[Carfreeliving] Will LA leapfrog San Francisco?

[Dave Snyder]

I think it's a mistake to assume that even the most stringent 
enforcement of bike lanes on Market Street will keep cars out all the 
time, and on that busiest of all bike streets, the standard for 
keeping the lanes clear should be very high. The attractions on the 
sidewalk and the lack of car parking virtually guarantee that cars 
will park illegally. The design of the bike facility, therefore, 
should either prevent blockage (through effective physical 
separation) or it should accommodate it and safe bicycling (by 
widening the lane to 12' from its current 8'.

Just my $.02,

Dave



>Yeah, the intermittent Market St. bike lanes (which run past MTA HQ) 
>are embarrassing and discouraging -- between cyclist resignation and 
>vacation distractions the SFBC "AMBLE" effort hasn't gotten much 
>traction yet, even at that I don't know how much a volunteer army 
>can do -- we need a serious commitment from the city/county side to 
>giving Market Street proper bike space, surface quality and 
>enforcement. I hear Chris Daly was talking tough about withholding 
>TA resources from Muni till they start playing along with Market 
>Street Plan implementation, I'd say general squeezing on MTA for 
>Market St action is needed on all fronts, please share your bright 
>ideas . . .
>
>
>	--Andy--
>
>
>At 7:06 PM -0700 8/23/05, Tom Radulovich wrote:
>>LA is creating a continuous bicycle path along the LA river, and 
>>dedicated a new "Bike Park" last month:
>>
>>http://www.smmc.ca.gov/PressRelease/Crystal.pdf
>>
>>Meanwhile, the rutted, discontinuous bike lane on Market Street has 
>>become a parking lane, with no apparent enforcement, which might 
>>just be more dangerous than no lane at all. Aargh!
>>
>>Tom Radulovich
>>tomrad at well.com
>>
>
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