August 25, 2022,
It is bumper to bumper traffic.
You needed to be somewhere twenty minutes ago. You’re not going anywhere.
Horns blaring and heads looking ahead out of rolled down car windows, wondering if there is movement up ahead.
Then swish.
Startled, you look to your right and someone on a bike blazes by.
They will reach their destination in plenty of time.
Riding bikes is not just for the parks or the trails. Can be a great mode of transportation in the city.
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A big city like San Francisco.
Especially if the city involved is committed to bicycle safety and traveling.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency shares, “As San Francisco starts returning to work, activities and travel, bicycling is the perfect way to move about the City. The San Francisco Complete Bike Network Map shows all of the lanes, routes and paths across the city. The SFMTA Recommended Bike Routes map shows San Francisco’s bikeway routes, including the most comfortable, recommended streets and paths for bicyclists to ride separated from vehicles.”
Sounds very committed.
About your health.
Choosing this mode of transportation can be so beneficial for you.
The team at the University of Montana umt.edu educate, “Cycling is one of the healthiest and low-impact forms of exercise - meaning it causes less strain and injuries than most other work outs.”
They add, the U.S. Census estimates that about half of all Americans live within five miles of their workplace. If everyone in the world who works less than 5 miles from home cycled instead of driving to work one day a week, it would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 5 million tons a year.
Healthy for you. Good for our earth.
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The list of benefits from cycling instead of driving is extensive.
If you watch the movies, there can be a sense of adventure too.
Quicksilver is a 1986 American drama film written and directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly and starring Kevin Bacon. The film, which was distributed by Columbia Pictures, also stars Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Louie Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, and Rudy Ramos.
Here is the flash storyline.
Jack Casey (Kevin Bacon) is a young floor trader who loses all of his company's and family's savings on a risky business decision. Deflated and disenchanted with his profession, he quits his job and becomes a bicycle messenger. Casey has to deal with his parents and his girlfriend, who are disappointed with his new job. Along with the colorful characters that work with him, he saves a troubled young woman named Terri (Jami Gertz) from a gang.
Sounds like an adventure.
We saw that film, back in the day, and enjoyed every minute of it.
Then there is a newer offering.
Premium Rush is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by David Koepp and written by Koepp and John Kamps. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, and Jamie Chung. It follows a bicycle messenger chased around New York City by a corrupt police officer who wants an envelope the messenger has.
Okay, maybe that is a little too much excitement for you. Still, riding your bike around San Francisco just got easier.
Check this out.
Support from Speaker Nancy Pelosi helps fund major improvements for the Howard Streetscape Project
San Francisco, CA – Mayor London N. Breed and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation has allocated $23 million for safety upgrades along San Francisco’s Howard Street through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) initiative.
“Making the Howard Street corridor safer will save lives and prevent injuries will also encouraging more people to safely use our bike network in the South of Market area,” said Mayor London Breed. “We have moved quickly to open protected bike lanes with temporary dividers on Howard Streets, and this will allow us to build on that success and make these changes with more permanent infrastructure. I am thankful for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s support of making our streets safer and her advocacy to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg this spring to fund the Howard Streetscape Project.”
“Yesterday’s announcement is a vital step toward ensuring all San Franciscans can safely share our streets – including on foot or on a bicycle,” Speaker Pelosi said. “This $23 million federal investment will help build the safer, greener Howard Street that our City deserves: saving lives, easing commutes, and brining communities closer together. As San Francisco’s proud representative in the Congress, it was my privilege to help secure this transformative funding, and I will continue fighting alongside Mayor London Breed to achieve our Vision Zero – ending traffic fatalities in San Francisco by 2024.”
Located in the South of Market neighborhood (SoMa), between 11th and 4th streets, the Howard Streetscape Project will improve safety on a high-injury corridor, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, support the City’s transformative vision for SoMa as a regional hub, and improve mobility for visitors and residents, including low-income populations who depend most upon riding transit, walking, and bicycling. The transformation of this corridor received strong community engagement and support from safety advocates in San Francisco.
“All through COVID we’ve been experimenting with street safety improvements using plastic and paint,” said Jeffrey Tumlin, SFMTA Director of Transportation. “We’re grateful for Speaker Pelosi’s support to upgrade our successful pilots with concrete and trees.”
The funding will transform a three-lane westbound, dangerous, and heavily travelled arterial to a proposed two-lane street with bike infrastructure improvements including a protected two-way bikeway, protected intersections and separate bicycle and vehicle phases, pedestrian infrastructure improvements such as raised crosswalks at alleyways, curb ramps and pedestrian-level lighting, and civic amenity zones that include decorative crosswalks and historic plaques and green infrastructure indicative of a safe street design built to protect the most vulnerable road users.
Between 2014 and 2019, three fatalities occurred on the corridor, along with 152 traffic crashes on the Folsom-Howard couplet, with more than half of these involving people walking or biking.
More information about the project is available at sfmta.com/FolsomHoward.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Rush
https://www.umt.edu/transportation/bike/about/benefits/
https://www.sfmta.com/maps/san-francisco-bike-network-map
https://www.fciwomenswrestling2.com
https://www.fcielitecompetitor.com/
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NOTE: Very important, whenever you are engaging in a new exercise or sport for the first time, please consult with your physician first.
