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It's worked in cities around the world
but why doesn't San Francisco have a bike sharing program?
As soon as possible is the timeline.
We've been talking about this for a while
we're under the bicycle injunction for three years
and so we're all very frustrated
not be able to make improvements to bicycling in San Francisco directly.
Since june of 2006, the city has been barred by a lawsuit
from building any more bike lanes
or even installing bike racks on the sidewalks
We believe that the city will prevail in this lawsuit
and we'll finally be able to go ahead and
install the additional 34 miles of bike lanes
that the city has identified as a priority back in 2006.
As part of San Francisco's master bike plan
bikesharing programs where haltered by the injunction.
The program would allow people to use city bikes for a small fee.
Our customer can come up and swipe their pass card
they pull their bike out and they're on their way
It's that easy
But is San Francisco really ready to put an additional
2700 bikes on the street?
There needs to be more bike lanes in San Francisco
so that people can get around more easily.
The streets are really bad in terms of the quality of the pavement.
But i think the people can and will continue to ride bikes despite that
It's still a great city for cycling, well set up
I think in general people are aware of cyclists
bycicling in San Francisco has increased more that 50 per cent
in the last three years even tho we're under the bike injunction
so, bikesharing can be one more thing
like new lanes, bike racks
and other treatments to make San Francisco
the really best city for bicycling in North America.
This is Heather Duthie for CNS News