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This month the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) will honor Sunday Streets at their annual awards ceremony, the Golden Wheel Awards. Each year, this event honors those individuals or organizations that have dedicated all of their resources to advance biking and other avenues of sustainable transportation in San Francisco. SFBC is proud to have initiated the idea of Sunday Streets, a temporary car-free event that encourages San Franciscans to “get out and get active” on selected Sunday mornings. Sunday Streets was championed by a broad coalition of organizations and has been expanded for 2009.

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The San Francisco Bike Coalition (SFBC) is revving up the fight for 56 bike improvement projects up for review this spring. Over a year ago, all implementation of the San Francisco Bike Plan was stopped by a court injunction, and since then, bike improvements have been at a standstill. With a completed EIR and the possibility of the injunction being lifted soon, SFBC is organizing neighborhood teams to gather signatures and gain support to make sure that all 56 projects of the Bike Plan get approved.

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According to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, “We cheered at Thursday’s decision by Superior Court Judge Peter J. Busch to reject the SF Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) proposal to remove a bike lane and protective barrier at the notoriously dangerous Market and Octavia intersection. Thanks to the more than 200 bicyclists, as well as state and local officials, who came out to rally with the SFBC to save the Market and Octavia Bike Lane—the bike voice was heard!”

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According to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, “Thousands of adults and kids took to the streets to play during the first very successful Sunday Streets event! The route from Chinatown along the Embarcadero all the way down Third Street to the Bayview became a huge playground full of hoola hooping, yoga, dancing, rollerskating and of course bicycling. It was fantastic to see so many people participating, especially so many parents and kids—we lost count of the number of kids out learning to ride their bicycles on the car-free streets.” San Francisco’s first Sunday Streets events, where four miles of downtown streets were closed to cars, took place August 31st and September 14th.

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San Francisco’s 14th Annual Bike to Work Day was a record-breaking success.  The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) welcomed 704 new members through 25 Energizer Stations, which takes SFBC to over 9,000 members! The city also counted twice as many bicycles as cars on Market Street in downtown San Francisco. Bicyclists made up 64% of the eastbound traffic on Market St. at Van Ness Ave., while motorists comprised 32% between 8am and 9am (a 31% increase in biking over last year). 

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