News, Links, and Other Views
City of San Diego
- The City Council unanimously approved a bike share program, scheduled to open in 2014, more details here.
- A 14 year-old bicyclist was hit by a car in Loma Portal.
- SANDAG presented a plan to connect the airport and the trolley, but not with a trolley stop at the airport, instead the plan is to build a pedestrian bridge over Pacific Highway and then provide shuttle buses to the airport.
- A letter to the editor in the Uptown News (second letter on page) points out the problems with the implementation of the Rapid Bus Project along Park Boulevard.
- The Greater Golden Hill Planning Committee would like to see a “super deck” constructed over State Route 94.
- In order to get more people to attend their events the University Heights Community Development Corporation recommends walking, biking, or taking public transportation to their Friday night Trolley Barn Park concerts.
- A report from the public meeting discussing proposed improvements to the Rose Creek bike path.
- The Ocean Beach Planning Board has approved the draft of their new community plan.
- San Diego faces at least a $898 million infrastructure backlog.
- Karl Strauss will be opening a cyclist friendly tasting room at their main brewery on Santa Fe Street.
San Diego Region
- SANDAG has reached out to National City in order to seek input on their various regional plans.
- The California Environmental Protection Agency has released a tool to track pollution by ZIP code, Barrio Logan and National City top the list in San Diego County.
Elsewhere
- A UCLA/San Diego State study finds that 12th graders are increasingly willing to use bicycles and public transportation instead of cars.
- A cyclist is in critical condition after a motorist in Monrovia did donuts around him and crashed into him.
- Arkansas authorities are not sure whether they will press charges against a motorist who killed one cyclist and injured six others.
- Cyclist confront the Illinois Department of Transportation about the department’s refusal to allow construction of protected bike lanes.
- An article points out the connection between bad infrastructure design and cyclists rolling through stop signs and going the wrong way on one way streets.
- Despite all the bike infrastructure improvements in New York, crosstown routes still remain a problem.
- Memphis is working towards building a network of cycle tracks across the city.
- Toronto police may start tracking when cyclists are doored.
- Calgary’s first cycle track is now open.
- The recent BART strike in San Francisco caused some commuters to start biking to work.
- New York’s bike share program has turned out to be an instant success, which has given New Yorkers one more thing to worry about.
- A guide to Portland’s bike boxes, designed to protect cyclists from right turns at intersections.
- The pope jokes that priests will have to travel by bicycle instead of expensive cars.