News, Links, and Other Views
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.