News, Links, and Other Views
City of San Diego
- San Diego has a new planning director, Bill Fulton. Here’s a short conversation he had with the Voice of San Diego.
- The parking lot in Balboa Park’s Plaza de Panama has been shut down and will be turned into a pedestrian space.
- The Golden Hill CDC hosted a public meeting to discuss SANDAG’s plans to add lanes to State Route 94.
- Construction on the Mid-City Rapid Bus Line is scheduled to begin this month.
- Why are taxis so expensive in San Diego and why do new cab companies seem to pop up every day? The shadow market for taxi permits might be the reason.
- San Diego will start studying how to fix its sidewalks.
- 70 businesses throughout San Diego offer discounts to bicyclists.
San Diego Region
- An audit of the North County Transit District found that the NCTD is not effectively monitoring compliance with state and federal regulations and is buried in paperwork.
- If you’ve had a bike stolen in the Santee or Lakeside area, the San Diego County Sherriff might have your bike.
- A motorist in Fresno was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing one person and injuring two others, meanwhile a Del Sur woman was sentenced to 2 days.
- Here are a couple reports from recent public meetings discussing the Coastal Rail Trail and the Mid-Coast Trolley Line.
Elsewhere
- Check out the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, a next generation protected bike lane and “one of the biggest bicycling infrastructure achievements in North America.”
- At a public meeting the Los Angeles DOT responded to residents’ concerns about bike lanes in San Pedro: be patient, get used to it.
- The Velo-city 2013 conference is going on in Vienna, here are some summaries of the days’ events.
- K Street in Washington DC is being redone – but bicyclists ask, what happened to the bike lanes?
- New York City’s bike share program has experienced some software-related problems.
- Even hands-free voice-activated devices are dangerously distracting for motorists.
- For good example of what can be achieved with bicycle infrastructure in a US style city consider Rotterdam.