Year: 2009

"Come represent cyclist and pedestrians to make sure the SF Planning Department incorporates the best designs and options in the new Mission Streetscape Plan! Have your say on what you'd like this important street should look like."

"The SFBC Service Station will be out the Golden Gate Bridge with everything you need to ensure a smooth ride: self-service lube & pump and delicious fuel for you!"

"Come out and see a bicycle sharing demonstration in San Francisco! See Montreal’s award-winning bike sharing system up close. Test ride the bikes on car-free JFK drive and learn more about efforts to bring this exciting new mode of transit to San Francisco."

"Special 3-in-1 Ride: Three great neighborhoods; one noble cause. Join the Good Roads Crew as we bring smoother, safer biking to Noe Valley, Glen Park, and West Portal. Start with a coffee buzz on 24th Street – arrive early to check out the Farmers Market across the street – and then power on for a spin through the Village followed by a good long ride to our destination drinks and lunch. Along the way we’ll mark every pothole we see with spray paint – we usually get about 50 -- and report them to 311. First-timers always welcome; we’re a friendly group! Heavy rain cancels."

Agenda.

The Washington Post's Ezra Klein, whose blog is a must-read look at the political dynamics of congressional policy-making, makes an eyebrow-raising assertion in his food column today:

It's the height of summer, the stretch of endless lazy days when -- at least in the American dreamworld -- kids hunt for adventure in packs through the shimmering heat. A time when they make their own fun. A time of bicycles and improvised games and ice cream, of luxuriant boredom and the discovery it makes possible.

Car Restrictions on Market Street “A Bit Closer to Reality”  (SF Gate, Transbay Blog) Wade Crowfoot Leaving SF Mayor’s Office; Will Join the Environmental Defense Fund (SFBG) SF Supervisors Decide Not to Put Streets Bond Measure On the Ballot After All (SF Gate)  San Carlos City Council Votes to Raise Developer Fees For “Traffic Improvement … Continued

"New Orleans is a natural case study for examining the consequences of global climate change up close and personal. Edward Blakely, former recovery chief for the City of New Orleans, focuses on the inter-relationships of ecological, social, economic and environmental re-planning in one of America's most important regions."