Foto Friday: The Case for Making the Urban Core and the Beach Communities more Bike Friendly

Below is an image of the map of San Diego depicted through bike collisions. This collision heat map depicts the collisions that involve a bicycle and was prepared for us by the very talented Joe Punsalan who works at the planning firm, KTU&A, and it was designed (for informational purposes) to show the density of car/bike collisions around the city between 2006 and 2010. To view the map in greater detail, you can view the pdf as well.

City of San Diego Bicycle Collision Density. Thanks to Joe Punsalan at KTU&A for creating the map

What does this map tell us? It indicates where people are both riding and getting hurt (or dying). The maps also demonstrates the need to prioritize implementing bicycle infrastructure projects in those parts of the city that have the highest rates of collisions. Not having the sort of infrastructure that separates bicycle traffic from motor vehicle traffic isn’t good for the health or vitality of our city if our residents are getting hurt or dying. Our city’s residents need to have the infrastructure that allows them to get around safely and comfortably and we’re glad that both the North Park – Mid-City Regional Bike Corridors Project and the  Uptown Regional Bike Corridor Project are both underway as part of SANDAG’s 10 year early action projects – i.e. projects to be implemented in 10 years.

The next North Park – Mid-City Regional Bike Corridor Project meeting will be held on:

March 6, 2013

6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Sunset Temple
3911 Kansas Street
San Diego, CA 92104

Here is the agenda for the meeting. On Monday we’ll post our case for implementing protected bicycle infrastructure on El Cajon Boulevard.