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What would it really take to meet the city's ambitious cycling goal -- and do leaders have the political will to get there?
There's no doubt that San Francisco is one of the best cities in the United States for bicyclists, a place where near universal support in City Hall has translated into regular cycling infrastructure improvements and pro-cyclist legislation, as a slew of activists and politicians will attest to on May 10 after dismounting from their Bike to Work Day morning rides.
But even the most bike-friendly U.S. cities — including Portland, Ore., Davis, Chicago, and New York City — are still on training wheels compared to our European counterparts, such as Amsterdam and Copenhagen, where around 30 percent of all vehicle trips are by bike. By comparison, even the best U.S. cities are still in the low single digits. [Correction: Davis, which stands alone among U.S. cities, is actually at about 15 percent bike mode share]
Board President David Chiu and other city officials proposed to aggressively address that gap two years ago after returning from a fact-finding trip to Europe that also included Ed Reiskin, executive director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), the agency charged with implementing city policies that favor transit riders, cyclists, and pedestrians over motorists.
Chiu sponsored legislation setting the goal of having 20 percent of all vehicle trips in San Francisco be by bike by the year 2020 and calling for the SFMTA to do a study on how to meet that goal. It was overwhelmingly approved by the Board of Supervisors and signed by Mayor Ed Lee, who has regularly cited it and proclaimed his support for what it now official city policy.
But the city will fail to meet that goal, probably by a significant amount, unless there is a radical change on our roadways.
The latest SFMTA traffic survey, released in February, showed that bikes represent about 3.5 percent of vehicle trips, a 71 percent increase in five years. While the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) lauded that gain as "impressive," it would mean a 571 percent increase in the next seven years to meet the 2020 goal.
The SFMTA study on how to meet the goal is long overdue, with sources telling us its potentially controversial conclusions have it mired by internal concerns and divisions. SFMTA spokesperson Paul Rose told us in March that it was coming out in April, and now he won't say when to expect it and he won't even make its authors available to answer our questions.
"We want to make sure everything is addressed before the plan is finalized," he told us, acknowledging that it's been a difficult process. "The challenge of reaching the goal is ambitious."
Chiu acknowledges that the goal he set probably won't be met and expressed frustration with the SFMTA. "I'm disappointed that two years after we set that goal, there is still no plan," he told us, adding that to make major gains "will take leadership at the top" and a greater funding commitment to this cost-effective transportation option: "We're spending budget dust on something that we say is a priority for the city."
Reiskin also seemed to acknowledge the difficulty in meeting the goal when we asked him about it and he told us, "To get to 20 percent would be a quantum leap, no question, but the good news is there's strong momentum in the right direction."
Yet on Bike to Work Day, it's worth exploring why we're failing to meet our goal and how we might achieve it. What would have to happen, and what would it look like, to have 20 percent of traffic be people on bikes?
If 80% of people aren't using bicycles, then of course there's not going to be a city-wide will to accomodate the 20% that are bicyclists. The policies are not in line with the actual desires of city residents.
If 99.9999% of San Franciscans aren't you, then why should anyone care what you think?
Fantastic piece. These are exactly the sort of questions that need to be asked about the gap between eco-dreams and the hardnosed, nuts-and-bolts actions that need to be taken to actually implement them. I love the 20% by 2020 goal, not because I think it will actually be met, but because it exposes the ludicrously slow pace of progress that is occurring in San Francisco.
I actually think San Francisco is going to be bypassed by the likes of Chicago, New York, and DC and will be watching those cities and others set the standard for bike infrastructure in the US. Too many San Franciscans can't bring themselves to support the actual, real-life choices that need to be undertaken to make SF a city that can be mentioned in the same breath as Amsterdam or Copenhagen when it comes to bike-friendliness. This would require:
- Eliminating -- not reducing -- environmental review on bike infrastructure projects, so that never again will one embittered, pathetic crank like Rob Anderson unilaterally derail progress in an entire city of 800,000 for four years.
- GASP -- taking away some on-street parking spaces.
- GASP -- taking away road space from cars and reallocating it to people who choose to move about in a way that doesn't spew pollution and endanger others.
All of the elements are there -- Leah Shahum and the SFBC are passionate, sophisticated and savvy advocates. City staff are tremendously capable, intelligent people that any city anywhere in the world would kill to have.
Basically it comes down to whether the politicians are going to show some spine and take action, and more fundamentally, whether enough citizens of the City are going to push them to do so.
It's your move, San Francisco. Put up or shut up time. Either take action, or watch other places race past you in implementing the values that you claim are so precious.
Actually, they're values YOU claim are precious. The overwhelming majority of the city doesn't share your view.
Well then the overwhelming majority of the city is a bunch of head-in-the-sand know-nothings. Just because the majority of the world thinks the world is flat doesn't make it so.
that it really does matter what the majority would think.
Perhaps you'd prefer a dictatorship instead? Although only if you could be the dictator, no doubt.
I'm a "pathetic crank"? Seems pathetic to me to insult someone anonymously.
Anon talks about "real life choices," but the reality City Hall is facing is that projects for specific streets will invite a negative reaction from the overwhelming majority of city residents who don't ride bikes. Jones mentions the proposed bike lanes on the Panhandle as a "significant bike safety advance," but there's no evidence of a lot of accidents to cyclists on the Panhandle.
This issue is not about money or a lack of political will in City Hall; it's really about space on city streets where cyclists are only 3.5% of commuters in SF. Making traffic worse for everyone else on city streets based on only the hope that people will abandon cars and start riding bikes is not politically sustainable, even here in Progressive Land. I suspect that City Hall understands that problem better than the bike zealots.
"Anderson unilaterally derailed progress in an entire city of 800,000 for four years."
The reality: City Hall knew rushing the Bicycle Plan through the process without any environmental review was illegal but did it anyway, even though we tried to warn both the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors way back in 2005.
A mystery bike zealots in SF have never been able to explain: Why did two Superior Court judges rule in our favor on our litigation against the city? Why should a major project like the Bicycle Plan have no environmental review, when it takes away more than 2,000 street parking spaces and more than 50 traffic lanes to make bike lanes? Can anyone really think that will have no environmental impact?
It is discriminatory because it cannot be done by the very young, the very old and the disabled. So converting road space to the use of only bikes is unfair on the majority who do not bike and the minority that cannot
Second, it is the ultimate in private transit and so contrary to a transit-first city. Even a car can transport several people, and be shared communally, as in a taxi. But a bike is the ultimate in selfishness - only one person can use a bike. Even a car can pack more people into 20 feet of road space than a bike.
So, discriminatory and selfish and private. No wonder the bike nuts are such an ugly, angry mob.
Are you joking? Driving is discriminatory because it cannot be done by the very young, the very old and the disabled. There are bicycles for the legless. There are electric assists for the out-of-shape and the elderly. Not to mention the poor. A larger portion of the population is capable of cycling (with some training) than driving a car.
Try doing that on a bike. Cycling is elitist.
I agree that biking isn't for everybody, but the real transportation problem in San Francisco is simple: too many cars. I've lived in the City for 60 years. 60 years ago the population was almost as great, but there was much less congestion. Today cars choke the streets, pollute the air, and block other, sane forms of transit. SF has room for 800,000 people. It doesn't have room for 800,000 cars or anything approaching that number. Eliminate the private autos and put people on public transit, bikes or feet and the City would be infinitely improved.
Maybe bike riders aren't a majority, but add them to the people who walk plus people who take Muni plus parents who want their children to be able to walk to and from school without getting run over, and you've got a majority.
Need I add that the typical American car puts something like 6 tons of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas, into the air every year. I hope that those denying that cars are the problem aren't also denying that global warming is a problem. Our current auto-centric lifestyle is unsustainable and planet-destroying.
promote their own favorite form of transportation without being down on others, most notably cars.
If SF is really as tolerant and diverse as it likes to think it is, then why can't so many of the bike nuts accept that they have to share the road with other types of vehicle?
You can love bikes without hating cars. Try it.
The reason cyclists lose support is that most people don't feel like cycling. It takes work to cycle. Try it sometime, especially up hill. But of course you think you're too good to ride a bicycle and you don't have the intelligence to do so. Too busy trolling. What a waste of life time. Cycling takes more than sitting on your obese ass and lightly pushing an accelerator or brake. Also while cycling one cannot do all the many things that motorists do in their vehicle while driving. Cycling requires both hands on the handlebars. Many motorists see their vehicle as an extension of their living room, kitchen, bathroom (teeth brushing and flossing) or office.
Cyclist shouldn't need to promote cycling. Basic intelligence should tell anyone with half-a-brain that cycling is the more intelligent form of transportation: better for one's health and the environment. This country is going in the opposite direction of healthy and you are part of that problem.
And the fact that you referred to "bike nuts" shows where you're coming from and how "intolerant" you are while you speak of "tolerance and diversity." Hypocrite.
It's mainly the vehicles that have trouble sharing the road (there's far more vehicles than cyclists, unfortunately). Because of motorists' hate for cyclists they don't feel that cyclists should be on the streets/roads and therefore don't feel they need to share the streets/road.
Why don't you learn something sometime? You're on the internet but you don't seem to do much with it other than troll. What a waste of time and one's life.
understand anyone else's point of view?
Got it.
demanded that we completely abandon our hard-fought-for environmental review process in CA to automatically approve their favored projects. Imagine if, for example, the petroleum industry demanded the right to drill wherever it owned mineral rights without subjecting itself to any land use or environmental scrutiny. The outcry would, justifiably, be enormous.
Which makes it doubly mind-boggling that Steven and the bike zealots here are demanding exactly that.
idea of the bloated sense of entitlement and self-absorption that they manifest. It's quite stunning how they see themselves as the our saviors, and routinely blame the rest of society for their isolation and self-proclaimed victimization.
They appear to regard riding a bike as a passport to nirvana, and that others should simply stand down and allow them to appropriate more and more of our precious transit corridors to feed their own frenzied egomania.
It's just a damn bike, you know? Get over yourselves. Why does one form of transport get such precious treatment? Especially when so few people actually cycle?
To make matters worse, two people have been killed by cyclists in the city in the last year. In both cases, they were riding too fast and blowing thru red lights - something that we all witness routinely.
Cyclists should be trained, tested, licensed, registered and insured. Then we'll talk about bike lanes.
Developers are teaming up with the SFBC to abandon environmental review for both development and bike facilities projects.
The developers are making a token contribution to transportation infrastructure which might legally mitigate their impacts.
But absolving all future bike projects off of transit corridors from environmental review is troubling legally as well as for transit.
The Bike Plan EIR indicated that there would be three significant (> 6 min) delays of transit due to certain bike projects. One, Townsend was not on a transit corridor.
The EIR also indicated that there would be pages and pages and pages of delays that did not meet that six minute threshold of significance that ranged from tens of seconds to just under six minutes.
Added up, these "non-significant" impacts represent a significant slow down of transit which elicits mode shift away from transit and towards autos.
Cyclists, peds and motorists should be united in demanding more rapid and reliable transit as the lynchpin of transit first policies.
With the TEP pulling teeth to get minor increases in speed, the last thing we need to do is to allow discretionary projects to slow transit down further.
Once transit is rapid and reliable, an favorable alternative to private autos, then we can start to beat on motorists.
Increasing biking does not decrease cars but it does decrease
the use of Public Transportation which is bad and good.
The way to make cycling safer is to get people out of their cars. You don't get people out of their cars by making driving more difficult because there are more people with cars than cyclists and they hold the balance of political power. One quick ballot measure and we're hosed.
The way to get people out of their cars is to make Muni and regional transit competitive and attractive relative to private autos. That requires significant investment.
But that investment cannot be made so long as the transit agencies are not primarily geared to moving people, but are geared to moving money into the proper pockets.
So long as transit trip times are more than twice as long as private auto trip times, people are going to drive and resist anti-parking measures.
Most all bike trips will start and end off of the bike lane network. Nothing on the bike safety agenda addresses safety on 85% of our streets that have no special bike treatments.
The three bikeways proposed are boutique projects, exercises in photo op ribbon cutting, that do not address safety as pertains to most bike trips.
That safety comes in the form of well maintained roadways, of fewer cars on the roads/more people on transit and with enforcement by the SFPD of the real danger to peds and cyclists: rogue motorists who speed, make illegal turns and don't honor the law to give bicyclists the use of the full lane.
There is no political will to contest the SFPD's suburban enforcement priorities at the Board of Supervisors or at the SFBC. The preference is to roll over and play dead to allow the cops to enforce the laws against cyclists instead.
SO long as our advocates stand idly by when fines for bicycling on the sidewalk are doubled without demanding concessions to check the dangerous conditions that cause people to ride on the sidewalk on the first case, all it is going to take is one $100 ticket issued by a cop compensating for his own inadequacies by using ticketing to enforce respect for authority rather than promote safety for a tentative cyclist to revert to a motorist.
Converting the MTA from an ATM to a transit provision agency and converting the SFPD from a suburban pension accumulation operation into a street safety organization are the two tough nuts that the softies at the SFBC can't and won't even consider cracking.
Until then, it is all bicycle fashion shows and social gatherings, boutique bikeways and once a year bike to work days. For this, they get seats at the table, they get designated to hold stake by City Staff so long as they play ball.
the anti-car crowd.
Seems progressives cannot function without having a convenient class to hate. I guess we should blame Marx for that type of thinking.
Sorry- I drive all over the city and I see people in cars pulled over all the time, yet I never see someone on a bike being given a ticket.
Unfortunately as a couple of recent accidnets highlighted- it is the rare occasion that I see cyclists stopping at stop signs, waiting for the green light, signalling etc. It truly is the exception. While the other issues you cited are a valid, cyclist behavior also needs to be looked at and not ignored.
that they appear to have so little respect for traffic rules, even to the point of regarding themselves as not really being liable to them at all.
If cyclists want equal rights and resources, then they must accept equally responsibilities too, including full accountibility for their behavior.
Cops give plenty of bike tickets, only for defying cop authority, not to keep us safe.
All the cops want is to make it through another day to collect their 90% pensions and retire to their leafy suburbs.
They could care less about San Franciscans.
Most times the lights are red, there is cross traffic. Do you really think that most cyclists bike willingly into cross traffic? Do you really see cross traffic stopping all the time for red light running cyclists?
that cyclists don't ignore red lights and traffic signs? Or are you trying to say that if there is no traffic and the light is still red- happens all the time- then it is ok to go? Both are absurd on their face.
"But even the most bike-friendly U.S. cities — including Portland, Ore., Davis, Chicago, and New York City — are still on training wheels compared to our European counterparts, such as Amsterdam and Copenhagen, where around 30 percent of all vehicle trips are by bike. By comparison, even the best U.S. cities are still in the low single digits."
Actually, in Davis bike mode share is well into the double-digits and has been for many years. There are bikes and bike facilities everywhere, just as you might find in the aforementioned European cities. No need for "training wheels" in this "cow town" (ha). Maybe you SF provincials could learn something from us suburban/rural plebes?
You're right, Davis is about 15 percent mode share, and I apologize for the error in my story. I've now added a correction above.
Thanks and apologies for the snarky tone. And thanks for writing this article.
The point remains that SF definitely has some work to do (and lots of potential) when it comes to bike mode share.
Yeah, San Francisco should just cut its population by 92%, cut our population density by 80%, erect wind barriers at the Pacific Ocean and plane down the hills so that we're central valley flat, and we'll be just like Davis.
If anything, SF's high density should be more conducive to bicycling. And the cooling breezes off the Pacific are perfect for cycling without breaking a sweat. So not sure why you bring that up? Yes, Davis has flat terrain and that is a key factor, but in many other senses, Davis is worse for cycling. Much larger weather and temperature extremes (and yes it does get windy from time to time), lots of "suburb" style development, vehicles, etc. Yet *still* Davis has such a high bike mode share. There are lots of flat places in the Central Valley, and almost none are like Davis when it comes to biking. Surely there is something else at play, be it political will, good engineering and design, a more bike-friendly cultural attitude, etc. While the two cities are different, I'm sure there is something that Davis has done that SF could pick up on and use to boost its mode share.
Cycling is just great for people in the flatter areas of the city but not at all possible for many of us who live in the hills. The thing Davis, Copenhagen and Amsterdam have in common is they are each as flat as a pancake - San Francisco is not and never will be.
Hard to imagine anywhere more different than the cities of the American west,
But SF is much more like them than Davis.
Amsterdam is nothing like SF. do we have canals and twisting 1,000 year old alleys?
Not to mention their stunning store-window displays
"It's prioritizing space for biking, walking, and transit over driving."
The Fell and Oak bike lane controversy has highlighted for me that San Francisco's DMV inhabits a splendid position at the end of the panhandle, almost as if it keeps the bike/ped friendly park from spreading further into the city center.
Start by moving the DMV to a less desirable location and put something useful to all people rather than just drivers in its place. That might help.
The DMV lot is government owned land, right? I'd be all for extending the panhandle. Or at least annexing a bit of their parking lot.
Right, the position of the DMV is what causes people along the Wiggle to wig out at removing parking for bike facilities and what causes the SFBC to roll over and play dead when the cops go on enforcement rampages over technical violations of the law that put nobody at risk of injury.
If only that car centered facility were moved, we'd live in a bike paradise.
If only San Francisco were that leafy suburb where I grew up, everything would be wonderful.
that space for parking for local residents to compensate them for the loss of usable road space taken by the bike lanes.
Win-win for everyone! Bikes and cars can live in perfect harmony.
But why is there a need for a bike lane on Fell but apparently not on Oak? Why can't the cyclists on Fell simply take whatever road those going along Oak take. Page or Haight, right?
Which last I looked were helpful to everyone - not just drivers. The city cannot annex state land either.
What I really think would be helpful is if we were to start annexing privately owned land to create bicycle paths across the city - that would definitely ensure people would want to bike.
I want to rectify the use of the term "physical barrier" in the article. Having painted lanes on a street is utterly not safe nor is it a "physical barrier". I would visit when in Paris, some lanes at the level of the Tuilleries, or better yet in the 16th district to see what it means to have a physical barrier for bikes. In San Francisco there exist no physical barrier for bikers yet. Any car, truck, a bus, can and they do it all the time: et into your space. They just have to roll over painted "imaginary" barrier.
To those who speak of a backlash by automobile owners against bikers, I say let all of us bikers and transit riders buy cars and jam their streets. But they would love that actually, for they will be selling more of those cars. We just have to fight and keep going.
can't get built without a huge controversy, because that would affect a alrge number of people. You're talking about taking out an entire traffic lane or parking lane. The result would be a nightmare for the same people who vote on these thigns, and SFMTA know that.
Also, in an emergency, that extra road width can be crucial. As someone who once had to swerve kerbside to avoid an oncoming out-of-control truck, I can tell you that lateral space literally saved my life.
The main reason why I don't ride my bicycle to work is the behavior of other cyclists. What would it take to get me to bike to work? Convincing a majority of my fellow cyclists to stop being complete douches.
Which means I'll be a weekend rider for the foreseeable future, or unless I move out of town.
of cyclists, and registration of vehicles with an identifying plate.
Then we'll talk about equal "rights" for cyclists.
Agreed, wholeheartedly.
I am done with people on bikes who ignore traffic signs and yet EXPECT respect when they endanger my life, theirs and whine about biking rights in the same breath. If you ride and you see other people riding like idiots, just know that they are ruining something that could be great in the entire Bay Area.
If people who ride want equal rights, how about ticketing?, fines for idiotic and dangerous behavior? Perhaps Bike organizations need to fund an SF Bike Police contingent if they are really serious about cleaning up the random and dangerous biking that I witness EVERY time I drive in the Bay Area.
It's appropriate that the heads on the bikers that grace this cover story are bigger than their bodies.
Bike riders in the Bay Area lose my respect every day when they blow through stop signs, run into people and generally think that NONE of the normal traffic rules apply to them, for example letting someone walk across a crosswalk without having to dodge a bike. I've had friends knocked down by people on bikes in the city. And on a regular basis now, I have had to slam on my brakes to avoid people on bikes who ignore traffic signs. This is untenable and plain stupid.
You might say there are a few bad apples ruining it for the rest of the responsible bike riding folks, but there are so many in the barrel now that I have dropped my support for the bike movement in the Bay Area. Once a regular contributor and supporter of SF Bicycle Coalition and other groups, I send my money elsewhere.
it must. all of the bikers i see seem so P.O.ed all the time. no way am i doing that.
They're under a constant state of stress and so, perhaps naturally, they look for someone to blame for that. And what could be more convenient than, er, drivers and cars?
The problem is that their extreme emotions about this issue totally cloud their sense of reason, and all they can think of is ever banishing cars in their favour.
But in the end, cycling is an elitist form of private transit for, mostly, young affluent whites. I don't think I've ever seen an old, black woman on a bike in SF.
It's yuppiedom writ large and nasty.
I sympathize with your ignorance. It must be difficult getting through life with your amount of ignorance (including your racism and ageism).
The eliti$t form of private transit for the yuppiedom is the $UV (street utility vehicle). The yuppie sheep drive black or silver colored SUVs usually from my observations. Where have you been not to know this? Don't you ever get out? Or are you too busy on here trolling?
Meanwhile, I've been hearing more and more clunky bikes on the streets lately (including my own). I have to ride in 2nd because the chain jumps in 1st and I don't have the $ to fix it. The same must be true for others based on the clunky bikes I'm hearing. Most cyclists are not wealthy or concerned about status and from what I'm hearing on the streets many don't have the $ to repair their bikes because of the dead economy.
Does trolling pay well for you?
Agreed. I got rid of my car after calculating it was costing me $200 a month in gas and insurance. Now I bike. Plus it'll stave off the health problems which is handy given I can only afford catastrophic health insurance on my piddly wages.
I don't understand where this elitist BS comes from, except for the spandex dudes that commute to Marin. Students ride bikes, gutter punks ride bikes, there are loads of people of color in Oakland riding bikes. If you don't see the same diversity here, its because SF has been gentrified to death.
the slipping problem can likely be solved by adjusting the chain which operates it.
The Bike Hut on the Embarcadero near Pier 40 seems like a good place to get a bike repaired or maybe just cadge a few free tips on DIY.
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Life has been far from enjoyable for the Mockingbird Lake Community with docks under water and backyards washed away.
"If it keeps raining, keeps coming up, you're getting a little nervous at times. How far is this going to come to my house?" said Mockingbird Lake resident Daniel Hirsch.
"You can't even get to end of the dock," added resident Linda Cardillo.
A broken pipe is to blame for months of flooding problems.
Last week, our cameras were rolling while county workers installed a temporary pump in the lake to drain the water level.
County officials say throughout the six-day period the lake went down more than two feet.
"Off the edge of the dock it was 11 feet last week, and now it went down considerably," said Cardillo.
"We really appreciate what the county is doing because the water's got nowhere to go," said Hirsch.
Just days later, a huge difference can be noticed. Docks, beaches and palm trees are finally out of the water; however, there is still a long way to go, and getting there is the issue.
The hope was to remove the temporary pump this week and install a new pipe. Even though the lake drained considerably, county workers need it to go down another foot.
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Update: The 68-year-old Molalla woman who had her hand trapped under the hood of her truck for 18 hours earlier this week had to have it amputated. Her daughter says this won't slow down her mother.
"She's already talking about how they said it wont slow down her skiing or horseback riding. She said she will still be able to friction climb, whatever that is".
Doctor's did try several times to save her hand, but the injuries she sustained were too severe.
MOLALLA, Ore. (AP) – A fire official in Molalla, Ore., says a woman spent 18 hours standing with her hand stuck under the hood of her pickup truck. The woman, whose name was not released, was forced to stand the entire time, enduring chilly overnight temperatures and light snow. The fire official says the woman was hooking up a battery charger to her pickup's battery Wednesday afternoon when the hood slammed down on her hand. He describes her as "one tough lady."
Listen to the 911 call from good samaritans who discovered the victim:
According to Lt. Mike Penunuri – Molalla Fire District – "The whole time she was stuck, she couldn't kneel, she couldn't sit and she couldn't lean against the hood…" The Oregonian reports that Penunuri says the woman was dressed in multiple layers – including two or three shirts, a vest and jacket – and that likely saved her life. She was airlifted to a Portland hospital Thursday after neighbors out horseback riding heard her shouts and rallied neighbors to free her. She was brought inside to warm up where Molalla and Canby firefighters converged on the scene with the Oregon Department of Forestry near the 44700 block of South Prairie Road near Mt. Hood National Forest in the southern Molalla vicinity.
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Am I the only one tired of casual fans or "new" fans trying to pump up this Mayweather/Martinez fight? Fuck it, let it go, more than likely it wont happen. People are crying about Floyd moving up to 160 to fight Sergio, or Sergio coming down to 154...here's what will happen:
1. Floyd will possibly lose because of the weight (160) and other nuances that comes with it.
2. Sergio will come down to 154 and possibly hurt himself doing so (weight drained)
3. We've have a bunch of inbred trolls all over the net, arguing points #1 and #2
Dammit man, Sergio JUST fought 2 weeks ago, his knee or whatever the fuck it is, is jacked up, and his hand looks like shit. I haven't been reading around, but I've been hearing about him calling out Floyd. Not sure if these new bed-wetters out here are digging up old interviews of Sergio begging, or Sergio really wants another payday, regardless of his injuries.
Who in hell knows what Floyd is thinking about at the moment, either he's not thinking about boxing, or he's waiting for somebody to put on a big performance, to announce a comeback. Typical Floyd. Anyhow, Im tired of this retarded stuff, Floyd has only been out of jail for a little over a month, and Sergio is only 2 weeks removed from a fight that taxed his body in ways that he may not have wanted.
Maybe I'm just pissed up and tired of reading BS. Lol
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Im ok with it personally. He was once in just like Manny and Arum's other star slaves. He was getting the shitty end of the stick and having his pockets raided. He wasn't getting the big fights. He was always the next in line. Fighting guys that were serious threats but not popular enough to make him that worl renown supestar. Whatever secret him and Oscar discovered when they went Indie, for lack of a better term, worked. End of the day, if he committs to one guy, but then another guy emerges as the new flavor of the month, he's missing out on an opportunity to cash out big. Floyd fights the new "It" guy. So when competition reaches it's peak, he's right there to take the win out of their sail. That's why I now think he is licking his chops for Garcia to beat Judah. My guess is Floyd or Ellerbe make an appearance. Then around May 5th, we'll see Garcia swinging for the fences and getting counter punched to the tune of about 5 mill. Floyd will get yet another pay day. Only difference is that I think he will actualy fight Manny this year. I have a gut feeling that something is brewing. I also hav a gut feelin that arum will be none too pleased about it.
I agree about him getting a fighter at their peak, that's his best bet since he isn't a De La Hoya type draw. I mean they do about the same numbers nowadays, but Oscar fought more consistently, and was able to fight just about anybody around that time.
Garica is damn near at this peak, in regards to getting the attention that he deserves. So yes, I could see that possibly happening in the near future. I cant say that Danny's competition (aside from the Khan fight) would land him a Floyd fight, but the manner in which he's been winning, makes him seem like a huge threat.
What do you feel is brewing, in regards to the megafight?
I'm no boxing newbie. I'd like to see Matninez and Mayweather go at it at 154. Whats not to like about that? Who would you rather see Mayweather fight right now? We're obviously not gonna ever get the Pacquiao fight, so who else would be on the short list? When you look at the field of choices, ask yourself, why not Martinez.
On the other hand, I can think of many reasons that Mayweather may not want to see Martinez. They all have to do with matchup isses that wouldn't favor Mayweather. Martinez may have a reach advantage, so Mayweather wont fight him. The crazy thing is his online surrogates make several excuses for him to justify him not fighting Martinez or whoever. Yeah, I'd love to see that fight. Everyone says this guy is the best, then he should fight the best. Martinez is one of the best. If they both make 154, size is not an issue, its an excuse...
Well of course you're no boxing newbie Mr. Factor, lol. I wouldn't mind seeing it either, but seriously, I went on that rant because of "fans" who hardly watch the sport, have the nerve to start demanding fights after they've seen 1 or 2 out 30 fights a year. Casual fan are valuable in terms of PPV buys and TV ratings, but they take it a bit too far. '
I guess guys like us, know how the sport works, and most of us are smart enough not to get worked up and excited about some fights that wont happen, due to money. As for that arm length advantage, Floyd has it by 2 inches.
At this point, I cant and wont make excuses as to why he shouldn't fight Sergio. I just stated the facts in regards to business, and how Im almost sure it wont happen. At this point, he just needs to be fighting consistently, regardless of who he fights.
I just dont think that its fair, how he messes things up when another fighter gets he hot. We as fans, sit back patiently, wait for these fights to happen, assess them, and hope to see who blossoms. Then Floyd waits til the iron is hot, then strikes, makes his money, and leave...leaving the division in crumbles. All Im saying is, either fight on a somewhat consistent basis (twice in a calender year), or stay away.
floyd is the highest paid athlete in pro sports... stop the broke talk.
I guess we should've "stopped with the broke talk" when Tyson and Holyfield were spending crazy money too, huh?
One of them was spending crazy money, claiming the holy ghost while having several illegitimate children (that he couldn't/can't afford), and made the highest guaranteed purse in boxing history (at that time).
The other was spending crazy money, banging prostitutes, and getting knee-deep in several lawsuits as well as jail time.
Floyd falls somewhere in the middle of these two guys, but we should stop the broke talk, right? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)
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In danger of falling to 2-4, the Dallas Cowboys will try to avoid their third straight loss of the year when they visit quarterback Cam Newton and the dangerous Carolina Panthers in a Sunday afternoon showdown.
Despite throwing for 1,409 yards and seven touchdowns on the year thus far, Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has also thrown nine interceptions — six in the last two weeks — to dampen the fast start to Dallas's season.
The Panthers will look to end a three-game losing streak of their own when they welcome the Cowboys to town, and will need to contain Romo and the Cowboys' top-ranked passing offense. The Panthers' passing defense is ranked 19th in the league entering the contest.
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Smithfield Fruit Market...would you call it that. I always think of the Markets area as separate from Smithfield. Preliminary works have already begun on the Market Hall. Interesting collection of images here http://www.dublincityarchitects.ie/?p=98#more-98
Public realm is a key to the success of the Markets I would think. Its is uniformly awful in this part of the city. Perhaps this might help http://dubcitybeta.wordpress.com/
From Monday May 21st to Thursday, 24th May, Dublin City Council will lead planning experts from eleven European countries who are in Dublin on a series of professional workshops on how best to regenerate "brownfield" lands in the City; abandoned or underused industrial and commercial facilities available for re-use, including derelict sites, sites left empty as a result of businesses moving out of premises, in-fill sites that would improve the local area if they were developed sensitively and public spaces that would benefit an area if they were regenerated. Dublin City Council is a working with partners from 11 different countries, including Northern Ireland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Finland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Austria, in a 3-year Interregional Cooperation Programme Interreg IVC Brownfield Convention project. The overall objective of the programme is "to improve regional policies influencing Brownfield redevelopment through transfer of best practice".
According to John Tierney, Dublin City Manager, there are an estimated 200 or more "brownfield" sites between the canals of all different shapes and sizes "There is a necklace of underutilised sites along the LUAS Red Line alone, extending from the inner city as far out as the Naas Road", he said, "and there are enormous opportunities for developing innovative policies on brownfield development and re-use throughout the city".
Prominent brownfield sites in the city include CIE site opposite the Jervis Centre, the Fishmarket at Mary's Lane, an OPW site at Hammond Lane, the former Distillers Premises, Smithfield, and the former Dulux Factory on Davitt Road. Newmarket in the Liberties is a public space in need of regeneration and one that the European experts will visit and give any insights they have, as a result of similar successfully regenerated sites in their cities. The City Manager is convinced that "the successful turnaround of brownfield sites depends on a buy–in, with the owners, with local businesses and with local people to see if there are opportunities to move ahead with improving or regenerating any of the sites".
"With regeneration comes possibilities for increased investment in infrastructure in the city and associated job creation opportunities", noted John Tierney. "The successful and sustainable turnaround of Brownfield sites is vital to the creation of a quality European City. This EU programme is one where Dublin can contribute to and learn from our European colleagues".
Of special interest to Dublin is its partnership with Belfast City Council, and their recent successful experience in Brownfield regeneration, with the Titanic Quarter.
Dublin's Lord Mayor Andrew Montague is firmly of the view that Dublin will learn from each of our E.U. partner's successes and experiences, which will influence, and improve the City Council's policies on tackling some of the more difficult, long-term derelict and vacant sites.
"The visit by the eleven European experts this week presents an opportunity to examine how our Brownfield lands can be integrated with surrounding local infrastructure, such as public transport, schools and public parks," says Lord Mayor Andrew Montague. "The workshops will analyse some of Dublin's more successful Brownfield renewal projects such as Temple Bar in the 1990's and Dublin Docklands, which now includes a new residential quarter, and landmarks such as the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, the Samuel Beckett Bridge and Google HQ.
"Following exposure to Dublin's Brownfield Sites, the EU partners will act as a think-tank in workshops, to set forward innovative ideas and best practice examples which could be transferred to Dublin's study sites. As a consequence, Dublin City Council aspires to transfer the relevant data into future Brownfield regeneration projects, ultimately resulting in the creation of jobs and new homes in the city, and also reducing the pressure for unsustainable sprawl outside our city" the Lord Mayor concluded.
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AN INITIATIVE to put some 200 vacant, abandoned or derelict sites in Dublin city back into productive use is being developed by Dublin City Council.
Planning experts from nine different European countries are in Dublin this week to advise on how best to address the capital's growing numbers of "brownfield" sites which have become a blight on the city.
Brownfield lands – commercial and industrial sites which have fallen into disuse or become derelict – had become a major problem in the city up to the 1980s when tax incentives were introduced for their redevelopment.
Such incentives were instrumental in the renewal of Temple bar and the Dublin Docklands. The economic boom years also increased development of former industrial sites in the centre of the city.
However, the abrupt end to the boom has left a legacy of new brownfield sites as properties were bought and often demolished by developers who then ran out of money to build on the land.
City planner John O'Hara said site owners and the council needed to take a step back from the grand projects of the boom which were no longer practicable and look at realistic short and medium-term uses of the land.
"We have seen the large plots that were granted permission in the excitement of the boom that are now vacant or underused sites. In places where le grand project has fallen flat on its face everything has ground to a halt."
The larger the site the bigger the problem posed as banks were unlikely to release substantial funds for their redevelopment. However, smaller-scale uses were an option for these sites such as "hot desking", where sole traders and start-up businesses can rent short-term office space, or the use of vacant plots for markets or arts and events spaces.
"The idea is to keep an area buoyant, to put a space back on people's mental map, maybe through small-scale shops or residential use. It's not to say that all big projects are bad, but we need to kick-start the use of the land if confidence is to be restored. And that includes the confidence of the banks," said Mr O'Hara.
The council would be approaching the owners of all 200 sites and offering to write design briefs for them, with which they can then approach banks or estate agents.
The council had fallen foul of the hubris of the boom with grand plans which were no longer achievable.
"Newmarket Square is a failure. The Liberties Local Area Plan had in mind offices and a hotel and residential development for the square. That isn't going to happen now, at least not in the immediate future," said Mr O'Hara.
However, he added that the square did offer opportunities for smaller more considered development, such as the Sunday flea market which had already started, and potential for collaboration with the nearby National College of Art and Design.
The square is one of the brownfield sites which the European planners will be asked to consider this week.
Other prominent locations identified as needing intervention include the former CIÉ site on Upper Abbey Street, the Fishmarket at Mary's Lane and an Office of Public Works site at Hammond Lane.
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Matt Bergquist had three hits and knocked in six runs to power NC State past UNCW, 17-5, on Sunday in an elimination game at Doak Field at the NCAA Raleigh Regional.
The Wolfpack (41-18) advanced to the regional final against Vanderbilt and will need two wins to advance to the Super Regional round. The Seahawks were eliminated with the loss and concluded their season with a record of 39-23.
NCSU built a 10-4 lead after six innings thanks in part to a seven-run fourth inning, as 11 hitters made their way to the plate. Bergquist and Andrew Ciencin fueled the big inning with a two-run double and a three-run homer, respectively.
UNCW starter Mat Batts (6-5) took the loss, allowing eight runs, six earned, on eight hits and a walk in 3 1/3 innings.
Trailing 9-1 in the sixth, UNCW plated three runs off winning pitcher Ethan Ogburn (5-3). Tyler Molinaro knocked in the first two runs with a double to left center and Hunter Ridge plated him with a single to right to make it 9-4.
NCSU answered with a run in the bottom of the frame on Ciencin's double down the leftfield line. Chris Diaz, who scored on the hit, finished 4-for-5 with three runs scored and three knocked in. Ciencin also collected three hits and drove in four on the afternoon.
Ogburn fanned seven in 8 2/3 innings and allowed five runs on nine hits.
For the Seahawks, Matt Campbell and Andrew Cain delivered home runs as UNCW set a school record for homers in a NCAA regional with eight, passing the 2003 club that connected on seven homers at LSU.
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Lebanon — The Lebanon 12U Softball All-Stars advanced to the state championship game Tuesday night.
The Tigers won a close 1-0 decision of Don Ayres Times Corner (Fort Wayne) in the semifinals Tuesday afternoon.
"It feels great," Lebanon head coach Debbie Redman said. "These girls have earned it. It is just a great feeling."
Unlike when the two teams met in pool play, when Lebanon won 12-9, this game was a pitchers' duel from the beginning.
Don Ayres managed just two hits in the game, both singles that didn't get out of the infield.
Lebanon managed five hits, with Payton Ray and Payten Redman each hitting two. The other came on a single by Kaitlyn Blevins.
Lebanon used their speed to score the game's lone run.
Back-to-back two-out singles by Redman and Blevins put runners on second and third in the fourth inning.
Taylor Wagoner showed bunt, and with the corners charging in, Redman stole third. The Don Ayres catcher threw to third but no one was on the bag and the throw went into left field, allowing Redman to score.
"Our hustle was the difference," coach Redman said. "Like I have been saying all tournament, thank goodness for fast girls. That won us the ballgame today."
It was the first time all tournament that Lebanon had to play a low tight scoring game.
They will play defending state and region champion Riverfield at 5 p.m. Tuesday for the state title.
Redman was happy the girls won a close game, but there was a small downside.
"It is good to win like that, but we had to burn our No. 1 pitcher (Payten Redman)," the coach said. "But I have faith in our younger girls. I think they are going to give it their all next game. I think it is going to be a great game. Win or lose, I am so proud of these girls."


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---- — ANDERSON — Iquise Taylor is back in the Madison County Jail after being cleared by a state-run psychiatric facility in Logansport.
Taylor was transported to the jail on Wednesday, jail commander Andy Williams said. While Taylor was not under Madison County supervision at the facility, Williams said he was kept under tight security while he was in the Logansport facility.
Taylor, 17, was accused of raping 93-year-old Amelia Rudolph in July. In October, before his trial began, he was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial by Madison Circuit Court 3 Judge Thomas Newman. The judge ordered Taylor to the facility for treatment and further evaluation. Newman fully intended to have Taylor brought back to stand trial once he was cleared by doctors.
Nancy Reed of Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings' office said Taylor has now been deemed fit to stand trial by the doctors at the facility. Cummings was unavailable for comment on Tuesday.
Reed said no dates have been set for a new trial or further hearings. Taylor's trial was originally scheduled to begin Nov. 5 but was suspended indefinitely.
The Herald Bulletin doesn't usually release the names of victims, but Rudolf agreed to be identified and spoke publicly at a press conference in August. At the meeting, she said she's been unable to return to the home where the attack happened. Her family has called for a harsh punishment for the suspect if he's convicted.
Officially, Taylor is being charged with burglary resulting in bodily injury, a Class A felony; criminal deviate conduct, a Class B felony; criminal confinement, a Class C felony; and strangulation, a Class D felony.
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The Boston Celtics are a quarter of the way to sweeping their four-game season series with the Miami Heat, holding a 22-21 lead after the first quarter of play. Kevin Garnett has 11 of Boston's 22 points, making all four field goals he has attempted (including a three-pointer) and both of his free throw attempts.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WDRB) -- What has been often speculated has come to pass -- point guard Ryan Harrow is leaving the University of Kentucky.Harrow will transfer to Georgia State, according to a report in this morning's Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The story says Harrow is making the move to be closer to his father, who suffered a stroke before last season."I really need to be home with him to be closer to him to make sure he's taken care of," Harrow said.UK coach John Calipari was non-committal on Harrow's return to the team after the Wildcats finished their season with a loss to Robert Morris in the NIT.Harrow told the newspaper he will petition the NCAA to be able to play immediately next season, and that he leaves UK with positive feelings about the school and the program."I got better there," Harrow told the newspaper. "I built some relationships there. I know next year we would have been really good. It was just real important for me to be with my dad. With him being sick like this, I needed to be there with him."Copyright 2013 WDRB News. All Rights Reserved.
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A SOUTH Cerney ex-army medic who was exposed to depleted uranium in Iraq is fighting to raise more than £100,000 for lifesaving treatment in America.
Katrina Brown is in a race against time to raise the money before the window of opportunity to treat her rare condition closes.
Treatment for systemic sclerosis is not available on the NHS, so her husband Martin, family and friends in 29 Regt are desperately trying to raise enough money to send her for specialist immunotherapy in Chicago.
Katrina, 30, a combat medic technician who spent three months caring for staff at a 600-bed hospital near Basra 10 years ago, said the cause of the condition was not fully known, but it was thought to be linked to exposure to certain chemicals.
Like other service personnel at the base where missiles from the first Gulf War were stored, when she left she was told she had been exposed to depleted uranium.
She said: "It's not the army's fault. I was just doing my job. I just want to raise the money and get the treatment."
Katrina served five years in the army before working in hospital operating theatres.
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Jim Carl may be the busiest guy in Durham.
As senior director and film curator at Durham's Carolina Theatre, Carl programs and oversees all film offerings at the venue, including the annual North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (NCGLFF), running this past Friday through this Sunday. This year, Carl has programmed a total of 116 feature films, shorts and documentaries from 15 countries.
That's on top of the three repertory series Carl curates – RetroClassics, Retrofantasma and RetroTreasures – plus the theater's regular first-run offerings.
So yes, busy. Speaking from his office at the Carolina, Carl was out of breath as he discussed this year's NCGLFF program.
"We introduced the audience awards last year, and it turned out to be quite a success," Carl said. "So this year we're expanding. Most films are balloted, meaning that it's now a competition festival. People can vote on their favorite films for best women's feature, best men's feature, best documentary and so on."
Now in its 18th year, the NCGLFF began in the mid-1990s as a tiny weekend series affiliated with the North Carolina Pride March that drew a few hundred people. It's been growing ever since. Last year, the festival expanded to a full 10-day run and seated more than 15,000 patrons.
Carl said this year's slate includes films from North Carolina filmmakers as well as international films from Iran, Japan and the Netherlands. Each year, one or two films come into the festival with an elevated level of buzz.
" Southern Baptist Sissies' seems to be the big hit this year," Carl said. Directed by playwright Del Shores, the film follows the story of four boys who grew up in the Southern Baptist church, following each through adolescence and adulthood. The film will screen this weekend – 7 p.m. Saturday and 7:15 p.m. Sunday.
Another film generating a lot of interest is "I Am Divine," a documentary on the drag icon made famous in the films of John Waters. "I Am Divine" will be shown Friday at 5:10 p.m. and Sunday at 3:05 p.m.
Carl said the expanded 10-day schedule has allowed him to broaden the scope of the festival, including more of the retro programming that the Carolina is already known for.
"We're doing a free family day on the second weekend, with 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' " Carl said. "It's not necessarily a film that has LGBT connections, but it is the kind of film people like to see back on the big screen with their friends and family."
The festival will also screen the 1982 musical comedy "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." Why this film?
"It has to do with Colin Higgins, the director," Carl said. "He was openly gay and directed three of the biggest box office hits of the '70s and '80s – 'Foul Play,' 'Nine to Five' and 'Whorehouse' – before he died of AIDS at the age of 47 in 1988. I thought this program would be a nice way to finally bring him forward into the spotlight. Rarely has such an artist had such a winning streak and the box office for mainstream films and yet received such little recognition."
The 116 films in this year's fest will unspool on three different screens throughout the festival with evening screenings on the weekdays in between. After months of wrangling films and programming the event, Carl said he's exhausted but happy. "I'm just glad it's finally here."


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- Communication between the Penn State Office of Admissions and high schools has been improved
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- The process of informing guidance counselors about the status of each student's admission to Penn State was reorganized into a monthly summary sheet sent to the guidance counselors, including all the students who have applied to Penn State from the high school
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