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San Diego
- Plaza de Panama used to be a parking lot. Now assertive little young girls get to trot out their bike skills in the beautiful car-free plaza as Cecily demonstrates in the video below.
- Meanwhile besides cutting down a tree, no changes have been made to Catalina Boulevard and Cañon Street after a child was killed by a driver.
- There has been some good discussion in our comments, including whether one needs to wear lycra for a short ride to the neighborhood restaurant.
- Uptown merchants worry whether safer streets trumps their need for free public parking spaces.
- Justice moves slowly: Woman accused of hitting Fiesta Island (last summer) cyclists to face hearing
- Another writeup of this year’s Bikes and Beer
- How to make sure we meet the goals outlined in Mayor Faulconer’s excellent Climate Action Plan, charge market rate cost for parking: It’s Amazing How Many More Commuters Would Drive Less if They Didn’t Get Free Parking
- Right now in San Diego, a long-brewing plan to add better pedestrian crossings and a continuous protected bike lane to the deadliest corridor in the city is fighting for its life in large part because some merchants on four commercial blocks don’t want to risk removing any auto parking.
- Editorial: Finding compromise for safer streets
- The case for lower speed limits
- The Gran Fondo was a success.
- Why not go car-less in Mission Bay?
- A great profile of our board member, John Anderson.
- After bikes were stolen from the Wounded Warriors, San Diegans helped raise $25K to replace their bicycles.
- Downtown San Diego by Bike – changes coming
San Diego County
- Sadly, attendance was poor at Escondido’s Ciclovia
- Imperial Beach will soon have a Bikeway Village
- Encinitas is finally taking action to remove goathead thorns.
- Supervisor Cox is recognized for his efforts in implementing the Bayshore Bikeway.
- An armored truck ran over a rider in La Mesa critically injuring him. No word on the results of the investigation.
California
- A new proposed alert system could help with catching hit-and-run drivers
- Fighting Climate Change Is Not Hurting CA Economy: It’s Contributing
- A Bay Area issue: limiting the number of people riding bicycles
- SANDAG has a new PR campaign to encourage everyone to try bicycling.
- New App Reminds Us State Parks Aren’t Just for White People
Elsewhere
- Will drones help with making urban design better? Perhaps.
- Downtown Denver’s development boom adds vibrancy, subtracts parking
- French government launches new law allowing it to ban half the private cars in Paris
- Why parking spaces shouldn’t always be wasted on cars
- Congestion pricing in London has led to a dramatic fall in auto crashes.
- A psychological analysis behind road rage. Maybe if drivers tried bicycling, they’d be happier.
- The New Retirement Community is Bicycle Friendly
- Our cities must undergo a revolution for older people
- A 2011 national survey found that 78 percent of Americans want nothing new built in their communities. They are not against new development—just any new development near them, and they are organizing to stop it.
- In “1999, only 115 children nationwide were victims of a “stereotypical kidnapping” by a stranger; the overwhelming majority were abducted by a family member. That same year, 2,931 children under 15 died as passengers in car accidents.”
- In Denver’s downtown, there has been an increase of 43% bike ridership after the streets were made safer.
- The Cities That Spend The Most On Bike Lanes Later Reap The Most Reward
- How Bike Lanes & Shared Streets Pay for Themselves, and Then Some
- Record $21 million settlement issued to bicyclists hit by Hostess truck in Virginia
- Are self-described libertarians stopping cities from progress?
- Do you hate those victim-blaming ads, someone did something about one in D.C.
- Bicycling connects communities
- How much do you pay when you decide how you want to travel? How much does society pay?
- Urban sprawl costs US economy more than $1 trillion per year
- “Big Asphalt” (parking lots) has compromised our health, safety, and welfare—but we can defeat it if we try.