Hello! Did somebody here order a Regional Transportation Plan?

We should encourage people to seek modes other than the automobile. The experience of other cities show that setting aside space/providing infrastructure for bicyclists encourages more people to cycle, ultimately with the goal of setting a more appropriate balance between modes.

Bicycling is, it’s true, not as popular as driving or transit. You could even argue that topography will pose an additional barrier in SF that is not faced in other cities. Certainly, many of us do not want to or are physically unable to bicycle. But it also seems quite clear we have not hit the limit of potential bicycle mode share in SF. Bicycle mode share has increased despite the lack of new lanes in the past few years, which suggests that demand has not been satiated.

Respectfully disagree. The bike plan as implemented will increase auto congestion and thus pollution in addition to slowing Muni bus service even more. The many are being asked to sacrifice to benefit the few.

And those hundreds of pages are just a summary of how many more studies and surveys and computer models and tests… It’s a shame we’ve spent the last three years on this when during the same time period Barcelona launched their bike sharing program (Bicing, run by Clear Channel) which as of it’s second anniversary this May was being used by 9% of the population per day.