Sam Ollinger | November 30, 2011
Mia Birk, the former Bicycle Program Manager for the city of Portland, will be coming to San Diego in two weeks to help the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition (SDCBC) celebrate 2011 and share her stories of success and the challenges she faced. For more details on how you can meet Birk and partake in [...]
Sam Ollinger | November 30, 2011
A reader wrote in about a collision that happened yesterday morning at Catalina and Wilcox in Point Loma. A 10 year old cyclist was hit at Catalina and Wilcox. According to our reader, the cyclist was hit when the van turned left across traffic hitting cyclist coming in opposite direction. Cyclist was hurt but was [...]
Sam Ollinger | November 29, 2011
In the mid to late 1970s, voter discontent in California was very high. There were numerous reasons for this discontent, but it was a discontent that was eventually echoed at the national scale as I’ll briefly discuss later. On a worldwide scale, the 1970s resulted in policies that citizens all around the world today are [...]
Sam Ollinger | November 28, 2011
The SANDAG 2050 RTP may have received the approval of the SANDAG Board, but it is still garnering much criticism here in San Diego. The Union Tribune’s Editorial Board published a raving review of the SANDAG RTP, blindly echoing the words of SANDAG Board Chair, Jerome Stocks, that the plan was “balanced” but the newspaper’s [...]
Sam Ollinger | November 21, 2011
As of November 1st, Thomas Landre has been San Diego’s new Bicycle Coordinator. I first learned about Landre’s new position while celebrating the Eastern Planning Group’s vote last month to make University Avenue east of 54th Street more bicycle friendly. After the meeting, Landre who was the City’s contact person for the Mobility Study, Randolph [...]
Sam Ollinger | November 21, 2011
Here in San Diego, the Pacific Beach Planning Group Board is now welcoming candidates willing to serve for at least two years. If you live in Pacific Beach and would like to play an influential role in land use and built environment issues, do consider joining the Board. Further north in San Diego County, the [...]
Sam Ollinger | November 16, 2011
This Saturday, Bike the Boulevard will be celebrating its first anniversary. The bike ride traverses El Cajon Boulevard, a street that (to date) continues to be a major east-west thoroughfare primarily for automobiles. However, this Saturday the street will once again be home to throngs of cyclists riding to have fun and partake in all [...]
Sam Ollinger | November 15, 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. —- Cyclocross is the earliest form of off-road bicycle racing, predating the “invention” of the mountain bike by decades. I recently had the pleasure of riding to [...]
Sam Ollinger | November 9, 2011
The 2011 California Bike Summit was held last weekend in downtown Los Angeles. This year’s Summit was envisioned and implemented primarily due to the efforts of Alexis Lantz, Planning and Policy Director with the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and Board member with the California Bicycle Coalition (CBC). As part of the CBC’s Re-Launch Campaign, [...]
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