[BALUG-Talk] Free Parking Re: Carpool from Berkeley TuesJune24 to BALUG

[David Fetter]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 06:32:31PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:14:23PM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 02:56:54PM -0700, john_re wrote:
> > > 
> > > A biker friend (non-motoraized) tell me IIRC the new bay bridge
> > > span will have a bike lane - is that true?  Then all we need is
> > > a bike lane on the sf side of the bridge.
> > 
> > Yep.  Remember who nixed the bike lane on the Yerba Buena -> SF
> > leg when you vote.  Hint: he's Austrian ;)
> > 
> > > Though, that will seriously decrease the impace of that last
> > > friday of the month biker group that rides their bikes across
> > > the bridge, blocking traffic.  ;)
> 
> What was the reason he nixed the bike lane?  The three major
> Brooklyn to Manhattan bridges have bike lanes.

Because he's a Repugnican, and they're against public anything, unless
it's unaccountable shoveling of public money into private hands.  Have
you been paying attention since, oh, say, January 20th of 1981?

> > Hey, Critical Mass would be *delighted* to have a bike lane all
> > the way across :)
> 
> Critical Mass is nuts so don't expect recruiting them to the cause
> for a bike lane would be productive.

Way too late.  They've been demanding one for years.

Cheers,
David.
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