Finally a fix for Fell-Masonic
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I and other bicyclists and pedestrians have long been urging the city to do something about the dangerous intersection of Fell and Masonic, and that pressure yesterday yielded a small but significant victory.
City attorneys persuaded Judge Peter Busch to make an exception in his injunction against bicycle projects so that the city can create a dedicated left turn lane and traffic signal phase for cars, which now cut across the pedestrians and bicyclists in a way that often leads to life-threatening collisions.
Kudos to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and City Attorney's Office for taking this seriously enough to head back to court over it, and another big raspberry to anti-bike blogger Rob Anderson (the guy responsible for the injunction) for forcing the city to jump through so many legal hoops just to make some common sense improvements to promote safe bicycling.
The project must still go through the city approval process -- where Anderson will likely to be speaking against it and threatening to sue again -- but it appears to be a done deal that will be built by early summer.
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=v= Note that it's not Judge Busch's injunction; he's just upholding the decision of the retired Judge Warren (who had a history of nutty rulings).
It probably helped that Fell/Masonic is an intersection of sidewalks and a multi-use path, so it's not bike-specific. Busch denied the bike-specific deathtrap at Market/Octavia, so watch out for more blood on Rob Anderson's hands.
Posted by Jym | May 1, 2008 07:37 PM