Who is Jason Henderson?
Like it did recently on Josh Wilson's congestion pricing op-ed, the Chronicle fails to tell readers about the identity of a source with an anti-car agenda.
Jason Henderson is quoted in a story on closing a block to traffic on Octavia Boulevard in Hayes Valley:
Jason Henderson is quoted in a story on closing a block to traffic on Octavia Boulevard in Hayes Valley:
“We want a city that has families and children, so we have to create open space,” said Jason Henderson, a Hayes Valley resident who is also a professor of geography and environment at San Francisco State University. “When you do things like remove a freeway or repurpose a street, you make room for playgrounds and basketball courts.”
Anyone involved in transportation issues in San Francisco in recent years knows that Henderson is an anti-car and pro-bike zealot. In fact one of the courses he teaches at SF State is Bicycle Geographies that gives students credit for riding a bike in the city:
Bicycle Geographies topics include planning for bicycling in cities, bicycle culture, bicycle politics, and local, national, and global bicycling trends. There are numerous bicycle field trips in and around San Francisco. The class will also partner with SF State's Transportation Committee to survey bicycling trends at SF State and assist in the annual "bike to campus" event in May.
Henderson even wrote a book on bikes and anti-carism in San Francisco, which I've written about several times.
Anything that makes it harder to drive in San Francisco gets Henderson's support, including of course taking away that block in Hayes Valley.
Henderson has an intimate relationship with Hayes Valley, since he's a long-time member of the Market & Octavia Community Advisory Committee, a group that has helped City Hall degrade that part of town with the disastrous Market/Octavia Plan and the Octavia Blvd. fiasco that came after taking down the Central Freeway overpass.
What does Henderson propose to deal with our traffic problems? Zero parking!
Oh, it's going to be so cool when all the cars are gone and we all can safely ride bicycles in our highrise/smart growth city!
Labels: Anti-Car, Bicycle Coalition, City Government, Examiner, History, Jason Henderson, John King, Market/Octavia, Neighborhoods, Octavia Blvd., Parking, Planning Dept., SF Chronicle, Traffic in SF
posted by Rob Anderson @ 2:55 PM
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I sincerely doubt that some of the people making the city "safe for bikes" will even be around in about 20 year. Ohhh how i would hope that when these people hit, say 65-70 years of age, they find out how useful personal transportation is to get to the store and bring back groceries...or get to a doctor's appointment. Not everyone wants to ride MUNIiserable, as Herb Caen use to say. Not everyone cares to pay $15 for urber or another shared transit...sometimes a personal car which one has bought with their own hard earned cash is what they want to use.
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