Comments on: Good Roads? http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/02/12/good-roads/ Covering San Francisco's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy Thornley http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/02/12/good-roads/comment-page-1/#comment-3669 Andy Thornley Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:47:33 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=1543#comment-3669 Good stuff, I'd just been pondering the transitive and ever-mutable "reality" of our streets, not just the far-from-permanent pavement but the configuration of surfaces and lanes, uses and users -- looking at Market Street in particular, the "way it is" keeps moving and there's never a fixed truth. This is some of what makes the SF Bike Plan EIR so ridiculous, the mistaken premise that traffic volumes (car/ped/bike/transit/livestock) are fixed or predictable, the mistaken premise that the street is a fixed and permanent thing in all ways, the very mistaken premise that some paint on the asphalt is "forever" or even semi-permanent -- it's all reversable, it's all mutable . . . By the way, your friends at the SF Bicycle Coalition carry on the gospel of Good Roads, dig it (or patch it): http://sfbike.org/?goodroads And to loop back to the start of this essay, folks should know that the Prelinger Library has a great set of bound copies of the Good Roads Magazine from the 1890s into the 20th century in their holdings, this wonderful resource is open to the curious public, treat yourself: http://home.earthlink.net/~alysons/library.html Good stuff, I’d just been pondering the transitive and ever-mutable “reality” of our streets, not just the far-from-permanent pavement but the configuration of surfaces and lanes, uses and users — looking at Market Street in particular, the “way it is” keeps moving and there’s never a fixed truth. This is some of what makes the SF Bike Plan EIR so ridiculous, the mistaken premise that traffic volumes (car/ped/bike/transit/livestock) are fixed or predictable, the mistaken premise that the street is a fixed and permanent thing in all ways, the very mistaken premise that some paint on the asphalt is “forever” or even semi-permanent — it’s all reversable, it’s all mutable . . .

By the way, your friends at the SF Bicycle Coalition carry on the gospel of Good Roads, dig it (or patch it):

http://sfbike.org/?goodroads

And to loop back to the start of this essay, folks should know that the Prelinger Library has a great set of bound copies of the Good Roads Magazine from the 1890s into the 20th century in their holdings, this wonderful resource is open to the curious public, treat yourself:

http://home.earthlink.net/~alysons/library.html

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