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  City&#39;s bike plan may alter traffic

  By: Mike Aldax
  
  
  06/23/09 2:00 AM PDT



  
    
      
        
      

      
        
      
    
  

  SAN FRANCISCO - An ambitious plan to add bicycle lanes to some of The City&#39;s busiest thoroughfares would slow traffic and
  Muni service, but transit officials say the congestion trade-offs will result in cleaner, calmer streets.

  The plan would add 34 miles to San Francisco&#39;s existing 45 miles of bicycle lanes during the next... ]]>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Re: Bicycle Plan is going to screw up traffic ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Wish, im actually serious for once. But there would be of course some trade offs. Bikes would be prohibited from some streets but a course would be figured out
for minimal impact which might require some bike inconvenience because those would be the must use routes. This takes the bik claim on its face by saying you
want to commute? Fine. Heres the commute route. Now stay off Bush. Stay off Geary. Stay off California. etc.I think tunnels would work at difficult or
problematic confluences. The... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ The bike boulevard idea is in the works, and Page Street seems to be the first choice of the bike nuts for that idea. When the city installed some traffic
circles on upper Page St. some years ago, it was forced to take them out when both the neighborhood and the fire department objected. It&#39;s not clear how
turning Page into a bike street would fly with the neighborhood. Recall too that the Bicycle Coalition&#39;s attempt to put a bike lane through Japantown five
years ago was rejected by... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>
marcel:
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if you start with a false analogy, you are going to come to a false conclusion... in this case, that &quot;valencia street&quot; is akin to one unemployed
person in boom times... that is a false analogy... valencia street is a main artery which has been substantially changed with positive results (i notice that
neither you or rob are challenging that)...
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however, we agree on one thing:
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&quot;Im for taking certain streets and eliminating bikes... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  The reason is because they know that it[Muni] simply can not possibly work for those employees. 
</blockquote>And, as the EIR on the Bicycle Plan tells us, <em>Muni is going to work less well because of the Plan</em>. We were vilified by the bike people
and progressives---lot of overlap there---when we got the injunction against the city. As we pointed out at the time, if you take away street parking and
traffic lanes on busy streets, you&#39;re going to screw up traffic for... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ &quot;And the bike Nazis lived happily ever after on Valencia Street.&quot;
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Rob, do you have any idea how well the rhythm of the WishYWD post leads right into the rhythm of your rimshot line. Hillarious. i was reading Wishs post and
then yours.<img src="http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif" alt="image">And youir line has the extra benefit of converting WIshs post
to the satire that it truly is.
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Wish, it took me awhile to analyze the processes of... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ And the bike Nazis lived happily ever after on Valencia Street. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ <br>
a picture of the quintessential &quot;moderate&quot; san francisco would be rob and marcel sittin&#39; in a tree with the soundtrack from king of the hill:
&quot;yup, uh-huh, right&quot;...
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look at valencia street, boys... notice any change from 20 years ago?... yes, you DO notice changes, don&#39;t you... oh, the lights are still timed exactly
the same, so, at 3am you can go from one end to the other without stopping... and 20 years ago, with two lanes in each direction,... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ You&#39;re right, of course, but I&#39;m an old-fashioned guy who persists in the belief that reality and facts matter, which is sometimes still the case in
our courts, which is why the city lost when we sued them on the Bicycle Plan. I still think if the Bicycle Plan was put on the ballot---as the Bicycle
Coalition threatened--woof, woof!---a few years ago---it would be rejected by city voters. Naturally, we&#39;ll never get the chance to vote on this essential
pillar of political... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ Where do you get the idea that the left here even cares whether the City gets bogged up or not. there is not a single thing of City structure, ways and means,
or political leadership that in any way pretends to take any practical or economic elements into consideration. What-so-ever.
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They exist in some cartoon reality in which natural economic laws work by wishing or ignoring. Mostly ignoring. They think if they simply ignore economic
impacts, theyll live to see the Rick Steves... ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ I understand it&#39;s a strain for you to focus on the facts, DG, but you need to come to grips with the information in the Aldax article in the Examiner: The
Bicycle Plan is going to slow down at least nine Muni lines: 9,10, 12, 27, 30, 43, 45, 48, and 52. The city is getting ready to abandon its Transit First
policy for a Bicycles First policy, even though Muni is the only realistic alternative to driving for the overwhelming majority of city residents. ]]></description>

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			<description><![CDATA[ <a target="_blank" href="http://district5diary.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-mitsubishi-car-100-miles-between.html">http://district5diary.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-mitsubishi-car-100-miles-between.html</a>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Then again, when gas gets to be $5 a gallon (and I see no reason why someday it ever wouldn&#39;t) there&#39;s going to be a lot more than traffic screwed up.
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There&#39;s going to be homicide, demostrations, social unrest, etc.
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A whole lot worse than itty bitty bike lanes slowing things down a bit.
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Change is never easy.
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Changing a whole society&#39;s overdependence on the car is not going to be easy at all.
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It will be brutal.
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We&#39;re looking... ]]></description>

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  <h1>City&#39;s bike plan may alter traffic</h1>

  <h3>By: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/bios/41456327.html">Mike Aldax</a>
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