City petitions court to end bike injunction

Pub date August 28, 2009
SectionPolitics Blog

By Steven T. Jones
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The three-year-old ban on new bicycle-related projects in San Francisco – imposed because city officials failed to do a detailed Environmental Impact Report with its Bicycle Plan – may soon come to an end.

The San Francisco City Attorney’s Office this afternoon filed a petition with Judge Peter Busch seeking to end the injunction, arguing that the recently approved Bike Plan and supporting EIR address the concerns that led to the injunction, which banned everything from bike lanes to simple sidewalk racks.