Sam Ollinger | August 29, 2011
The California Bicycle Coalition is urging all Californians to contact their Assembly member to ensure that their Assembly member’s vote on Senate Bill 910, the three-foot passing bill, is a “yes”. More information and details are available at this link. The AAA is one of the organizations fighting to keep this bill from passing. Please [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 23, 2011
Editor’s Note: The following article was written by Robert Leone of the Knickerbikers, San Diego’s Bicycle Touring Club and board member at the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition. — San Diego is blessed with the weather and infrastructure for a rich, vibrant, and diverse amateur athletics scene. For the cyclist or cycling fan, a jewel [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 22, 2011
As promised, Assistant Chief of Police, Patrol Operations, Boyd Long, sent me the memorandum he sent out to the San Diego Police Department’s Patrol and Traffic Officers today. This memorandum will be placed in the officers’ line up books. Although our discussion last Friday revolved around CVC 21202 and its exceptions, the memorandum also includes [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 20, 2011
Within the next two weeks, all patrol officers in the City of San Diego will receive training on the full text of CVC 21202, the bicycle law that applies to cyclists in California. This section of the vehicle code is the one that addresses where cyclists can be positioned when riding on the street and [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 16, 2011
Ruffin Road between Kearny Villa Road and Murphy Canyon Road will finally be upgraded from a Class III bike route to a Class II bike lane. According to the City’s Engineering Department, construction is scheduled to begin this month. This upgrade will install 3.25 miles of a Class II bike lane on Ruffin Road. The [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 15, 2011
Last Thursday, the City Heights Community Development Corporation(CHCDC), the first community-oriented nonprofit in City Heights, hosted a Community Workshop for the residents who reside in the Colina Park neighborhood. Colina Park is the neighborhood bordered between Euclid Avenue and 54th Street (east to west) and El Cajon Boulevard to University (north to south) Randolph Van [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 15, 2011
Great Streets San Diego launches. GSSD is an education and advocacy group for livable streets and great urban placemaking in San Diego. Walter Chambers, founder of GSSD and self-identified “slow bicyclist” states that “Great Streets San Diego is about putting People first in design. Successful urban spaces attract people, and if the goal is to [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 15, 2011
The first (well attended) Courteous Mass was held last Friday and was by all accounts an incredibly successful ride. One participant took a short video of the initial group that gathered early: The route began in Balboa Park and went uptown to the neighborhoods of Hillcrest (where the city is considering installing the [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 12, 2011
We’ve implemented a new calendar here on Bike San Diego. The calendar will list rides, workshops and other events that will be of interest to San Diegan cyclists. Upcoming events will show up automatically on our main webpage. You can also view a full calendar by clicking on the “calendar” link. If you have an [...]
Sam Ollinger | August 12, 2011
Penelope Robles, organizer for the Courteous Mass/Critical Manners ride. Photo by Arturo Viazcán Although tonight’s Critical Manners/Courteous Manners ride may seem like the first attempt to create an alternative to the seemingly unstoppable Critical Mass ride, the idea of a Critical Manners ride is as old as San Diego’s Critical Mass ride. Various attempts to [...]
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