News, Links, and Other Views

October 17, 2013
|In News
|By BikeSD Staff

City of San Diego

  • The mayoral candidates talked to the UT about their plans for San Diego neighborhoods.
  • After being hit by a car on Santa Fe Street a cyclist is suing San Diego, alleging that defective bike lane and street design created a concealed trap for cyclists.
  • San Diego has settled a lawsuit with the daughter of a cyclist who was killed by a city water truck over 3 years ago.
  • The city council reaffirmed support for Barrio Logan’s recent community plan, but opponents are threatening to mount a voter referendum.

San Diego Region

  • SANDAG is paying the overtime costs of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to ticket mountain bikers in off limits areas of the Del Mar Mesa Preserve.
  • Temecula is looking for public input on plans to improve its bike lanes and trails.

Elsewhere

  • One year after a protected bike lane was installed on a Portland street, bike commuting in the area has increased by 25%.
  • The first phase of the Kinnickinnic River Trail has opened in Milwaukee.
  • In Chicago cyclists can now ride on a continuous bike path from Arlington Heights to Glencoe.
  • The Algiers bike and pedestrian path along the Mississippi River will open today in New Orleans.
  • Nearly all mayoral candidates in Minneapolis have come out in support of cycle tracks.
  • A bicyclist tries to make sense of the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for riding safely with a child.
  • The Wall Street Journal wonders what will happen to bike infrastructure in New York City after Mayor Bloomberg’s term of office comes to an end.
  • Amtrak has tested out allowing bikes on trains from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C.
  • A Nebraska student at Oxford University calls for investment in a high speed rail system in the United States.
  • Cyclists in Reading took to the streets to protest a proposed bridge that does not have a segregated bike lane.
  • Clover Moore, the lord mayor of Sydney, commented on the growing number of cyclists in his city and the need for safe bicycle infrastructure.
  • An analysis of how and why Australia has so little protected bike infrastructure.