the bikescape podcast

Last week San Francisco’s cyclists woke up to find out that the city’s bicycle plan , a comprehensive road map to an integrated bike network had been put on hold by a judge’s temporary injunction in response to a lawsuit by Citizens for Adequate Review. (C.A.R.) How could we arrive a time when a healthy, sustainable, and environmentally sound plan to provide transportation choice could run aground because of lack of environmental review? Could it be because the metrics we use to arrive at a conclusion are biased toward the convenience of drivers? We go to three experts to get some insight – Andy Thornley , Program director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Rajiv Bhatia, Director of Occupational and Environmental Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health Josh Hart, former SFBC program director and member of Transportation Authority consulting team Listen to the podcast or go to Bikescape in itunes Rajiv wrote this article (PDF) about level of service standards. He also mentioned Sally Cairns who wrote this article (also a pdf) about where traffic goes when capacity is reduced, sort of the inverse of induced traffic, or the build the roads and the cars will come theory of traffic. San Franciscos transit first policy is enshrined in the city charter. Check out the sfbcs LOS page. Cyclecides Pedal Monster is coming... July 21-23

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