News, Links, and Other Views
City of San Diego
- On Tuesday evening a cyclist was hit by a car that careened off I-5 onto a surface street (it appears to be Santa Fe Street). Video of the scene here.
- The Mission Valley Planning Group heard a presentation about the high-intensity activated crosswalk beacon (HAWK) planned for installation on Mission Center Road.
- Bill Fulton, the city’s new Planning Director is on the job and has met with the North Park Planning Committee.
- A CicloSDias Mini will be held Sunday June 21st at Golden Hill Park.
- The La Jolla Village Merchants Association heard a presentation about the city’s coming bike share.
San Diego Region
- The UT notes that although “getting people to bike more may not lessen dependency on the car” it sure is good exercise and a popular recreational pastime, so they applaud “what appears to be a countywide trend to make our streets more bike friendly.”
- Previously the UT printed an opinion piece entitled “Bicycles are not future of transportation” stating that “to propose bicycle ridership as a serious component of urban transportation is specious folly.”
- In a (perhaps unintended) acknowledgement that automobiles are not the best way to move large groups of people the UT provided transit tips for getting to Comic-Con and the Del Mar racetrack.
- The Bikeway Village project in Imperial Beach may receive a grant from the California Coastal Commission to add a 50 bed hostel to the project.
- The North County Transit District considers changing their email retention policy from 2 years to 60 days.
- San Diego County considers using eminent domain to widen a road near Ramona.
- The Coaster has released an app for Android that allows you to purchase tickets from your mobile device.
- SANDAG is offering motorists a clean slate after acquisition of the bankrupt South Bay Expressway, the expressway also got some new help with marketing.
Elsewhere
- A cyclist responds to the “Summer of Cycling” articles published by a Los Angeles newspaper group (the original publishers of “Bicycles are not future of transportation” reprinted by the UT).
- Some examples from South Carolina, Memphis, and New York City of how bikes are good for business.
- As Seattle plans to open a bike share, discussion starts about the city’s mandatory bike helmet law.
- More information about Seattle’s new cycle tracks, as well as a call for more investment in safe bicycle infrastructure.
- Cities that would like to become more bicycle friendly, may find a new book, Cycle Infrastructure, useful. It includes a survey of best-practices for bike infrastructure design from around the world.
- Construction started on first phase of Atlanta’s two-way cycle track along 10th Street.
- A poorly designed bikeway in Connecticut will have to be fixed thanks to a mandatory deadline from the Architectural Access Board.
- The future of Market Street in San Francisco is still yet to be decided.
- Dallas considers turning an old bridge into a park.
- Without physical barriers, bike lanes become popular parking spots for government vehicles.
- Cyclists in Minnesota advocate for cycle tracks during the once-in-50-year opportunity brought about by the reconstruction of Minnehaha and Washington avenues.
- A letter to the editor in Indiana, asking for the same protection for bicyclist that is given to highway workers.
- Cycling has increased five-fold in Buenos Aires as the city has constructed protected bike lanes, added a bike share, and required spaces for bicycles in parking garages.
- In an effort to be “number one” Chicago is “stepping up” and analyzing bicycle crash data and pinpointing the city’s most dangerous intersections.
- A call for protected bike lanes in Savannah Georgia.
- Scion has apologized for it’s “King of the Coupe” commercial that showed one of its cars chasing after bicyclists on the street.