Day: July 8, 2009
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Bicycle Film Festival 2009
"The Bicycle Film Festival returns with concerts, parties, art shows,
bike polo, and of course lots of bike films. This year the Bicycle Film
Festival will visit both San Francisco and Oakland."
July 8, 2009
Enrique Peñalosa Urges SF to Embrace Pedestrians and Public Space
Celebrated Colombian urbanist and former mayor of Bogotá Enrique Peñalosa told a standing room audience of more than one hundred people at the San Francisco Public Library last night that San Francisco can be friendly to cars or to people, but not both. Further, he argued that there is no fundamental technical reason why streets have to function only as free-flowing arteries to move cars, but that the state of our cities in America is a political decision that we can overturn and that American's perceptions of what is possible in cities will follow suit.
July 8, 2009
Riding the Broadband Superhighway to Work
This morning, I'm making use of a mass transit system while sitting at my desk at home.
July 8, 2009
Today’s Headlines
Mayor Newsom, Supervisors Back Parking Meters in Golden Gate Park (SF Examiner) BART Labor Talks Continue; Unions Avoid Issuing Strike Notice (KCBS, BCN via CBS5) Mission Loc@l Writer Spends 24 Hours on the 14-Mission SF Gate: “Projects Begin to Emerge for Upper Market” More on Legislators Caving in to Peninsula NIMBYs over High-Speed Rail (CHSRB) … Continued
July 8, 2009