 17th: modifying bike share station
- Valencia at 16th: relocating bike share station
The original center bike lane pilot project took almost three years of planning, implementing and piloting, only to switch directions because it became a divisive issue for the neighborhood.
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The original timeline on the current repaving work projects completion by May, but a group now is calling for curbside bikeways to be extended and widened south on Valencia to Cesar Chavez.
