Comments on: Judge Busch Delays Decision on Lifting SF Bike Injunction

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:50:11 +0000

Someone needs to do an EIR on how much time and energy has been wasted on this superfluous approval process. Its unfortunate that we have come to regard the EIR as a legitimate step in this process- what exactly is the environmental impact to striping lanes? We do it every day.

Not having informed, progress oriented city officials poses a larger challenge to living in San Francisco than anything.

By: David Melamed

David Melamed — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:15:48 +0000

Does the bicycle coalition / community have any lawyers assisting? I wonder if it would be useful to sue (countersue?) for violation of civil rights and discrimination and harassment against a class of people (bicyclists).
That such broad the use of ‘injunctive relief’ is so clearly beyond what is called for by alleged possible CEQA issues.

By: gary groff

gary groff — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:43:53 +0000

Enough is enough. Collectively, there must be 10,000 hours of research, petitions, meetings, environmental studies…to get some bike lanes striped and a few bike racks installed?

The costs of the approval process will likely outweigh the cost of the actual projects at this point.

We’re talking about bike lanes and bike racks right? CRAZY.

By: Sean Benward

Sean Benward — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:29:55 +0000

It seems that the judge has his own ax to grind with cyclists.

By: Leanne

Leanne — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:00:15 +0000

What IS this??? Is there any end in sight for these preposterous games? This is beyond ridiculous. Make a DECISION already. You couldn’t have requested these briefs last month? If you knew you were going to need these briefs to reach a decision, why wait until the decision day to request them? And this little item does not sound promising; the judge wants to ensure that he’ll have leeway to “order the MTA to reverse bike projects if he later sides with the plaintiff’s weak contentions the EIR doesn’t comply with CEQA.”

Ummm…cart before the horse, judge?

Round and round we go and where she stops…

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:53:43 +0000

This process seems totally incoherent. And why would Judge Busch need to know which projects are going forward immediately? Is it an indication that he has strong feelings about specific locations or categories of projects? Is this legal, political, or both?

By: John Murphy

John Murphy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:54:58 +0000

Was this ruling marginally predictable? If so, why wasn’t the city ready (of course then Rob would be able to beg to get himself ready).

The judge has to be reasonably familiar with this case. Why did we dick around for 3 months, show up to a hearing, so he could give these orders? Couldn’t he do that offline and save a lot of time and aggravation? Could the city have approached him to get an expectation of what was up?

I guess this is why I’m a silly engineer instead of a Lawyer.