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‘We regret this bike lane:’ SF cyclist adds new signs on Valencia Street

Three months into construction on Valencia Street’s center bikeway, one daily commuter who could no longer stand the controversial bike path and its convoluted signs swapped them out with ones of her own making.

At noon Thursday, nine signs appeared on different sections of the bikeway, all covering the construction signs already in place. Each sign contained a phrase expressing displeasure: “LOL IDK how you will merge,” one sign reads.

“Uh, good luck turning right,” reads another one.

And the prankster’s favorite: “We regret this bike lane.”

The prankster said in a telephone interview that she made the signs because she finds the original signposts along the bike lane “pretty ridiculous.”

“They’re an obstruction to cyclists, and also extremely confusing,” she said. She asked to remain anonymous for fear of any consequences....