Bicycling and Walking Benchmarking Report Released

Thomas Bahde | March 9, 2010

Edit: Nothing wrong with a little redundancy, right? Although it seems I’m a little behind with this, I’ll still be posting tidbits for your perusal. Ah, the joys of multi-authored blogs!
The folks at the Alliance for Biking and Walking (formerly the Thunderhead Alliance) have just recently released their 2010 benchmarking report. We have our copy [...]

Reader’s letter to the City of Oceanside Regarding Damaged Bike Lanes

Sam Ollinger | March 2, 2010

Bike San Diego reader, Andrew Parish, wrote letting us know of his efforts to get the city of Oceanside to place signage alerting motorists to the presence of bicyclists who would be riding the lane on Oceanside Boulevard while the bike lanes get resurfaced. A copy of his letter (dated February 25, 2010) and the [...]

The other half of Manivela Bicycle Delivery: Trevor Fray

Sam Ollinger | February 8, 2010

Shortly after Bike San Diego was launched we did a profile of one of the co-founders of San Diego’s only bicycle delivery service. Since the profile was run when our site was still in its infancy, we thought we’d run an update on Manivela Food Delivery to introduce some of our newer readers to Manivela.
Trevor [...]

A Visitor’s Perspective On Bicycling in San Diego

Thomas Bahde | January 26, 2010

Boston’s Chic Cyclists blog posted a reflection on bicycling in San Diego today:
Cycling in downtown San Diego is a little like Boston except with no separate bike lane. It was cool for San Diego and intermittent rain. Hardly any bikers. Didn’t see any bike commuters. Rode around using roadway and sidewalk when available. Cars gave [...]

Make your voices heard on Jan 21st for long overdue improvements

Sam Ollinger | January 19, 2010

Jim Baross, spokesperson for the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition sent out this message to the San Diego bicycle community which we are reposting here.
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There are four bicycling issues to be heard at this special San Diego meeting of the California Traffic Control Devices Committee (CTCDC). This committee is the officially accepted body to provide [...]

Help us Build a Photo Archive of Bicycling in San Diego!

Thomas Bahde | January 19, 2010

We’re building a photo archive of bicycles, bicycling, and bicycle-related infrastructure in San Diego, and you can help!
Remember to pack a camera on your next bike ride or walkabout and take photos of everything bicycle-related. We’re looking for photos of people riding bikes, parked bikes, kids on bikes, bike lanes, road signs, bikes at local [...]

Celebrating the Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day

Sam Ollinger | January 12, 2010

Woodstock Pizza, is the employer of Matt Kelly who was critically injured when a semi collided into him and then dragged him 20 feet.
Woodstock Pizza is raising funds to assist Matt Kelly with his hospitalization bills. As such,
50% of the proceeds will go to Matt Kelly, a long-time loyal Woodstock’s employee who was hit by [...]

Traffic lights are becoming more sensitive

Sam Ollinger | January 8, 2010

Since my last update about insensitive traffic lights made sensitive, I received an email that another service request has been fulfilled.
I submitted a request on December 31, 2009 to the San Diego Streets Division to have the left turn light at Village Place turning to Park Boulevard made more sensitive to bicycles.
Today, January 8, 2010, [...]

Are your traffic lights insensitive?

Sam Ollinger | January 4, 2010

I recently decided to start tracking all the insensitive traffic lights in the city of San Diego. That is, I will be tracking the traffic lights that aren’t triggered by bicycles.
I submitted a request on December 31, 2009 to the San Diego Streets Division to have the left turn light at Hotel Circle South turning [...]

Help push for more access to Government Data – Vote for Ride the City

Sam Ollinger | December 28, 2009

Vaidila dropped us a note to let us know that Ride the City has entered a competition in New York City that will reward useful applications that have been developed using freely available city data. His email said in part:

We’re looking to get more of the public to vote for our application if they like/use [...]