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Old Bike Gloves Find New Homes
By Fran Taylor, Member Walk San Francisco, Jul 14, 2009
Bicycle gloves serve their owners well, helping them climb the City’s steep hills, dodge buses and taxis, and endure the daily slog to work. The padded gloves with cut-off fingers are not a frill or fashion statement for the serious cyclist. Besides protecting the hands, they may also help prevent lateral epicondylitis, or “tennis elbow,” by cushioning the repeated whacks a cyclist takes going over San Francisco’s bumps, tracks, and potholes.
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Sunday Streets Comes to the Mission
By Fran Taylor, Member Walk San Francisco, Jun 13, 2009
Streets in the Mission will either open up or close down this summer, depending on your mode of travel. Walkers, skaters, and bicyclists will luxuriate in unfettered access to a route between Rolph Park and Dolores Park on two Sundays this summer. Drivers will have to find another way. June 7 and July 19 are the two days that the roving celebration of self-propulsion known as Sunday Streets will come to the Mission. Earlier events have hugged the eastern waterfront, and the final two Sundays later this summer will hit the ocean side of the City. The Mission Sundays are the only ones to be located entirely in a dense residential neighborhood.
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Muni Cuts Betray Promise of TEP
By Fran Taylor, Member of Walk SF, May 13, 2009
Muni riders at community workshops of the Transit Effectiveness Project last year were reassured at every meeting that improving reliability would be the first step toward any changes. The TEP process involved tremendous effort in soliciting opinions, crunching data, and rejiggering routes, and the results promised a new beginning for Muni. Now, riders face a downward spiral, and the word reliability has been forgotten.
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Bike Lane Frenzy Ushers in Spring
By Fran Taylor, Member of Walk SF, Apr 16, 2009
Lasting longer than the siege of Leningrad, the San Francisco court injunction barring bicycle improvements has passed its 1000th day. No one starved to death or resorted to eating dogs, as did millions of Russians encircled for 872 days by Nazi troops during World War II, but the judicial blockade has created pent-up demand and energy. In anticipation of a judge’s ruling that will thaw the injunction freeze, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition kicked off the campaign for a basic network of bike lanes throughout the city with a mass meeting in February. Hundreds of cyclists listened to a brief overview, then broke up into smaller groups by neighborhood.
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Transit Users Fall Under Wheels of Bailout/Budget Hit-and-Run
By Fran Taylor, Member of Walk SF, Mar 20, 2009
Transit ridership is rising, global warming is speeding up, and sprawl development has led to foreclosure and heartbreak. Encouraging the first development could address the other two. The various budgets and bailouts we’ve been clobbered with this year, however, suggest we should instead slash funding for buses and trains. Start with California’s governor and legislature, pause at local government, then move on to the Feds, and the message is clear: The same policies that got us in this mess will be rewarded, while transportation ideas that could solve multiple problems at once must beg for scraps.
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