Comments on: LA Kids Tell City Hall How to Improve Biking — Via YouTube http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/11/06/la-kids-tell-city-hall-how-to-improve-biking-%e2%80%94-via-youtube/ 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: Nick http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/11/06/la-kids-tell-city-hall-how-to-improve-biking-%e2%80%94-via-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-53651 Nick Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:03:33 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=80711#comment-53651 Bike plans should not take a generation to implement as has been the case in San Francisco. To put this in perspective, imagine it is 1996 and a 21 year old bicyclist is hearing about a plan for a bike lanes on 5th Street for the very first time. Now it is almost 2010 and that same person would be 35 years old and there is still no paint on pavement. And today happens to be the 11 year anniversary of the Board of Supervisor's approval of a 1 year trial of bike lanes on Valencia Street (11/6/98). So effectively the Valencia St lanes turned 10 years old today! Bike plans should not take a generation to implement as has been the case in San Francisco. To put this in perspective, imagine it is 1996 and a 21 year old bicyclist is hearing about a plan for a bike lanes on 5th Street for the very first time. Now it is almost 2010 and that same person would be 35 years old and there is still no paint on pavement.

And today happens to be the 11 year anniversary of the Board of Supervisor’s approval of a 1 year trial of bike lanes on Valencia Street (11/6/98). So effectively the Valencia St lanes turned 10 years old today!

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