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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on March 6, 2010 at 7:02pm

Hi Greg! What a neat idea!

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Permalink Reply by payton on August 13, 2010 at 6:13am

Hmm, I don't share your skepticism of whether Big Government could actually help. For instance:
- There might be an intersection where a lot of cyclists are making similar turns. Maybe a dedicated signal for cyclists would make sense there.
- There could be a little shortcut route down side streets that's really popular with some people, but that a new cyclist might not know about. Planners could add it to the bike route map and change some things to make biking it easier (add bike lanes or sharrows, change the direction of stop signs, calm traffic by creating a bike boulevard).
- There might be a street where a lot of cyclists are going the wrong way, or hopping a curb. A simple change like this could make all of that safe and legal.

Currently, the public involvement process for creating a bike map requires that people take time out of their day, think about the few bike route issues that really bother them, and write them up. Plenty of people don't get heard at all, a few people get heard too much, and smaller but still significant problems just might not ever register at all -- and that's not good in a democracy where each of us is supposed to have an equal voice. By using a program like Cycle Tracks, people can provide this same kind of information literally without going out of their way.

"Californians' love for the automobile" has nothing to do with it. San Francisco even has a "transit and bikes shall take precedence over cars and parking" law.

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