News, Links, and Other Views

February 28, 2013
|In News
|By BikeSD Staff

City of San Diego

  • The College Area Community Council has proposed physically separated bike lanes on both sides of Montezuma Road as part of their “Montezuma Trail” concept.
  • As you have no doubt already heard, at the unveiling of a rainbow colored bike corral in Hillcrest, Mayor Filner announced that the city will hold a ciclovia style event this August called CicloSDias.  Official site here.
  • City councilman Todd Gloria writes about North Park including the Mid-City Regional Bike Corridor.
  • San Diego gets a mention in an article about hotels providing bicycles to guests.
  • The La Jolla Community Planning Association is asking for input on placement of sharrows, bike corrals, and other bike infrastructure improvements.

San Diego Region

  • The California Coastal Commission will take up the question of bike lanes and sharrows on Coast Highway in Encinitas in either June, July, or October.
  • Mayor Filner created a stir at a SANDAG meeting with questions about plans to spend $40 million on public relations.
  • Mountain biking is gaining popularity as a competitive high school sport.

Elsewhere

  • In Virginia dooring a cyclist remains legal.
  • The author of a Canadian study on safe bike lanes points out that separated bike lanes are a public health issue.
  • LA city council candidates express little regard for the city’s bike lane plans in their district.
  • In Long Beach the Surfrider Foundation has reservations about a bike path on the beach.
  • Washington state has proposed a law requiring anyone buying a bike that costs more than $500 to pay a $25 dollar fee.
  • In Crown Heights a bike corral has become the focal point for a neighborhood dealing with gentrification.
  • A plan to add bike lanes and remove street parking on Polk Street in San Francisco has merchants and residents concerned.
  • One person was arrested trying to save a sequoia tree that was cut down to make way for a bike path in Portland.
  • After a grand jury failed to indict a truck driver who ran over and killed a cyclist in Massachusetts, the Boston Globe wonders whether anti-cycling bias is to blame.
  • The South Bend, Indiana Common Council is considering passing a law that would require motorists to keep 3 feet of distance when passing bicyclists.
  • Despite a large outpouring of support, London failed to pass a proposed amendment that would have increased spending on cycling infrastructure.
  • In New Zealand a writer questions the effectiveness of mandatory hi-viz gear versus more education and increased numbers of cyclists on the road.  Also in New Zealand, a joke gone wrong.