The dangers of riding on Jamacha Boulevard
Posted By Sam Ollinger on September 2, 2009
San Diego bicyclist William Karstens having gotten fed up with San Diego County stalling in making any progress in removing the k-rails on Jamacha Blvd took his grievances to the media. The k-rails that were placed on Jamacha Boulevard were placed by developer Pointe International. Pointe International purchased a large tract of land that was originally owned by Fred Hansen’s estate with the intention of continuing Hansen’s vision of creating a resort community. Much of the land surrounding the Streetwater Reservoir was originally purchased by Pointe in 1982.
Meanwhile as the various county officials, developers and contractors debate on various issues relating to the resort community, bicyclists riding along Jamacha Boulevard have to ride in dangerous 50 mph conditions. In the video below, Karstens shows the NBC reporter exactly how dangerous the conditions are for riding.
While the various concerns raised by the county and developers may well be legitimate issues, we here at Bike San Diego wonder why a temporary slower speed limit is not being implemented as a much more safer and cost effective solution. Would the $300,000 still be an issue if the k-rails were blocking access to automobiles?
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You go, William! How silly. But how great that 39 covered it. We need to do more press releases in the cycling community for safety issues.
We’re working on it!
Thanks. There are more people than I working the issue. Thomas Reynolds has been fighting this MUCH longer and harder.. and the SDCBC has been pushing for it as well. I was just right place, right time to talk to the news. The reporter did very well trying to create a balanced look at it. 300K.. I can’t begin to say how wrong that sounds.
You did an excellent job and were very well spoken. If this was hampering cars, it would be done in a matter of weeks at most. Seems to me as though the developer should pay the costs. Ran out of money? Sell their property and pay the costs. I like it when the guy said that it would not make sense to take them away, only to put them back in 6 months at a cost of 300k. Why didn’t they remove them over 6 years ago? One more thing, how does it cost 300k to move road barriers? Think this may be one of the reasons our state is broke?
To quote Mugatu, “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills”.