News, Links, and Other Views

January 10, 2013
|In News
|By BikeSD Staff

City of San Diego

  • UnderstandingSD is a website that does a good job explaining the complicated process of how things get built in San Diego and is a great resource for bike advocates interested in infrastructure improvements.
  • Nicole Burgess was featured in an article highlighting her outstanding bike advocacy efforts in OB and around San Diego.
  • A cyclist was killed where Clairemont Mesa Boulevard merges with the 805.  The details are still not completely clear, however the incident has prompted discussion about the dangerous design of this interchange.  How many people need to die before San Diego fixes this?
  • The yearly increase in cycling fatalities received coverage in the Union Tribune.
  • City Council President Todd Gloria and Mayor Bob Filner had a bit of a conflict regarding who has the authority to nominate members of SANDAG.

San Diego Region

  • Imperial Beach will be getting a 2.1 million dollar bike route that will connect the Bayshore Bikeway to the beach.
  • San Marcos is seeking a 2 million dollar SANDAG grant, in order to build a “complete street” project including a bike path.
  • Encinitas is putting on a Wellness Week January 19-26, including a bike ride from downtown Encinitas to Cardiff State Beach.
  • In Ramona debate continues about the proposed straightening of San Vincente Road.
  • The Carlsbad City Council has decided that developers can defer paying infrastructure improvement fees for their projects.
  • Oceanside City Councilman Jack Feller has replaced Mayor Jim Wood as Oceanside’s SANDAG representative.

Elsewhere

  • Click here for a good article on the possibility of reforming CEQA (the California Environmental Quality Act) without gutting current environmental protections.
  • Instead of requiring safe streets designed for pedestrians and cyclists, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to make us safer by requiring electric cars to make noise.
  • In Boston, as more people ride bikes the city confronts the problem of unsafe streets.
  • Memphis also confronts growing pains as it decides between bike lanes and street parking.
  • Harvard is reimbursing bike commuters for bicycle-related expenses.
  • In San Francisco they are finding out that paint (even green paint) does not stop cars, a lesson New York seems to have learned.
  • The LA Times wonders if the solution to overcrowding in Yosemite could be less cars, more bikes.
  • Chicago has unveiled America’s “greenest street” . . . why are the bikes shunted out into traffic?