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After spending over $1 million to prove to a judge, one who ruled over two years ago that we cannot add any new bicycle infrastructure to city streets, San Francisco's massive Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the Bicycle Plan has -- at last! -- been released.
It's definitely interesting stuff: first, because it means we're one step closer to having some new bike stuff in this city; and second, because it's over a thousand fucking pages long. (Seriously, it ends at staggering 1353 pages.)
Also interesting: the report shows that bike lanes will mean some slowdown in transit. Uh oh. Of course that could be mitigated by adapting transit-priority signals that turn green when a bus needs to pass, instead of making busses stew endlessly in traffic, waiting for signals to change.
But, sadly, that would be hoping for too much. Muni is doomed to eternal, incompetent slowness. The least we can do is make life easier for bicyclists. Read more about the report at Streetsblog.
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On the other hand, if more people take to bicycling as a result of improved bike infrastructure (which, if the past is any indication, will surely be the case), there will be less car traffic for MUNI vehicles to stew in.
Interesting but not surprising piece of story in the chron this AM - the bike injunction has made life rough for pedestrians at 18th/Dolores and 18th/Guerrero. Seems since there are no - and can be no new - bike racks at those locales, bikes are getting locked to the streetlight poles and blocking the crosswalks right at the intersection. So bad that Herrera is asking to be exempted from the injunction and allowed to put bike racks there. Good thing because cyclists love them some Bi-Rite ice cream and Tartine Bakery.
I've started using google street view to see if I can ride somewhere, checking to see if there is a bike rack. The street views are sometimes dated, but even though Platanos is gonzo, I know the no bike rack status is still valid thanks to Rob Anderson.
And for all you fixie hipsters out there playing the murphstahoe drinking game... "zippy_monster is wrong"
Anything that keeps the cyclists from trying to run me over on the sidewalk is fine by me.
Suck it, Rob!
SFJoe, proper bike lanes should get sidewalk riders out of the path of pedestrians. Unfortunately, the kind of people who ride bikes on sidewalks are the same kind who ride the wrong way up the bike lanes.
Did you see the size of that EIR? What a fucking waste of money.
So the EIR is over 1300 pages. Doesn't that make the report itself a substantial impact on the environment with all that paper? Those poor trees.
The City should leave 10 copies of the EIR on the doorstep of the guy who asked for the injunction.