** LOVE YOUR CITY **

"And then to the rarest treasure, Golden Gate Park on a
car-free Sunday morning, the air wet and clean, the
meadows green with the promise of spring. Not a single
automobile: The silence is deafening, you can actually
hear the branches dripping moisture, squirrels
scrambling through the underbrush - and the birds!
Hundreds of redbreasted robins bobbing across the lawns,
now that there are no cars to frighten them. On Stanyan,
the families are renting bikes and heading into the
winding trails.

"Slowly it dawns on them that they can use the main
drive and the roads. For once the world does not belong
to the automobile. The bicycle is king again and the
rider may go where fancy dictates without looking
nervously over his shoulder. You are even allowed, for a
few unrealistic minutes, to reflect on how pleasant life
would be if the car were banned from San Francisco."

Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, 1/28/73

** DITCH YOUR CAR **