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Lety léty I. | 22 comments (19 topical, 3 editorial, 0 pending)
Havel to pretahnul (none / 0) (#17)
Boutros el Uam (squawbumzavinachorkapostateckacom) 15.11.2005 14:51:28 MET
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tam mi prave chybaju tie specifika. Nevim jak to probihalo where rubber meets the road.

Jinak souhlas - ono je to tu v emeryce ale asi trochu jinak. Politicke strany nejsou to same, co v Evrope, spis jen spolky na vyber penez na volebni kampane.
A ti zahradkari apod. tu maji asi trochu vic politicke moci.
U nas v SaFra je neobycejne silna Bicycle Coalition. Vysledkem je pozoruhodny kopanec:
Strhli jednu cast dalnice (mimochodem my jsme snad jedine mesto na svete, kde se za poslednich 20 let zborilo vic dalnic nez postavilo, i kdyz pravda je, ze mnohe strzeni prospelo vyhledum, mnohe vsak velmi zkomplikovalo dopravu) a postavili nove najezdy a sjezdy s funglovym bulevarem lemovanym zeleni. Sice to trvalo asi sto let a zakazky musely jit prednostne firmam vlastnenymi hendikapovanymi afro-americkymi lesbickami apod., ale vysledek je docela pekny. Najezd i sjezd konci kolmo na Market Street, hlavni tepnu napric mestem. Kdyz jedu od nas z predmesti pres Twin Peaks, kousek za Castro bych mohl zahnout doprava z Market a sup, jsem hned na najezdu a upaluji na Bay Bridge (kde ted predelavaji cely SaFra konec za plneho provozu, to je taky pochoutka). JENZE! Na Market Street je u chodniku pruh pro cyklisty. Bicycle Coalition si vymohla, ze zatacet doprava na dalnici, jak normalni prirozenost veli, je nebezpecne cyklistum a u marxistickeho predsedy mestske rady (ktery auto nevlastnil a jezdil vetsinou mestskou dopravou) si vymohli, ze se tam da zakaz zataceni vpravo. Predseda Matt Gonzales ale nebyl hloupy, tak to schvalil na 6 mesicu zkusebniho provozu.
Mezitim prohral volby na starostu (i kdyz jsem ho volil), za starostu mame ted naprosto neschopneho hezouna, ktery je zcela useless a ma 80% favorable rating - to ukazuje moudrost vsech tech pollu popularity a jejich souvislost se skutecnymi udalostmi a nejak se zapomnelo, ze zakaz mel byt jenom na pul roku. A postavili na roh hezky parcik s lavickami a palmami, aby meli homelesove kde smazit - pochybuji, ze mlade maminky a duchodci budou vysedavat na lavicce u sjezdu z dalnice ;-).
Takze ted je humbuk, lidi prskaji, ze se naprosto nesmyslne musi objizdet bloky, misto toho, aby se jednoduse zahnulo doprava a nejspis se cca 300 tisicovy parcik zrusi a postavi se tam najezd, ktery byl v puvodnim navrhu.

Tady neco v anglictine:

The anti-car conspiracy...a fifth column in city government of mid-level planners and sundry bureaucrats who are possessed of an ideology about San Francisco becoming a carless society...One part of this crowd is the Bicycle Mafia---bicycle enthusiasts have cowed city planning and the Board of Supervisors into illegally changing the city's Master Plan and changing traffic routes in favor of bicycles without public notice...eliminating parking wherever possible, changing street designs, etc. ("Anti-Car Conspiracy," Argonaut, Dec. 2005)
- tohle napsal Warren Hinckle, byvaly vydavatel casopisu Ramparts, spoluzakladatel hnuti New Left ze sedesatych let minuleho stoleti.

Actually, "conspiracy" isn't the right word for how the bike zealots in SF operate, and "Bicycle Mafia" is hyperbole, more or less. Instead, the bike zealots have essentially won the battle of ideas by default at all levels of city government, including the Board of Supervisors---so far, at least. But the counter-attack is well underway, led by, among others, yours truly at District 5 Diary, articulating the notion that cyclists are taking up way too much room in the city's political life---and, increasingly, on its streets. Hinckle makes an important point when he characterizes these folks as being as much anti-car as they are pro-bike. In any event, their strategy is to make it as difficult and expensive as possible to drive and park a car in San Francisco---raising parking fees, meter fees, parking fines, removing parking whenever and wherever possible, especially in new housing units, even though city law sensibly requires that builders provide one new parking space for each new housing unit built. They didn't really have to do much convincing to get the Board of Supervisors to vote unanimously to make the 400-page Bicycle Plan part of the General Plan---not the "Master Plan"---because there was no debate, except for the negative input they got from me and a few other folks just before they held the lemming-like, 11-0 vote.

But the anti-car bike zealots haven't really "cowed" city government as much as they have completely co-opted and occupied it with like-minded folks. Until recently they have had things pretty much their way, taking away traffic lanes for bicycle lanes on Polk St. and San Jose/Guererro in the Mission.

But the Bicycle Coalition is getting some stiff opposition to their attempt to convert traffic lanes into bike lanes on Cesar Chavez St, an east-west thoroughfare that runs from the freeway in the Mission to Noe Valley (see "Bikes vs. Cars on Chavez," Carolyn Jones, SF Chronicle, Oct. 7, 2005). And their attempt to foist bike lanes on Japantown on Post St. was firmly rejected by that community a few years ago: "The [Bicycle] Coalition has been pushing its plans to re-stripe Post Street...despite the community's continued opposition." (Japantown Task Force newsletter, Summer 2003 http://www.jtowntaskforce.org/)

And there was the short-lived traffic circle on upper Page St. that actually made the intersection more dangerous for everyone.

But the most serious and ongoing bad PR for the bike fanatics is the new freeway ramp across from Octavia Blvd. on upper Market St. It turns out, so to speak, that you can't make the logical right turn from Market St. onto the freeway, because last year the bike zealots got Matt Gonzalez to carry legislation to make sure motorists have to detour in a wide circle and enter the ramp from Octavia Blvd: "City traffic officials didn't buy into their[Bicycle Coalition's] demand for a right-turn ban. So the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and others took their case to the Board of Supervisors, where then-board President Matt Gonzalez carried legislation in August 2004 to ban the right turn..." (see "Who's in the Right," Matier & Ross, SF Chronicle, Sept. 21, 2005)

The "legislation" was actually a resolution by the Board of Supervisors (http://www.sfgov.org/, resolution 0508-04, Aug. 17, 2004), but evidently it was enough to get the job done---and to get it done with seeming permanency, even though, according to the resolution, the no-right turn ban is supposed to be only a six-month trial, during which the Dept. of Parking and Traffic is to collect data:

Further resolved, that the Department shall collect data related to traffic, bicycle, and pedestrian safety and flow during the first six months of the opening of the freeway ramp, and shall make adjustments to and shall implement any additional traffic control devices and signage as necessary to maximize the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists through the intersection, and the Department shal report its findings to the Board of Supervisors at the end of that period.

We'll track this and look for the report from DPT to the BOS around March of next year. One thing the study won't be able to quantify, however, is the sheer number of city motorists they're pissing off with this foolishness. But the Bicycle Coalition, in the person of spokesman Andrew Thornley, is unrepentant and even wants to escalate the punishment for motorists who try to turn right onto the freeway with "strict enforcement with pretty harsh fines." (Matier & Ross)

This is the same Andrew Thornley who told the SF Bay Guardian earlier this year that "We've done all the easy things so far. Now we need to take space from cars." ("The Slow Lane: In Bike-Friendly SF: Why Do Cars Still Come First?" SF Bay Guardian, Steven T. Jones, May 18) "Take space from cars" means converting traffic lanes into bike lanes, and eliminating parking spaces whenever possible.

This kind of arrogance is the political Achilles heel of the Bicycle Coalition in a city that, according to the DMV, has 464,903 registered autos, trucks, and motorcycles, with more than 6000 new vehicles registered every year. It's another of those self-defeating "circular firing squads," in Bob Haaland's phrase, that progressives like to form in San Francisco.

A politicke bitvy pokracuji dale, k obveseleni zbytku emeryky, pro kterou je SaFra vetsinou veselou operetou, kterou prekonava jen slapstick groteska v Berserkeley...


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    Prokop (pkrasny@aol.com) 15.11.2005 15:05:26 MET
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    byla narazka na slavny projev Milouse Jakese, ale to jen na okraj:)

    S temi dalnicemi jsi mi pripomnel sjezd/najezd na 270 Gaithersburg.    270 je ctyrproudovka spojujici predmesti a satelitni mestecka s DC a tento sjezd mel najezd nejdriv a sjezd az za nim, takze se tam krizili dva proudy aut.  Nikdy jsem tam nevidel zadnou bouracku, ale   stejne to pred lety prestaveli a dali sjezd pul mile vejs.  Porovnej se smrtonosnym toboganem na Barrandovskem moste, kde se omezuji na dopravni znaceni - pres prokazatelnou nebezpecnost sjezdu.

    Nebo 495 a 95 na jih od DC - Mixing Bowl - tamtudy jsi zrejme loni projizdel.   Cela rekonstrukce, az bude hotova, snizi prumerny cas commute o nejakych 20 sekund.

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