[Carfreeliving] Congratulations on passing the bicycle plan

[Dave Snyder]

Congratulations to everyone for finishing the bicycle plan update! 
The document gives us everything we need to implement a vision that 
will entice San Franciscans as a whole to take 10% of their trips by 
bicycle! But the plan by itself won't mean anything without our hard 
work, as advocates, to build support among the MTA Board, 
Supervisors, the Mayor, and our neighborhood organizations.

I know that Oliver Gajda, the project manager, spent many long hours 
working on the plan when he probably would have preferred to actually 
be implementing improvements to our bicycling environment. Now, he 
and his colleagues there are free to focus on implementation 
full-time!

Our next steps are to work with them, the, to implement the plan and 
the rest of our visions. I'm looking forward to two exciting projects 
now that the planning process is over. One, the development of 
standards for bicycle routes -- a 'bicycle level of service' as 
requested by a committee of the Transportation Authority -- will help 
define what a good bicycle route is. And two, application of these 
standards, conceptually at least, on the entire bicycle network in 
the soon-to-be proposed "network improvement document."

Yeah for everybody!

Dave