MEMBERS' HOPES FOR 2018 | 2 WE HIRED AN ADVICE COLUMNIST. KINDA | 7 WOMEN OVER 50 EMPOWERING EACH OTHER | 9 WHAT YOU'RE MISSING AT MCLAREN BIKE PARK | 10 We're working on it | page 5 EDITOR LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Chris Cassidy ASSOCIATE EDITOR MEMBERS' HOPES AND DREAMS IN 2018 Howard Levitt COPY EDITOR PUTTING OUR VALUES INTO ACTION Christopher White DISTRIBUTION Zack Lipson DESIGN Julia Schaber By the time you read this letter, your San Francisco Bicycle Coalition board of The Tube Times is a quarterly publication of the San Francisco directors will have approved a new five-year Strategic Plan to guide our work Bicycle Coalition, a member-based advocacy organization through 2022. I want to thank all of you who informed the scope and direction of this transforming San Francisco’s streets into more livable, safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation. plan by attending an open house or a forum, responding to our survey, or sitting down for a listening session. I also want to thank board, staff and members who ADVOCACY DIRECTOR served on the committee that sifted through all the rich data that resulted from that Janice Li, x302, [email protected] process, analyzed it, and helped draft and revise the plan until we arrived at the final BICYCLE PARKING COORDINATOR Bridget Zapata, x303, [email protected] product. We are excited to share this bold plan in detail with members and the world BICYCLE PARKING COORDINATOR in the coming weeks, so watch your inboxes. Rourke Healey, x303, [email protected] Our mission of promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation remains the reason COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Chris Cassidy, x308, [email protected] for our organization's existence. The new Strategic Plan adds a set of four core COMMUNITY ORGANIZER values and corresponding value statements to help guide us in our work toward Charles Deffarges, x313, [email protected] achieving that mission: COMMUNITY ORGANIZER Julia Raskin, x312, [email protected] TRANSPORTATION JUSTICE: We advocate for everyone’s equitable access to safe, DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR affordable and healthy transportation to create a just city. Tracy Chinn, x316, [email protected] SUSTAINABILITY: We fight climate change by enabling and encouraging more DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Gina Schumacher, x320, [email protected] people to bike more often. EVENT PLANNER PEOPLE POWER: We create positive change through coalition building and Susan Gallentine, x318, [email protected] collective action. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Brian Wiedenmeier, x305, [email protected] JOY: We celebrate bicycling as a fun, healthy way to get around and connect with FAMILY & SCHOOLS COORDINATOR each other and our communities Janelle Phung, x324, [email protected] FAMILY & SCHOOLS PROGRAM MANAGER Each time I read these values, I feel a sense of renewed commitment to our mission Nancy Buffum, x314, [email protected] and a dedication to holding ourselves to a high standard. If we live these values GRAPHIC DESIGNER through our work, I know that we will continue to make even more significant Julia Schaber, x317, [email protected] progress toward a city that is a safe, just and livable place for everyone. MEMBERSHIP & BUSINESS PROGRAM MANAGER Anna Gore, x303, [email protected] Sometimes, however, we will need to navigate situations where these values may MEMBERSHIP ASSISTANT seem at first glance in opposition to one another. Take our bike theft story on pages Kelsey Roeder, x310, [email protected] 5-6, for example. Our value of Transportation Justice calls on us to recognize the OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Frank Chan, x304, [email protected] experience of black and brown communities with law enforcement and to resist OPERATIONS MANAGER advocating for enforcement policies that may bring further harm. People Power calls Janelle Wong, x311, [email protected] on us to come together as individuals to form a louder voice for action. This past PHONE BANK COORDINATOR summer and fall, I heard from many members upset about theft who demanded we Juli Uota, x319, [email protected] support aggressive police enforcement, particularly against open air chop shops. As PROGRAM COORDINATOR you will read, we did our best to call upon both values while bringing more attention Christopher White, x322, [email protected] and solutions to the real and difficult problems posed by theft. PROGRAM COORDINATOR Miles Stepto, x315, [email protected] Solving difficult problems to achieve what others would too easily give up on is at PROGRAM DIRECTOR the heart of what your San Francisco Bicycle Coalition does. Whether it’s demanding Ana Vasudeo, x301, [email protected] the highest quality protected bike lanes on our streets or holding City officials TECHNOLOGY COORDINATOR accountable to their promises, we will be there seeking the best solutions in a Kevin Diep, x307, [email protected] complex and changing world. I hope you will help re-affirm our values and support BOARD OF DIRECTORS this crucial work. Join me in making a year-end, tax-deductible gift to the SF Bicycle Nicholas Aulston, Rocky Beach, Mary Kay Chin (Secretary), Lisa Fisher, Jenn Fox, Chema Hernández Gil, Amandeep Jawa, Coalition Education Fund at sfbike.org/donate. We need your support to help our Shirley Johnson, Adam Keats, Lawrence Li (Treasurer), Lindy Kae movement pedal the extra mile in 2018. Best wishes to you, your families, and our Patterson, Jeremy Pollock, Leah Shahum, Andy Thornley (President), Jiro Yamamoto biking community for a happy and healthy New Year! BICYCLE EDUCATION OUTREACH SPECIALISTS Amita Amin, Alison Cantor, Molly Riddle VALET BICYCLE SUPERVISORS Nahid Abunama-Elgadi, Amita Amin, Nicolas Anderson, Loren Bondurant, Zach Bondurant, Alison Cantor, Geoff Fletcher, Francisco Grajales, Xiomara Grande, Kate Hanus, Devon Hayden, Caley Heekin, Richard Kesler, Jessi Lawrence, Nick Marti, Maggie McGarry, Matthew McKenna, Elisa Meza, Nassim Nobari, Molly BRIAN WIEDENMEIER Riddle, Angelina Romano, Alexis Wallace, Tracy Weiss Executive Director San Francisco Bicycle Coalition INTERNS Lucinda Casbolt, Jessica Castaneda, Yajayra Cortez, Maggie Fields, Tiffany Guzman, Irene Ho, Ivy Li, Alvin Lin, Yi Wen 1720 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 tel: 415-431-2453 (BIKE) [email protected] Support our work for more welcoming, more bikeable streets with a gift today: sfbike.org/donate. facebook.com/sfbike instagram.com/sfbike twitter.com/sfbike MEMBERS' HOPES AND DREAMS IN 2018 Want to know the secret to how the SF Bicycle Coalition consistently wins more and better bike lanes all over San Francisco? It’s you — our members — turning up, speaking out and supporting our advocacy for people biking. So we reached out to a few of you to see what you’re most looking forward to in the year ahead. TYRA FENNEL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF IMPRINT CITY "In Bayview-Hunters Point, Imprint City has created the ‘Sprayview,’ ALISON CANTOR on Egbert Avenue and Third BIKE EDUCATION OUTREACH SPECIALIST Street, seeking to bring more art & VALET BICYCLE PARKING SUPERVISOR and lighting to an area frequented YI WEN by a growing number of people 2017 INTERN walking and biking. In 2018, we “I'm really excited for the are looking forward to securing construction on the Wiggle and more investments to activate Masonic to be finished! These are “In 2018, I want San Francisco to be similar spaces, bringing both critical connectors that will make a city where various levels of riders beauty and public safety to all the difference for me and my can explore the city with ease, isolated areas of the city." neighbors.” breeze and pride.” KAREN WIENER DANI ARIAS SOO LEE CO-OWNER OF THE NEW WHEEL, AN SF VOLUNTEER & FORMER BICYCLE RECENT ADULT LEARN TO RIDE STUDENT BICYCLE COALITION BUSINESS PARTNER EDUCATION STUDENT “The countless symbolic gestures “I'm really looking forward to “I'm excited that I will be able to toward cyclists from City Hall in seeing more protected bike lanes expand out to new areas in the recent years have done little to and connected bike routes, city on my bike since San improve safety and access, making especially in the city's outer Francisco is fixing up the streets Thanks to Dolan Law Firm for supporting the Tube Times the coming local elections an neighborhoods. I'm lucky to have to be safer for people biking, opportunity to hold City officials been able to take advantage of the driving and walking. I have been accountable. In 2018, I look upgrades on San Jose Avenue in a mostly sticking to the park and forward to dreaming big, creating big way this year, and I think the Richmond neighborhood since a vision of our city with having safer routes will help I feel like it's slightly safer, but comprehensive infrastructure and encourage a lot of folks in our outer I'm excited to experience more of WINTER 2018 tens of thousands more cyclists, neighborhoods to commute by SF by bike!” and putting into action a plan to bike!” make it happen.” 2 QUICK RELEASES SATURDAY CAR-FREE STREET SPACE FULTON ST CRO PRESIDIO BLVD SSOVER DR RK A T P RA N R S D V EN CONSERVATORY E RD R DE YOUNG GA OF FLOWERS S MUSEUM A E TE R D A K D R AR JF IW AG H STOW LAKE DR E JAPANESE TEA GARDEN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES GOLDEN GATE PARK TENNIS COURTS R STRAWBERRY D R HILL E V O S S STOW LAKE DR KORET CHILDREN’S O R QUARTER PLAYGROUND C SAN FRANCISCO STANYAN ST STANYAN BOTANICAL GARDEN KEZAR DR MLK DR LINCOLN WAY KEZAR STADIUM FREDERICK ST 19TH AVE HEALTHY SATURDAYS YEAR-ROUND IT TOOK A VILLAGE TO THROW THIS PARTY Ten years ago, SF Bicycle Coalition members led the charge and On Dec. 3, more than 1,000 SF Bicycle Coalition members came won open space on JFK Drive for people biking, walking and together for Winterfest, our annual member party and fundraiser rolling on Saturdays.
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