Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Dennis Herrera

Judge Issues Order Allowing Ten First-Year Bike Projects to Go Forward

By Bryan Goebel and Michael Rhodes | Nov 25, 2009 | 68 Comments

Under the judge’s order, the MTA can only install 3.7 of the 14 miles of bike lanes it had hoped to paint in the first year. Flickr photo: Doubletee A San Francisco judge issued an order [PDF] modifying the three-year-old bike injunction late Wednesday afternoon, refusing to dissolve it completely, but allowing the "most easily […]

Judge Busch’s Ruling on Whether to Lift Bike Injunction Imminent

By Bryan Goebel | Nov 12, 2009 | No Comments

The moment San Francisco bicyclists and advocates have been waiting for for more than three years is expected any day now: a ruling on whether to lift the bike injunction. Despite indications the ordeal could drag on through spring, there is some optimism Judge Peter J. Busch will unlock the legal handcuffs and allow the […]

City Files List of Bike Projects Likely in First Year After Injunction is Lifted

By Michael Rhodes | Nov 6, 2009 | 5 Comments

Flickr photo: Thomas Hawk The city plans to paint bike lanes in 22 locations within the first year after the Bike Plan injunction is lifted, all of which would be reversible upon a court order, according to a filing [PDF] by the City’s Attorney’s office today. At a hearing on lifting the three-year-old injunction on […]

Judge Busch Could Block New Bike Lanes Through March 2010

By Michael Rhodes | Nov 2, 2009 | 66 Comments

Judge Busch could partially lift the injunction for now, allowing the city to paint sharrows but not bike lanes. Flickr photo: BikePortland.org The injunction that has hung like a pall over San Francisco’s efforts to improve bicycle infrastructure for the city’s growing number of bicyclists will remain for at least another ten days, and could […]

Judge Busch Delays Decision on Lifting SF Bike Injunction

By Bryan Goebel | Nov 2, 2009 | 7 Comments

A San Francisco judge today delayed a decision on lifting the city’s three-year-old bike injunction, and instead ordered both parties to submit briefs by November 12th on his authority to lift the injunction, and then reverse it, if he later determines at a separate hearing that the exhaustive 2,000 page document is not adequate, although […]

City Attorney’s Office Files Motion to Lift Bike Injunction

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 28, 2009 | 36 Comments

Staffers for City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s office deliver the massive filing to the courthouse this afternoon. Photo by Marc Caswell. After more than three frustrating years without any major bike improvements in San Francisco, it appears what bike activists hope will be the final court showdown for the bike injunction is just weeks away. This […]