Throughout this summer the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is hosting a series of free bike-related movie screenings downtown at 7th and Mission Streets, right across from the Good Hotel. Once a month the hotel’s barren parking lot is transformed into a festive and inviting public space, where hundreds of people gather for free entertainment, socializing, and to eat tasty locally made snacks.

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That was one of the many probing questions that the visionary former mayor of Bogotá Colombia, Enrique Peñalosa, asked a packed auditorium in San Francisco last night. How do we define what makes a good city, what is our criteria? What makes an urban environment desirable and livable, and how do we judge the quality of life? What is socially and environmentally sustainable?

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The Board heard hours of impassioned public comment in support of implementing the city’s desperately needed Bike Network; they voted unanimously this afternoon to approve the Bike Plan EIR and finally adopt the complete Bike Plan.

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SFBC Executive Director Leah Shahum inspires scores of bike activists and supporters.

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My favorite Bayview corner sandwich shop, Upper Crust Deli on Third Street in San Francisco, has just started carrying fresh seasonal produce. They are now selling a variety of melons, potatoes, apples, bananas and many other healthy fruit and vegetable options.

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Today San Francisco’s Land Use and Economic Development Committee just announced that the city’s long-awaited Bike Plan will finally begin to be implemented this June. This is incredibly great news for the thousands of bicyclists who commute in our city every day. As you may already know, the city-wide Bike Plan has been held up for nearly three years by a fatuous lawsuit and injunction, which has prevented the city from making any Bike Network improvements whatsoever, even something as basic as installing a simple bike rack.

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One 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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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.

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

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