News, Links, and Other Views

City of San Diego

• Mayor Faulconer’s new budget may be the end of San Diego’s Civic Innovation Lab.
• A proposed ecodistrict in Pacific Beach will be discussed at a community workshop this month.
• A group of concerned La Jolla residents organized to help fund and preserve the Coast Walk Trail.
• Cape La Jolla Gardens condo owners and the Mormon Temple face off about where the San Diego Trolley should cross I-5.
• More details about San Diego’s Mid-City Rapid project and whether it is really “bus rapid transit” or just an “enhanced” bus line.
• Citi Bike’s financial problems  raise questions about the viability of privately funded bike share systems such as San Diego’s contract with Deco Bike.
• Mission Hills is looking into whether the neighborhood still needs parking meters.

San Diego Region

• SANDAG is looking to obtain funding for bike and pedestrian projects in San Diego County from Caltran’s $360 million Active Transportation Program.
• A stop sign on Shadowridge Drive in Vista has inflamed inconvenienced motorists.

Elsewhere

• The protected bike lane on Polk Street in San Francisco is moving closer to completion.
• Oakland is looking at redesigning Telegraph Avenue to make it safer for bicyclists and pedestrians.
• A look at the progress of New York’s protected bike lane on Lafayette Street.
• A demographic analysis of New York’s Citi Bike shows that the typical user is a male in his 30s.
• The hand-wringing has commenced in Cincinnati about the city’s plan to build a cycle track on Central Parkway.
• Atlanta cyclists look forward to proposed bike lane improvements and being part of the Green Lane Project.
• A business owner in Wyoming was comfortable with a proposed bike path until he found out it could be a threat to “his” on-street parking.
• After a 12 hour meeting and 37 presentations a Calgary city council committee approved a plan to build a cycle track network downtown.
• One writer in Calgary examines why the city’s proposed cycle track network is causing so much controversy despite being such a small part of the city’s transportation budget.
• An English family reports on their recent cycling vacation on the voies vertes in Normandy France.
• A McGill University study of bike theft finds that about half of all active cyclists have their bike’s stolen.
• The owner of a bike shop in Seattle was recently arrested for chopping and selling stolen bikes.
• Forbes magazine takes a look at the shift away from cars in cities across the United States and Canada.
• Tales of bike crashes, poor bicycle maintenance, failure to yield, and roundabouts at UC Davis.
• You Are Here has just released a map of all police bike accident data from 2012 in Los Angeles.
• Santiago de Chile has seen a 20% annual increase in bicycle commuting, but lack of infrastructure has left cyclists nowhere to ride but the sidewalks.