Transportation History Geek-Out Bike Ride (EVENT FULL)
From Thinkwalks:
Join SF Bicycle Coalition co-founder, Joel Pomerantz, for a bike ride from the Wiggle to Golden Gate Park to see the history of Transportation in SF unfold. This is a 5 mile easy, relaxed pace ride from Duboce & Church to Ocean Beach. Provide your own bike. Pay what you like. (Free, with a hat to be passed around at the end.)
This ride will include:
- The origin of the Wiggle
- The origin of “sharrow” stencils
- How a multi-cultural Haight neighborhood stopped the freeway
- How extremely horse buggies dominated the Park
- The origin of Driver’s Licenses
- The effects on SF of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway 1 being built
- The first ship that came to SF via the NW Passage over Canada
- How SF started modern globalized shipping
Joel was the first to popularize the Wiggle, was producer of the Duboce Bike Mural (lead artist: Mona Caron), and co-founded many bicycle transportation movement orgs.
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