Apparently, Herrera is once bit twice shy as applies to bicycle and transit related advice. The political pressure applied by advocates to evade CEQA by declaring a general rule exclusion on the Bike Plan gave the CA the room to shift polarities and replace succumbing to political pressure with a very conservative approach to avoid future exposure.

Their mayor has also built a business from the ground up rather than relying on gifts of capitalization showered down from the Gettys, and as such has more confidence in his ability to execute than our silver spoon hair gel boy, St. Gavin of the Green Press Release ditherer.

In my dealings with Deputy City Attorneys, there still lingers residual anger over events that led to the injunction, with some CA's blaming ALL cyclists for the stupidity of the advocates. There are emails in evidence which lay an e-trail of those advocates who support taking the wrong path, a path which ended up costing 5 years and cyclist injury.

-marc

NYC is getting brought up a lot in contrast to San Francisco, I'd be interested in more coverage here of what's guiding those changes in New York. How do they get around the endless political debates, studies, the differences in state laws that seem to hamper the same kind of progress here and what's being done about it.