Sam Ollinger | March 30, 2010
This is a news item from up north, but note worthy to readers here as well.
Bike Boxes are listed on the agenda [pdf] for the meeting of the California Bicycle Advisory Committee to be held on April 8, 2010 up in Sacramento. The agenda item surrounding bike boxes relates to Caltrans request to experiment with [...]
Thomas Bahde | March 19, 2010
So we’re a little bit late in getting this posted, but maybe a few of you haven’t heard about it yet. The Bikes Belong Coalition has launched a new initiative called People for Bikes, with the goal of getting 1 million people to take the following pledge:
I am for bikes. I’m for long rides and [...]
Sam Ollinger | March 18, 2010
Dr. Nathan Daley from the UCSD Preventative Medicine is conducting a brief anonymous survey of San Diego cyclists in collaboration with UCSD, San Diego Health and Human Services, and related municipal and private institutions in order to better facilitate utility cycling here in San Diego.
The information collected will help direct efforts aimed at [...]
Thomas Bahde | March 11, 2010
In bicycle advocacy circles, we hear a lot about what a bike-friendly San Diego would look like, and of course, we should always look to the future, but we also want to see your photos of what already works in San Diego. Is there a particularly sweet bike lane on your commute? Or an off-street [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
