San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee

Minutes of the Meeting on August 28^th, 2008

Meeting was called to order at 7 pm by Chairman Hill
Minutes from the July meeting were approved.
Chairman Hill announced that the first “Sunday Streets” event would take place on August 31.
Casey Allen mentioned that the Slow Foods festival was also on for that weekend.

Andy Thornley of the SFBC mentioned the second family time festival in Golden Gate Park on September 6.

Chairman Hill spoke about bicycling as mentioned in the Christian Science Monitor.
Picking up on the media angle, Richard Tilles cited an excellent article on the bike plan injunction that was in the recent Wall Street Journal.
Marc Brandt talked about his participation on the Caltrain Bikes on board Committee.
Casey Allen has met with Supervisor Sandoval who will ask to have a meeting of the Transportation and Land Use Committee to discuss environmental damage caused by the bike plan injunction.
Thornley mentioned a 9 AM Saturday bike ride in District 3.
Randall Orr from SF State discussed a Southwest bike committee to discuss issues in Districts 4, 7 and 11.

There was a committee recess between 7:15 and 7:55.

The Committee went over comments made by Chairman Hill and Task Force Member Tilles. Dustin White of SFMTA was present to take notes on the comments and to answer questions.
At the end, Andy Bindman made a motion to accept comments as written and amended during the session. The motion passed unanimously.

Brandt said that given recent comments from police on critical mass; a police representative should attend our next meeting. Hill suggested instead that we write a letter to Chief Fong and Brandt said that he would draft such a letter.