News, Links, and Other Views

January 17, 2013
|In News
|By BikeSD Staff

City of San Diego

  • The dangerous road design of the 805 interchanges at Balboa Avenue and Clairemont Mesa Boulevard received more coverage.
  • The San Diego County Bicycle Coalition is providing free bike valet service for the upcoming golf tournament at Torrey Pines.

San Diego Region

  • After being previously nixed by Caltrans, the City of Coronado is once again considering installing bike corrals, maybe the third time will be the charm.
  • Santee City Councilmember Jack Dale is now the chairman of SANDAG.
  • The Equinox Center has released a report finding that San Diego traffic congestion is increasing and that people in San Diego drive more miles per day than people in Los Angeles because of the relatively high mass transit use in LA (maybe wider freeways aren’t the solution to San Diego’s transit problems).
  • SANDAG has released its draft Public Involvement Plan (or PIP) for public review and comment.

Elsewhere

  • Mexico City received a Sustainable Transport Award for it’s work reorienting its transportation away from cars and towards mass transit, bikes and pedestrians; though not everyone feels they have gone far enough.
  • In Denver and Portland bike infrastructure is making its way from the street into housing.
  • If you would like to make your business more bike friendly, here’s a useful guide.
  • In Britain there is a government program that helps people purchase bikes with pre-tax payroll deductions; here is an example of the results.
  • If you thought it was too cold to bike in San Diego the last couple of weeks, consider this article from Illinois.
  • Austin has built some new cycle tracks.
  • Santa Monica has a new bright green bike path.
  • USA Today posted a nice article on the economic and social benefits of protected bike lanes.