The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (www.sfbike.org), revived 16 years ago by disgruntled cyclists, has emerged as one of the most potent political forces in the city.
The organization, founded in 1970, went into hibernation through the 1980s and was reborn in 1990. Now — with a paid membership of 5,800 and its top executive sitting on the board overseeing San Francisco’s public transit, parking and traffic operations — the bike coalition is moving aggressively to enact its goal of making the streets of San Francisco a bicycling mecca “where cars are rare and travel slowly.”
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