[Carfreeliving] BoS Land Use -- Market/Octavia freeway ramp

[Bert Hill]

Josh; Great interview in this month's issue of 7x7.  It is great to see the
real heros of urban planning being regarded.  Now that you are famous, I
almost feel bad about making your life difficult on bicycle route planning
in the Rincon area.  Next thing, you'll be in the 'Scene & Heard' section.
Bert

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the right turn is even greater than a bike or ped issue -- it's about
encouraging and facilitating the use of Market as a freeway on-ramp. If the
right-turn movement is allowed, this won't be one or two incidental cars
and hour, this will be hundreds of cars queuing on market street that
aren't there now, that will not just back up across the bike lane, but into
the travel lane, and onto the F-line tracks. All these cars now use Duboce
(not a transit route, not a bike route), and have been doing so for 50
years. Why invite all these cars to stay on Market for two or three more
blocks and queue on Market Street, where the impacts are 100 times greater?
-j



                                                                           
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Good people of all modes, but especially you Pedestrian Advocates --

Tomorrow (Weds 11/2) the BoS Land Use Committee will be hearing from
DPT and others on the Market/Octavia freeway ramp, a status report,
what's dangerous, what needs fixing. The banned right turn off EB
Market onto the freeway has been made by some into a bike lane issue,
but much more than that it's a pedestrian issue -- no matter where
the bike lane is positioned (against the curb, to the left of a turn
pocket), pedestrians are imperiled by the fast downhill careless turn
onto the freeway (the most common pedestrian injury/fatality? seems
like there's a superlative statistic I've heard about fast turns and
injuries) . . .

So it'd be great to get a few eloquent pedestrians up for comment at
tomorrow's meeting. It starts at 1:00 pm (City Hall, Room 263) but
the Octavia Market Freeway item probably won't come up till an hour
or two into the meeting (it's #5, the last item):

     http://sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=13956

And if you can't come, please send Sup. Dufty a note
(Bevan.Dufty at sfgov.org) . . .


Use your bell,


             --Andy--


==== from the SFBC Bike Bulletin, pardon any repetition =====

LAND USE COMMITTEE HEARS MARKET/OCTAVIA/FREEWAY CONCERNS WEDS 11/2

The new central freeway ramp at Market and Octavia has been open for
almost two months, but that gnarly intersection is still missing some
key safety features to help assure pedestrians and cyclists of safe
passage along the street. This Wednesday (11/2) the Board of
Supervisors' Land Use Committee (1:00 pm, City Hall, Room 263) will
conduct a hearing on the Market/Octavia freeway ramp, what's been
done so far and what's left to do. We'll be there to emphasize the
city's commitment to keeping Market Street a transit/ped/bike space
and not a freeway feeder route, and ask that colored bike lane
pavement be installed across mouth of the freeway, as recommended in
the Board's August 2004 resolution banning the eastbound right turn
onto the freeway. (You may notice that a new bike lane has been
striped along a key block on eastbound Market St. near the new
freeway ramp, but it's not a colored bike lane as it should be to
draw more attention to this tricky area.)

Please come to this hearing if you can, and contact Supervisor Dufty
(Bevan.Dufty at sfgov.org) and let him know that you want colored bike
pavement ~now~ as part of the safety treatments for this intersection.

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