News, Links, and Other Views

City of San Diego

  • A strange and dangerous curb in the bike lane on Harbor Drive was removed after bicycle advocate Chuck Perkins, Bike SD, and local news publicized the dangerous condition.
  • San Diego Mayor, Kevin Faulconer, has focused his proposed budget on paving 300 miles of roads and has pledged to repave 1,000 miles in the next five years.
  • The City of San Diego is expected to approve a $225,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought by cyclist who was injured by a motorist on Santa Fe Street alleging defective design of the bike lane.
  • Is San Diego Bay or Mission Bay more polluted? It turns out that after a century of pollution that is a hard question to answer.

San Diego Region

  • SANDAG and the City of Encinitas will be holding a community meeting to get input on the segment of the Coastal Rail Trail from Chesterfield Drive to E Street.
  • Carlsbad has launched a Walk and Bike Carlsbad campaign to educate residents about safe biking and walking routes.
  • Coronado living: put the kids in the bike trailer and take the ferry to explore San Diego.
  • Construction to make Highway 101 more pedestrian and bicycle friendly in Leucadia is scheduled to begin 3 years from now in 2018, the Encinitas City Council is asking whether the process can be accelerated.
  • Residents of Cardiff face dangerous conditions as their neighborhood becomes an on-ramp for motorists violating traffic laws to access I-5.

Elsewhere

  • A bike racer and a stunt man driving a Ferrari raced in rush hour Los Angeles traffic to see which mode of transportation was faster.
  • The first parking-protected bicycle lane has been built on Reseda Blvd in Los Angeles.
  • In Tuscon Arizona, two teenagers were busted for trying to smuggle cannabis across the border in their bicycle tires.
  • The King Street Cycletrack in Honolulu will soon be getting 13 new bicycle-specific traffic signals.
  • One of the top cycling cities in the UK, York, is opening a new cycle route in the north of the city.
  • The Seattle DOT is working on updating its Bicycle Master Plan to create a network of protected bike lanes.
  • The Burlington Free Press calls for more protected bike lanes and roundabouts as the United States falls behind other nations in making streets safe for pedestrians and cyclists.
  • A new protected bike lane is under construction in Upper Manhattan.
  • A survey highlights the shame that in the United States more than half of Americans never ride a bike and that most who ride do so as a leisure activity.