Northern California - fyi - SF Bicycle Coalition recommendations for the November election

Bikeforums.net is a forum about nothing but bikes. Our community can help you find information about hard-to-find and localized information like bicycle tours, specialties like where in your area to have your recumbent bike serviced, or what are the best bicycle tires and seats for the activities you use your bike for.



PDA
johnny99
10-21-08, 12:53 PM
The San Francisco Bicycle Election endorses a number of local candidates as friendly to the bicycle infrastructure in the city:
http://www.sfbike.org/?vote08

cyclezealot
10-21-08, 12:57 PM
as many cyclists as I've seen about the Bay area, this is a good thing.. Get cyclists together into a voting block and politicans might pay more attention to us. How about inviting politicians to local bike advocacy groups. Make our presence felt.
johnny99
10-21-08, 01:00 PM
as many cyclists as I've seen about the Bay area, this is a good thing.. Get cyclists together into a voting block and politicans might pay more attention to us. How about inviting politicians to local bike advocacy groups. Make our presence felt.

This sort of thing does happen in San Francisco. Not so much in the suburbs.

DiabloScott
10-21-08, 01:15 PM
Get cyclists together into a voting block and politicans might pay more attention to us. How about inviting politicians to local bike advocacy groups. Make our presence felt.

I think they would pay more attention to a cyclist PAC that donated gobs of money.
BlastRadius
10-21-08, 01:21 PM
Anyone know of something similar for San Mateo County?
johnny99
10-21-08, 02:03 PM
Anyone know of something similar for San Mateo County?

The SVBC is the main bicycle advocacy organization in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties: http://bikesiliconvalley.org/about

They have a lower membership (and thus lower effectiveness) than the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.