New Bike Lanes on B Street
Posted By Sam Ollinger on September 29, 2011
Yesterday a reader left a comment here that there were new bike lanes on B Street in the Golden Hill neighborhood. I rode over today and sure enough, there were some brand new bike lanes.
New B Street Bike Lanes that run from 25th to 30th Street
Today was Golden Hill’s trash pickup day as evidenced by the trash can placed in the bike lane. There were trash cans places all along B Street in the middle of the new bike lane creating a new obstacle course that made riding dangerous. If you’d like to make a complaint with the City’s Waste Management Department, please feel free to email them at trash@sandiego.gov. I’ve already filed a complaint and will post any feedback I receive from the city.
The new bike lane appears to have been painted on sometime yesterday and it is approximately five blocks long, extending from 25th to 30th Street.
New B Street Bike Lane marked in green
This new bike lane is part of the larger 25th Street Renaissance Street Enhancement. This is part of an overall plan to improve the walkability of the 25th Street corridor and includes redesigning the street to improve pedestrian and bicycling access. According to the plan:
The Master Plan design will include improvements to the walkability of the 25th Street corridor. The related design elements will address the distinct character of this community focusing on enhancements to street circulation, sidewalks, intersection crossings, bike facilities, landscape enhancements, street trees, lighting, and other amentias within the City right-of-way.
Have you had a chance to ride on this (short) bike lane? What do you think?
UPDATE: The City’s Waste Management Department responded to my complaint mentioned above, “Thank you for reporting this matter to Environmental Services Department. We have forwarded your message to Mr. Menzore Brassfield who is the district supervisor.”
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Sam – Thanks for following up and filling in some details!
Nice to see more improvments in the hood. But still no BL’s on ride to work on Ruffin today.
Everett: I contacted Jim Lundquist and asked him when the bike lanes would be installed and he responded, “very soon. We had some bugs to work thru.”
perfect. right in the door zone!
Shane: According to CVC 22517 which states in part, ” No person shall open the door of a vehicle on the side available to moving traffic unless it is reasonably safe to do so and can be done without interfering with the movement of such traffic”. Thus the placement of the bike lane is not the sole source of danger to cyclists, drivers also need to take precautions to make sure that they do not harm other travelers.