News, Links, and Other Views

October 3, 2013
|In News
|By BikeSD Staff

City of San Diego

  • The Livable Streets Coalition is sponsoring a candidate speaker series starting on Monday with the San Diego mayoral candidates.
  • Nathan Fletcher took a bike ride with Ed Clancy and Bill Walton to get a first hand view of what it is like to bike in urban San Diego.
  • A statement from the Livable Streets Coalition about the next San Diego mayor.
  • A cyclist on a ride around the USA had his bike stolen outside a San Diego Dick’s Sporting Goods.

San Diego Region

  • SANDAG approved $200 million for bicycle infrastructure projects in the next 10 years.
  • A cyclist was hit by a car in San Marcos on Tuesday evening.
  • An opinion piece in the UT about cycling and driving in San Diego and California’s new 3-foot passing law.
  • Poway has decided to build a multi-use path instead of adding another traffic lane to Espola Road.

Elsewhere

  • San Francisco is re-purposing a traffic lane and adding a buffered bike lane as part of a pilot project on Folsom Street.
  • Cyclists in Bakersfield are excited about their new bike lanes on Alta Vista Drive.
  • Sonoma County received a $190,575 “Community-Based Transportation Planning Grant” from Caltrans to fund the study of a bike path from Sonoma to Santa Rosa.
  • CEQA reform legislation was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
  • San Francisco has installed green waves (traffic lights set for 15 mph) on some streets.
  • A cost-benefit analysis of investment in bicycling in Portland shows a return of between 3.8 – 1.2 to 1.
  • A Transportations Alternatives poll finds that a large majority of New Yorkers support protected bicycle lanes and pedestrian islands in their neighborhoods.
  • The Wall Street Journal takes a bike ride in Manhattan with Janette Sadik-Khan.
  • Lincoln Nebraska received a $10,000 grant to help build a protected bike lane along N Street.
  • A Florida cyclist is not very impressed by bike lane improvements on the Julia Tuttle Causeway.
  • In Elkhart County Indiana (Amish country) the county council president calls for bikes and bike paths to be part of the planning process for road construction and upgrades.
  • In Chapel Hill a student responds to an anti-bike corral editorial in the Daily Tar Heel.
  • A crowd sourced fundraiser for a bike corral in New Haven failed to raise enough money, but the city decided to step in and install the corral.
  • John Sears and his three mules are putting sharing the road to the test in California.