Sam Ollinger | October 20, 2009
Kate, our reader in Encinitas attended the most recent North Coast Highway 101 Streetscape Project and sent us this update:
This presentation was a really tight, succinct presentation that gave great detail along the entire 2 mile stretch between La Costa and Encinitas Boulevard. The presentation compared the new Alternate 5 with the Alternate 4A (newly [...]
Thomas Bahde | October 16, 2009
Our weekly roundup of the best of the week’s local bike blogging:
Bic Control gave more thought to distracted drivers than most distracted drivers devote to their driving. Dang.
Bike 21 spotted the not-too-elusive bike salmon.
Vélo-flâneur pondered the weighty question of just why we consider it “good news” for there to be only 16,000+ traffic fatalities in [...]
Thomas Bahde | October 15, 2009
We are posting this story in order to disseminate the information to as large an audience as possible. San Diego News Network is reporting a hit-and-run of a bicyclist in El Cajon late last night:
A hit-and-run driver who struck and critically injured a 47-year-old man on a bicycle was at large Thursday, a police lieutenant said.
The [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 15, 2009
Since we last wrote about the k-rails blocking the bike lane on Jamacha Boulevard, San Diego County has sued the builder, Pointe Communities of San Diego, responsible for placing the krails in the bike lane. The complaint was filed on September 22, 2009 and the case has been assigned to Judicial Officer Laura Whitcomb Halgren.
While [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 14, 2009
In a military town like San Diego, it is always helpful when the branches pitch in to help with promoting bicycling. San Diego’s Navy newspaper, the Navy Compass, is reporting that the Navy has requested an easement from the city which will allow the final section of the Coronado Bikeway to be completed. From the [...]
Thomas Bahde | October 13, 2009
Hot on the heels of the launch of Ride the City San Diego, Google Maps has announced that “soon we even plan on providing you with biking directions.” It’s going to be very interesting to compare and contrast the two different bike mapping services. We take it as an indication that bicycling in gaining some [...]
Thomas Bahde | October 13, 2009
As part of our ongoing project to profile bicycle businesses in San Diego, this week we have an interview with Kenton of Aloha Bicycle Courier, San Diego’s only dedicated bicycle courier service*.
BikeSD: According to your website, you’ve been around since 2000. What made you want to start a bicycle courier business in San Diego?
Aloha: I [...]
Thomas Bahde | October 13, 2009
A pre-publication draft of a forthcoming article in the journal Preventative Medicine (February 2010) has become available in PDF format, and can be read here. The article is by John Pucher (Rutgers), Jennifer Dill (Portland State), and Susan Handy (UC-Davis), and features fourteen case studies of cities around the world to determine the most effective [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 12, 2009
Ride the City(RTC) has officially launched in San Diego. Unlike Google maps’ “walking” option in figuring out a bike route that avoids the freeways, RTC uses elevation data to provide routing suggestions so that bicyclists in San Diego can decide on a less hilly route to ride on. From the press release:
This is our largest [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 11, 2009
Below are some bills that will affect bicyclists in California.
Seatless Bicycles (SB 527): This bill would allow bicycles designed to operate without a seat to be legally ridden on streets. The bill is currently awaiting Governor Schwarzenegger’s signature. The full text and status of the bill is available at Senator Kehoe’s website.
Complete Streets in California [...]
