News, Links, and Other Views

City of San Diego

• Students at San Diego State University look forward to using the city’s future bike share.
• CicloSDias gets more news coverage in the LGBT Weekly.
• The future of the Plaza de Panama is still being determined, but the city has purchased trams that should be in operation soon.
• Not everyone is happy about Caltrans’ $600 million plan to widen 3 miles of State Route 94 between downtown and the 805.

San Diego Region

• The CEO of Connect, Duane Roth, was seriously injured in a bicycle accident near Lake Cuyamaca.
• The Bayshore Bikeway tops the list of the 19 best city bike paths in America as chosen by the Active Times.
• The 805 will be shut down for 14 hours next month to allow for the construction of direct access ramps which will serve additional express lanes built to provide “an alternative mass-transit option.”
• Oceanside residents are concerned about the $3.5 billion plan to widen I-5 in order to build more express lanes.
• Carlsbad has hired consultant Peter Norby to help with bicycle and pedestrian projects in the city.
• 270 San Diego area motorists, passengers, bicyclists, and pedestrians died in road accidents in 2012.

Elsewhere

• A columnist in Rochester reflects on the image of cycling as a dangerous activity and the need for infrastructure to make it safer.
• Cyclists in Amsterdam respond to a New York Times article about the tremendous problems they are having caused by too many bikes.
• In Los Angeles an incident between a cyclist and a CHP officer caught on video illustrates the confusion about sharrows.
• Plans are in the works to build a bike path along all 51 miles of the LA river by 2020.
• Cycling advocates succeed in getting bike lanes in the Brownsville neighborhood of New York.