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Mexican Residents Stage Sit-In to Halt Destruction of Local Trees

Rhonda Winter — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:24:02 +0000

Much like the Lorax, San Francisco student Damaris Parra speaks for the trees.

Several dozen residents of San Francisco (also known as San Pancho) Mexico staged a spontaneous sit-in yesterday in the middle of their main thoroughfare to halt the destruction of hundreds of the city’s trees and the replacement of permeable paving stones with flood-causing impervious concrete. Local school children were joined by business owners and many other residents of the town who simply sat down in the middle of the road to stop the heavy machinery from destroying their street and native trees.

Hundreds Rally in Support of Market Street Bike Lane

Rhonda Winter — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:50:52 +0000

San Francisco is often depicted as a bastion of enlightened progressive hippie vegans on bicycles, or sometimes as a queer and glittering island, raft with Prius-driving smug self-righteous liberals who rapture in the smell of their own farts. If only that were true. All of us who live here know that the local reality is a bit more of a curious and complicated dichotomy.

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Hundreds Rally in Support of Market Street Bike Lane

Rhonda Winter — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:38:46 +0000

San Francisco is often depicted as a bastion of enlightened progressive hippie vegans on bicycles, or sometimes as a queer and glittering island, raft with Prius-driving smug self-righteous liberals who rapture in the smell of their own farts. If only that were true. All of us who live here know that the local reality is a bit more of a curious and complicated dichotomy.

Even though our city has produced some progressive public officials who have pioneered visionary policy, such as Tom Ammiano’s ground-breaking universal health care plan, Healthy San Francisco, and Mayor Newsom’s marriage equality leadership, we are still a somewhat flawed municipality. Our major daily newspapers range from embarrassingly conservative to rabidly right wing, many of our citizens are still homeless, and our city is desperate for infrastructure improvements, such as a sorely needed safe, interconnected bike network. Although San Francisco has fostered many effective transportation advocacy organizations, like the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, it is also home to the occasionally misguided SFMTA Board of Directors. The SF Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors recently voted unanimously to remove a crucial bike lane and concrete safety island from Market Street at Octavia; their decision was made without any public comment or input from related advocacy groups.

Green Options » bike lane

Mexican Residents Stage Sit-In to Halt Destruction of Local Trees

Much like the Lorax, San Francisco student Damaris Parra speaks for the trees.

Hundreds Rally in Support of Market Street Bike Lane

>> Read the rest of this story on EcoLocalizer

Hundreds Rally in Support of Market Street Bike Lane

Hundreds of people rally to save a crucial bike lane in the heart of San Francisco