Sam Ollinger | October 27, 2011
San Diego’s streets are getting even more new sharrows. Sharrows have been spotted on Broadway starting at 26th Street. A reader, Matt, wrote in this morning that he spotted sharrows on A Street starting at Kettner Boulevard. Have you spotted any new sharrows? Where have you seen them? Previous coverage of sharrows: Sharrows in the [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 25, 2011
From around San Diego: The 22 mile multi-use trail path between Escondido and Oceanside is finally moving along toward completion. The larger Cabrillo ferry used to link Coronado to San Diego is current being serviced and has been replaced by the smaller ferry with no bike racks. However, bikes are still welcome on the ferry [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 24, 2011
Last Monday, local advocates and activists in San Diego held a press conference rejecting SANDAG’s 2050 Regional Transportation Plan. The press conference was held at the El Cajon Transit Plaza that was built over I-15. This is the transit plaza that sits mostly empty on most days. It was built as part of an (now [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 18, 2011
As part of the SDPD’s promise to continue a dialogue with the City’s cyclists, Lt. O’Hanlon of Traffic Patrol looked into whether patrol officers were targeting San Diegan cyclists exclusively or unfairly. Lt. O’Hanlon reported that in the eight months beginning in January 2011, only 52 citations had been given to cyclists for a variety [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 18, 2011
From the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: San Diego County Bicycle Coalition 858.487.6063 SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Bicycle Coalition will receive a $1,000 donation from a national award won by Supervisor Greg Cox. The Supervisor won the 2011 Doppelt Family Rail-Trail Champions Award for his success developing hiking and [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 17, 2011
Earlier this morning various organizations with a sustainable, environmental and active transportation focus held a press conference rejecting SANDAG’s Regional Transportation Plan as it exists. Various leaders and residents voiced their perspective on what they expected from SANDAG. I will post a report on that later today. I had the opportunity to speak with a San [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 14, 2011
I received an email an hour ago from a reader about an accident last night. Our reader, Amy, said that a cyclist was down at 32nd and Redwood and that the police had blocked the entire corner. I don’t have any more information. If you do, please leave a comment or send an email to [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 13, 2011
What the Cycling Movement Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street – Quoting Jonathan Maus from BikePortland.org, “Let’s, for the sake of discussion, compare the “top 1 percent” with the last century of auto-dominated urban planning and its ongoing primacy due to the politics around transportation funding.” GM publishes an ill-timed and thoughtless ad, purportedly with [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 8, 2011
Editor’s Note: The article below is published with permission from the California Bicycle Coalition. Yesterday afternoon, Governor Brown vetoed SB 910, the state’s three feet passing bill. —- This afternoon Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed Senate Bill 910, our bill to establish three feet as the minimum passing distance when drivers pass bicyclists from behind under [...]
Sam Ollinger | October 6, 2011
Two years ago a Voice of San Diego reporter, Keegan Kyle, revealed both his disdain for cyclists and his bias as a reporter when he made some not so subtle digs at critical mass and, thus, at cyclists. Now with all eyes on San Diego as SANDAG scrambles to revamp their 2050 Regional Transportation Plan, [...]
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