Business leaders, police calling for end to dedicated bike lane on Richmond-San Rafael Bridge

[Scott Mace]

Fox News TV in San Francisco airs video of crowd holding "Close the
failed bike lane" signs.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/business-leaders-organizations-calling-end-dedicated-bike-lane-richmond-san-rafael-bridge

Scott Mace

[Jim Baross]

Are there really only 20+ bicyclists per day?

Is providing an on-demand or scheduled bike-carrying shuttle considered if the bikeway is removed during commute hours/days?

Jim Baross

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[Bert Hill]

That’s probably true. As I understand it, there used to be a bike-carrying shuttle. I don’t know why it wasn’t continued. I was commenting with my fellow board members that the lane should be a light rail, connecting to BART & the Capitol Corridor (Amtrack) to Sacramento. People in the Northern Counties don’t have a transit connector to BART East Bay and Sacramento.

[Pete Penseyres]

I have some history using that bridge.

On Sunday, September 3, 1978 my wife and I rode our tandem over the bridge to Martinez and took the Amtrak home to Oceanside from there. There were no restrictions as I recall, but it is possible there was signage restricting bike access. If so, we would have ignored it and begged for forgiveness if stopped. And there must have been a rideable shoulder or a breakdown lane as we weren't harrassed for impeding traffic. It was a great end of a great tour!

On Sunday, June 18, 2000, I was riding from Eugene, Oregon with 2 friends from Switzerland. We started in Healdsburg at my sister's home and arrived at the bridge to find it closed to bikes with a sign telling us that there was a shuttle, but no information on how to contact anyone about it. We asked at serveral stores that were open and any random pedestrians in the area and finally gave up and took a bus. We unloaded all our camping gear, carried it on the bus, and put all 3 bikes in the luggage area. It was a frustrating end to a great tour! 

There is more to this story, but it will need to wait for a very long bike ride.

Pete Penseyres

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[Scott Mace]

Here's the SF Chronicle's coverage:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/traffic-bridge-bicycle-lane-marin-20326160.php

One sentence give me particular concern:

"Critics, however, accuse officials of catering to a small group of hardcore riders at the expense of people who struggle to get to work each day."

Such a sentence could easily illustrate calls for new legislation making Class IV usage mandatory (as the original CalBike legislation would have done, before CABO's intervention).

Beware of the unintended consequences of the current cycling segregationist movement.

Scott Mace

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