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C40/UC Berkeley study: San Francisco biking is disproportionately male; study urges protected lanes and community outreach
Summary
A C40‑sponsored study presented to San Francisco commissioners found that people biking in the South of Market pilot are overwhelmingly white men, with only 29% women and 13% women of color; researchers recommended more protected lanes, targeted outreach, bike education, and cultural‑change efforts to boost women’s participation.
City researchers and C40 partners presented initial findings from a gender‑focused bicycling study to a joint meeting of the Commission on the Environment and the Commission on the Status of Women, saying the data indicate women — and especially women of color — are underrepresented among San Francisco cyclists and that a mix of infrastructure and sociocultural strategies will be required to change that.
Wendy Goodfriend, Climate Program Manager at the Department of the Environment, and Margaret McCarthy, lead researcher on the project, said the study combined bike counts, 433 usable intercept surveys conducted over three days in South of Market, and four neighborhood focus groups.…
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