Fell and Oak Streets Bikeways in Jeopardy

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Dear Kevin, As you may know, your San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has been working hard to get separated bikeways on three critical and intimidating blocks of Fell and Oak streets. But this project is in jeopardy because a very vocal minority is speaking out again the bikeways, prioritizing their parking convenience over your safety.   Here’s what one of the neighbors said about the Fell and Oak bikeway projects: "I oppose the [Fell and Oak Streets] bike plan which would eliminate 70 parking spots in our neighborhood. Although I have garage space it would be a great hardship for my visitors, friends and neighbors. I think the current Fell St bike lane is perfectly fine." Perfectly fine? We don’t think so. These few vocal opponents are starting to get the attention of the politicians and city agencies, endangering years of our community organizing work.   I’m writing to ask you to donate towards our organization's enhanced outreach campaign. With your help we can step up our efforts and ensure your voice for safe bike conditions is stronger than the pro-parking voice. In the last year, your San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has reached out to every business along the corridor, distributed thousands of fliers to neighbors and businesses, and attended a dozen community meetings — all to be your voice for safe bicycling conditions. That’s a lot of our staffing, time and energy for this one Connecting the City project. And your safety is well worth it! Your financial help right now -- $10, $25, $50 or $500 -- will help us go even further to ensure the Fell and Oak streets bikeway project is the best it can be – the safest bikeway for you, your loved ones, neighbors and colleagues traveling by bike from the Lower Haight to Golden Gate Park and the surrounding neighborhoods — and not watered down by parking-first lobbying.   Fell and Oak street bikeways are only three blocks. If the City bends its ear to these vocal pro-parking minorities then other key bicycle safety improvements are also in danger. A special gift right now will ensure that years of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition advocacy are not undone by neighbors who think that conditions are “perfectly fine.” They’re not. And you deserve better. With gratitude, Leah Shahum Executive Director   P.S.  Your San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is out there pounding the pavement every day to get these three-critical blocks of bikeways on the ground. A special contribution today will allow us to make sure parking concerns don’t undo our years of work so we will all be pedaling on separated bikeways soon! 833 Market St., 10th Floor | San Francisco, CA 94103 US

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