http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/08/20/local-mans-screed-given-credence-by-msm-in-slow-news-week/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:28:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/08/20/local-mans-screed-given-credence-by-msm-in-slow-news-week/comment-page-1/#comment-7939 Lil Mike Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:20:18 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/?p=4178#comment-7939 Rob Anderson is vilified by bike nuts because he is not one of them. He's a somewhat cranky D-5 resident, but one who merely asked that the city fulfill the same CEQA requirements any other development would have to. The bike plan , however well intentioned, will be making a drastic and highly undemocratic change to how we all live and commute. I am a pedestrian, muni and bike rider myself, but I see no reason why the plan can't be vetted properly. If it was a stream or rare toad that was threatened, you can bet the same people screaming against the CEQA in this case would be all over the developers to do one in that case. Thankfully the courts intervened and we are getting a real thorough look at the impacts of the bike plan. Get over it y'all ... if the plan is feasible, eventually we will have more bike lanes. However not without a look at all the impacts...economic, environmental etc. Rob Anderson is vilified by bike nuts because he is not one of them. He’s a somewhat cranky D-5 resident, but one who merely asked that the city fulfill the same CEQA requirements any other development would have to. The bike plan , however well intentioned, will be making a drastic and highly undemocratic change to how we all live and commute. I am a pedestrian, muni and bike rider myself, but I see no reason why the plan can’t be vetted properly. If it was a stream or rare toad that was threatened, you can bet the same people screaming against the CEQA in this case would be all over the developers to do one in that case. Thankfully the courts intervened and we are getting a real thorough look at the impacts of the bike plan. Get over it y’all … if the plan is feasible, eventually we will have more bike lanes. However not without a look at all the impacts…economic, environmental etc.

]]> http://sf.metblogs.com/2008/08/20/local-mans-screed-given-credence-by-msm-in-slow-news-week/comment-page-1/#comment-7929 robanderson Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:58:11 +0000 http://sf.metblogs.com/?p=4178#comment-7929 The quotation you use is not mine but by the woman who wrote the article. The issue is San Francisco's 527-page Bicycle Plan, which proposes taking away traffic lanes and street parking on city streets to make bike lanes. Several years ago the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to pass the Plan, even though the city had done no environmental review, which is required under the most important environmental law in California, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Obviously, if you take away traffic lanes on a busy street, you might make traffic on that street a lot worse, which, under the law, is the sort of thing you must try to calculate before implementing a project. The city is now doing the EIR that they should have done several years ago, since the court agreed with us that one was required. The quotation you use is not mine but by the woman who wrote the article. The issue is San Francisco’s 527-page Bicycle Plan, which proposes taking away traffic lanes and street parking on city streets to make bike lanes. Several years ago the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to pass the Plan, even though the city had done no environmental review, which is required under the most important environmental law in California, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Obviously, if you take away traffic lanes on a busy street, you might make traffic on that street a lot worse, which, under the law, is the sort of thing you must try to calculate before implementing a project. The city is now doing the EIR that they should have done several years ago, since the court agreed with us that one was required.

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