Green Options » newsom http://greenoptions.com/tag/newsom Posts tagged 'newsom' Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:59:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The Grassroots Work Behind the SF Bike Plan Victory http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/07/01/the-grassroots-work-behind-the-sf-bike-plan-victory/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/07/01/the-grassroots-work-behind-the-sf-bike-plan-victory/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:59:11 +0000 Rhonda Winter http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/07/01/the-grassroots-work-behind-the-sf-bike-plan-victory/ San Francisco Bike Coalition member Rick Baraff produced this short video documenting how the grassroots advocacy work of thousands of SFBC members led to last Friday’s historic victory at the SFMTA hearing.

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]]> http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/07/01/the-grassroots-work-behind-the-sf-bike-plan-victory/feed/ Pilot Bike-Sharing Program Announced for San Francisco http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/02/01/pilot-bike-sharing-program-announced-for-san-francisco/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/02/01/pilot-bike-sharing-program-announced-for-san-francisco/#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:00:38 +0000 Rhonda Winter http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/02/01/pilot-bike-sharing-program-announced-for-san-francisco/ San Francisco has just announced that it will go forward with a pilot bike-sharing program to help increase the number of trips taken by bicycle in our city. The program will be implemented by Clear Channel, the operator of SmartBikeDC, currently the only other bike-sharing program in the United States.

a bike-sharing station in Vienna, AustriaOne of many conveniently located bike-sharing stations in Vienna, Austria

Many city residents and bike enthusiasts are very disappointed that the proposed program will initially only have five stations, with roughly a dozen public use bikes at each. The five stations will not be in close proximity to each other, but will be spread across the city in the Financial District, Mission Bay, the Presidio, Civic Center and on the City College campus.

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