This is good news. There will be a new protected bikeway built next to the Panhandle on Oak Street in the eastbound direction (on the left side this time) to mirror the one that was put in on Fell Street (westbound).
Read the article here: https://www.sfmta.com/blog/improving-safety-and-access-panhandle-oak-street-quick-build-approved-board
An important statistic from the article is “With the Fell Street Quick-Build Project, a mirror image of the Oak proposal, there was a 38% drop in total collisions and a 50% drop in pedestrian collisions over a five-year period, and vehicle travel time increased by only 8–17 seconds.”
What this means is that this sort of infrastructure makes it much harder for drivers to hurt cyclists and pedestrians.
This is something to celebrate.