Sierra Club Biking in SF Workshop | SoMa

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From 2006 to 2010, San Francisco saw a nearly 60% increase in bicyclists. In turn, bicycle infrastructure projects have become one of the most promising and active areas of transportation development.

How meaningfully can bikes as a transportation option reduce urban air pollution and traffic congestion? What can be learned from the successes and failures of bicycle infrastructure projects in China and the US? How can activists, urban planners, and city officials work together to create livable, viable, and green urban environments?

“Re-Cycling The Roads” Speakers:

• Timothy Papandreou is the Deputy Director of the Sustainable Streets Initiative at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA).
• Colin Hughes is an independent urban planning consultant working primarily with the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy and the Asian Development Bank. His clients over the past two years have included various UN agencies, the City of Guangzhou, and BART.

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Meanwhile, Chinese cities—which until recently conjured images of streets packed with bicycles —are seeing explosive growth in personal automobiles and multi-week traffic jams, including a 62-mile long traffic jam that lasted nearly two weeks in August 2010. Despite this, there are continued pushes for expanded bicycle use, with by far the largest bicycle sharing program in the world located in Hangzhou and plans to further develop bicycle infrastructure in municipalities across the nation.

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