News, Links, and Other Views

May 16, 2013
|In News
|By BikeSD Staff

City of San Diego

  • Another car crashed onto the Route 56 bike path last Friday, Turko is on the case, but Caltrans has declined to comment.
  • The San Diego County Grand Jury has issued a report calling for the City of San Diego to build safe bicycle infrastructure and for bicyclists to follow traffic laws.
  • Changes are on the horizon as Mayor Filner seeks to separate the planning department from the development services department.
  • San Diego Free Press writer John P Anderson’s bikes and bike trailer were stolen Monday morning.
  • Bike Local Sundays gets coverage on CBS 8 news.

San Diego Region

  • Del Mar is searching for new ways to revitalize its downtown after the defeat of Proposition J – a plan to construct roundabouts, bike lanes, and widen sidewalks on Camino Del Mar.
  • Tomorrow is Bike to Work Day and Tijuaneando en Bici.
  • The Sprinter is scheduled to begin service again on Saturday.
  • Good times were had at the Tour of California in Escondido.
  • A memorial ride was held in Carlsbad for Eric Ringdahl.

Elsewhere

  • Los Angeles was ranked “just barely bikable” by walkscore.com –  about 21 places higher than San Diego.
  • The Seattle Times calls for cycle tracks on high-traffic routes and provides an interactive map showing 5 years of bike and pedestrian collisions.
  • In response to public demand Seattle’s Mayor, Mike McGinn, has proposed $3.25 million for bike infrastructure projects.
  • A recent study commissioned by the German Environmental Agency finds that a 10% increase in walking and cycling would raise German GDP by 1.11% and employment by 1.37%.
  • Bike counter data from Market Street in San Francisco is available here.
  • Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed doubling the fine for dooring a cyclist to $1,000 as well as increasing fines for cyclist who don’t follow the rules of the road.
  • After years of controversy a bike path through the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is finally open.
  • 10,000 people have already signed up for New York City’s bike share.
  • A profile of Jennifer Klausner executive director of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition.
  • As San Francisco, Chicago, and New York install cycle tracks they encounter resistance to change.
  • San Francisco is moving towards allowing bikes on BART full time.
  • A “non-biker” reflects on what she learned by attending the National Bike Summit.