SF Politics and Bicycling and TransportationPosted by sasha at 11 Dec 2007 04:51 pm
There were roughly a hundred people at City Hall today rallying to encourage the city to move forward as fast as possible with the Bike Plan environmental review. Supervisors Ammiano, Dufty, Mirkarimi and Sandoval (along with College Board Commissioner Rizzo) were in attendance. Here are some pictures:
A couple more photos here.
December 11th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Once again the BOS has to step up to the plate to do what our inept MIA Mayor should be doing.
December 12th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
City progs would like to blame it on the mayor, but that’s not true. In fact, if you read the Bay Guardian article, you can see that it’s the people who are actually writing the EIR—like Oliver Gjada in DPT—who understand that the Bicycle Plan is a big project that affects streets and neighborhoods all over the city. The city simply won’t be able to get it done with a quickie, pro forma EIR, since they will still have to get it okayed by Judge Busch, who sharply rebuked the city for its earlier slap-dash approach to this project. Why not just take your time and get it right? Of course I won’t point out that the city should have done an EIR in the first place, which would have avoided this kerfuffle.
December 14th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Hmmmm…..Rob Anderson: Avoid this Kerfuffle? Perhaps if you had not sued the city we would have avoided this waste of time!!!
December 17th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
It’s a “waste of time” to study the possible impacts of taking away traffic lanes and street parking all over the city to make bike lanes? Not to mention that, as Judge Busch noted in his decision, the city was in clear violation of the most important environmental law in the state, the California Environmental Quality Act of 1976. The city’s bike people seem to assume that their good intentions and the fact that bikes don’t burn fossil fuel are enough to exempt them and the city from the law. What’s the hurry? Why not get it right? That the city must now do an EIR on the 527-page Bicycle Plan does pose a danger to the city’s bike people, since that document will clearly have to tell the city’s neighborhoods what the city—with the SF Bicycle Coalition rooting them on—plans to do to their streets, which they may not be too happy about. The city tried to sneak the Plan through the process, and they got busted for it. They shouldn’t compound that mistake—and delay the Plan even more—by not doing an adequate job of the EIR.