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Bike Plan Injunction Injunction, What's Your Function?
Today's Bike Plan rally was witnessed by a brace of Supervisors, including Bevan Dufty, Tom Ammiano, Gerardo Sandoval and Ross Mirkarimi, plus a representative of Senator Carole Migden.
A crowd of over 100 listened to San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Leah Shahum draw attention to the slow progress in implementing the city's Bicycle Plan. Here's the problem -- a while back local gadfly Rob Anderson and a few others worked to convince a judge to halt any implementation of the plan until the necessary Environmental Impact Report gets completed. Fair enough, but the EIR is taking a long time to complete. So it appears the SFBC might have a good beef.
Where's the beef? See you after the jump.
Here's the useful chart, to the left of the UDG (unidentified dapper gentleman). Larger version here.
Well that lays it all out for you. The latest revised schedule shows a completion date of around mid-2009. That basically means nothing will get done on the Bike Plan until 2010. That sounds like a long way off, non?
Full details here.
"The City is now estimating that the final Environmental Impact Report is delayed by a year, until mid-2009. Given that it may take weeks or months for the Judge to then lift the injunction & additional months or years for the actual implementation of the Bike Network projects, we are easily looking at 2010 before we see another bike lane or bike rack in San Francisco. This will be 4+ years of inaction at a time when other major cities (NYC, Chicago, Paris, London) are racing ahead of SF in making progress on improving bike transportation.
"PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW: Write Mayor Newsom and the members of the Board of Supervisors to urge them to make the completion of the Bike Plan review a top priority for the City and to stick to the original, speedier timeline.
We need to show our City leaders that we are watching them and that they can't talk "green" while letting plans for improving the greenest form of transportation languish from inattention. Call or email the Mayor and each of the Supervisors *today*. We need hundreds of calls to make an impact.
Tell them that you're frustrated with their lack of priority to moving the Bike Plan review faster and that you want them to put all needed resources to getting bike improvements back on track. We can't wait 4 years for the next bike lane or bike rack. This is unacceptable!"