Update on the Bike Plan in District 5

Friday, 14 August 2009 20:07

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Great news! After three long years without any new bike improvements in San Francisco (because of an injunction against the Bike Plan), the MTA gave legislative approval to 45 Bike Network Projects on June 26th. On August 4th, the Board of Supervisors approved the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the Bike Plan. Now the City Attorney will present the EIR and ask the judge to lift the injunction, and hopefully in another month or two, we'll finally see some new bike improvements in the City!

We won five bike projects in District 5: a left turn lane on Scott approaching Fell, a bike traffic signal at Fell & Masonic, an improved traffic signal at Page & Stanyan, intersection improvements at Lincoln & 7th Ave., and bike lanes and sharrows on 7th Ave.

Unfortunately, two major proposed bike lanes in District 5 were not approved by the MTA: Masonic (from Fell to Geary) and McAllister (from Masonic all the way to Market). The Masonic bike lane is on hold while traffic calming plans are considered. The McAllister bike lane didn't pass due to MUNI's concern with minimum lane width, so this project needs more planning. For the Google Earth geeks out there, you can download the KMZ file pictures above here: SFBikeMap-District5.kmz. For more information on the Bike Plan in District 5 or to get involved, visit the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition website: http://www.sfbike.org/?d5