Bike, ultra lightweight vehicles and Pedestrian safe city wide corridors
There are so many reasons to demote the car and replace this reduction with alternative transportation options.
Population will continue to grow according to predictions. There just is not enough room for the automobile to dominate San Francisco
Gawd there are a lot of good reasons to diminish car traffic:
-clean air
-healthier citizens
-stronger community interaction and human connections
-new industries in biking, electric lightweight vehicles and mass transit. new jobs, a model for other cities and products we can export as other cities try to catch up with our fine progressive city.
-bikes would need much narrower roads and parking would be 1/10 of the space
-new aesthetics, human scaled neighborhoods where the reduced parking spaces would mean more sidewalk patios, green spaces and outdoor meeting areas :)
Obstacles
-sometimes i'm scared to death interacting with traffic in sf
can we set aside some streets or full lanes where bikes and electric lightweight vehicles are protected from large suv's who seem to get infuriated if they have to wait 20 seconds to safely pass me. we need a safe grid throughout the city. this would not eliminate car roads it would just give people a safe corridor to travel by alternative vehicles and take away the biggest obstacle and mental barrier to riding bikes and ultra lightweight vehicles. sharing the road on these narrow streets is not enough, I would like to see cement curbs/walls separating me from the large SUV's barreling down the street. converting some streets to lightweight low speed vehicle use would easily convert the population as car streets would become more difficult and alt vehicle streets easier to commute. in fact certain hours the car streets should be just for service and delivery vehicles who will continue to need access with large trucks.
Sidenote: Muni needs to run an east west subway down geary. This bus route is always packed with constant surface double-buses moving every 10 minutes on this route. Put an underground line in and convert 1 lane in each direction for pedestrian, bike and ultra lightweight vehicles. Include street plantings, traffic calming, outdoor cafe's and rest areas. Yay it's beautiful, I can picture it, can you?
Population will continue to grow according to predictions. There just is not enough room for the automobile to dominate San Francisco
Gawd there are a lot of good reasons to diminish car traffic:
-clean air
-healthier citizens
-stronger community interaction and human connections
-new industries in biking, electric lightweight vehicles and mass transit. new jobs, a model for other cities and products we can export as other cities try to catch up with our fine progressive city.
-bikes would need much narrower roads and parking would be 1/10 of the space
-new aesthetics, human scaled neighborhoods where the reduced parking spaces would mean more sidewalk patios, green spaces and outdoor meeting areas :)
Obstacles
-sometimes i'm scared to death interacting with traffic in sf
can we set aside some streets or full lanes where bikes and electric lightweight vehicles are protected from large suv's who seem to get infuriated if they have to wait 20 seconds to safely pass me. we need a safe grid throughout the city. this would not eliminate car roads it would just give people a safe corridor to travel by alternative vehicles and take away the biggest obstacle and mental barrier to riding bikes and ultra lightweight vehicles. sharing the road on these narrow streets is not enough, I would like to see cement curbs/walls separating me from the large SUV's barreling down the street. converting some streets to lightweight low speed vehicle use would easily convert the population as car streets would become more difficult and alt vehicle streets easier to commute. in fact certain hours the car streets should be just for service and delivery vehicles who will continue to need access with large trucks.
Sidenote: Muni needs to run an east west subway down geary. This bus route is always packed with constant surface double-buses moving every 10 minutes on this route. Put an underground line in and convert 1 lane in each direction for pedestrian, bike and ultra lightweight vehicles. Include street plantings, traffic calming, outdoor cafe's and rest areas. Yay it's beautiful, I can picture it, can you?
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- Green Transportation
