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Blog contributed by Kate Hopkins

In San Francisco, 58 percent more people are biking today than just four years ago. The boom is largely thanks to new bike paths and events geared toward cycling.

One of the boldest efforts to boost biking in the Bay Area is the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s Connecting the City campaign, which envisions an extensive and practical network of safe and inviting bike routes across the metropolitan region. The goal by 2020 is 100 miles of bikeways that encourage residents to pedal to shop, work, and play, while preserving the city’s historic integrity and relieving traffic congestion and strained transit systems.

To advance that ambitious goal and build the movement for a connected city, SFBC launched a new website this month, which lays out the routes, tells how to volunteer or donate to the campaign, and highlights recent news and events. The site is accessible, user-friendly and offers visual renderings of the proposed lanes. The Coalition also created a short video — Stephanie’s Story — to give a snapshot of everyday use and grassroots demand for family-friendly bike infrastructure. Stephanie shares her family’s transportation needs, the ease and convenience of bike travel, and the innocent joy of a kid on a bike. She says that safer bike paths will allow her children to be more independent and her husband safer in his commute.

To make sure policymakers are aware of the grassroots demand, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition sent a letter to new Mayor Edwin Lee just a few days after he took office, welcoming him and asking for his support in Connecting the City. The letter has specific suggestions for new areas to develop, upkeep and repair of existing bikeways, and a concrete timeline for putting it all into practice.

Check out the routes that Connecting the City is working on here and keep up with the entire project here.

Photo from Connecting the City: Artist rendering of Market Street