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Mayor Edwin Lee officially vetoed the “Bike Yield” ordinance yesterday. Without enough votes to override, supporting supervisors will have to figure out a compromise plan, such as a pilot project. The bill's author, Supervisor John Avalos, already prepared for that contingency. Not surprisingly, Avalos was frustrated with the Mayor's veto. "SFPD has focused traffic enforcement on places where bicycling is common instead of on high collision corridors. It is clear we have a ways to go with our Vision Zero efforts," he said in an email to Streetsblog.

This week Margaret McCarthy began a six-month term as the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition's Interim Executive Director. She replaces Noah Budnick, who resigned last year. She starts with the SFBC in the midst of new and ongoing projects and, perhaps, a touch of residual tension after its first contested board elections. McCarthy is not a new face at SFBC, where she worked as Volunteer Coordinator and Program Director. Streetsblog sat down with her at SFBC's new digs on Market Street to talk about the police, the politics, the plans, and the future of cycling in San Francisco.

Near the end of 2015, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan to grow Bay Area Bike Share from 700 to 7,000 bikes. That means the City of San Francisco itself will go from having 350 to 4,500 bikes, giving it the largest number of shared bikes per capita in the nation.

A Nielsen survey shows that 37 percent of Americans list “staying fit and healthy” as a top New Year's resolution. “Losing weight” is close behind it, at 32 percent. That's not much of a departure from last year. And, sadly, we'll probably see something else repeated in 2016: most people won't stick with it. In fact, roughly eight percent will keep those resolutions throughout the year.

Last March Facebook completed its new open-plan headquarters building on its campus in Menlo Park. CNBC put together a video tour. Buildings are nice. But of Mark Zuckerberg's 12,000 employees, roughly half work in Menlo Park, with growth expected. How do they get to and from work?

On a rainy morning in Preservation Park in Oakland, I met with Andrew Faulkner and Jonathan Fearn, advocates with “Connect Oakland,” to discuss their organization's vision to remove the 980 freeway, which sits between downtown and West Oakland.

The "Bike Yield Law" proposed by Supervisor John Avalos is poised to be approved by the Board of Supervisors.

SFPD traffic citations issued for "Focus on the Five" have hit an all-time high of 32 percent, as the SF Examiner reported earlier this week.