[Carfreeliving] SFBAC special meeting 4/6 on Bike Planning and Env. Review

[A P Thornley]

[ sorry for bombardment, if this is your second or third copy, bits 
are so cheap and I want to make sure there are no hard feelings among 
my colleagues, present or absent, please come and represent . . . ]


Hello --

A final reminder -- the San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee, the 
SF Board of Supervisors' citizen advisory committee for bicycling 
matters in the city, has scheduled a special meeting this Wednesday, 
April 6, to review Bike Planning and Environmental Review, towards 
legislative reform of LOS ("Level of Service") as a planning metric, 
understood to be an obstacle to safer, more accessible streets for 
bikes (and peds and transit and seniors and humans in general):

	SF Bicycle Advisory Committee
	April 6, 2005, 6:15 PM
	City Hall, Room 263

The agenda is available here:

   http://sf-now.com/sf-bike/BAC_agenda_20050406.pdf

After a brief introduction on CEQA, LOS, and bike planning in SF, 
recapping what the BAC has learned in the past year and a half, we 
will turn to presentations from agencies, advocates, and the public 
concerning 1) problems caused by current practice and 2) 
recommendations and potential solutions. After each presentation 
we'll take questions and comments from the BAC and those Supervisors 
and Commisisoners present. We will allow 4 minutes to each individual 
and group/agency for statements and presentations; everyone gets four 
minutes to make his report, experts, citizens, and advocates (you may 
speak as an individual or as the representative of a group, one turn 
per person, please).

We've already been talking with some of you about your presentations, 
and encourage everyone with information to share, whether research, 
opinion, or comment, to bring it to us at this meeting. We know we're 
not going to settle the question in one evening, just hoping to get 
the question properly phrased:

Is LOS a real obstacle to safer streets and calmer neighborhoods, and 
how can we get more of the SF Bike Network completed (along with 
other improvements to public health and safety) where LOS and 
environmental review are indeed complicating factors?

If you haven't contacted us, don't worry, we'll take everyone who 
comes, but do let us know if you have a Powerpoint deck or other 
material and we'll try to insure that it works (again, four minutes 
please).

Here's a collection of resource and background material on bike 
planning and LOS presented to the BAC or discovered by us during the 
past year and a half:

   http://sf-now.com/sf-bike/#los

The SFCTA LOS SAR, essential reading on the topic, is linked there, 
as are several other valuable documents and web resources. If you 
find something for which there is a newer or better edition please 
let us know; of course we welcome submissions of other documents, 
research, comments, et cetera, as you might feel appropriate to our 
survey.

Thanks for your attention and participation, we look forward to a 
productive and thoughtful session and hope to see you Wednesday 
evening.



Andy Thornley, Secretary and Dist. 1 representative
San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee
http://sfgov.org/bac