Interesting news titbits from around the web
From around San Diego:
- The 22 mile multi-use trail path between Escondido and Oceanside is finally moving along toward completion.
- The larger Cabrillo ferry used to link Coronado to San Diego is current being serviced and has been replaced by the smaller ferry with no bike racks. However, bikes are still welcome on the ferry for no additional charge.
- North County residents continue to hotly debate the SANDAG Regional Transportation Plan scheduled to be approved by the SANDAG board later this week.
- A car collision changes one Mission Hills woman’s life forever and for the better.
- Caltrans awards the Safe Routes to School Program in San Diego $5 million. The money will go toward improving conditions so that more children will be encouraged to walk and bicycle to school.
- CityBeat’s Peter Holsin decides to write about San Diego’s Bike Polo, joins in a game and decides he likes it very much.
- The Executive Director of San Dieguito River Park Joint Powers Authority writes about offering more options to San Diegans who want to leave their car behind.
- In a move that is reminiscent of the past when Prop 13’s passage prompted the SDPD to begin a bike patrol program in 1978, and then presumably ended, the SDPD moves to trade patrol cars for bikes.
From around California and beyond:
- A wonderful mini-documentary about CicLAvia. Another 172 days before the next CicLAvia begins.
- Jan Gehl’s Incremental Approach to Urbanism – Gehl is a famed urbanist responsible in a large part for making Copenhagen what it is today. Gehl’s philosophy includes looking at the urban environment as a habitat for human beings that human beings would feel welcome being a part of. Part of the vision to get residents to re-imagine the city without the car is to create spaces that are temporarily closed to automobile traffic, not unlike CicLAvia. Here in San Diego, the group of advocates working on bringing our own CicLAvia to San Diego have received tremendous support but have been unable to find an organization or agency willing to take on a role to receive funds and then disburse it to pay for the closure of streets (primary expenses are for SDPD and for insurance)