A Plea to Keep Bike Lanes in Birdland/Grantville

At SDNN today, Brian Peterson, president of the Grantville Action Group, makes a plea to retain one of Birdland/Grantville’s few bicycle lanes, pointing out that a proposed plan to remove the lane flies in the face of the city’s alleged determination to support bicycle infrastructure.

[I]t is important to make bicycling easier, not harder. Yet, even though the city of San Diego’s General Plan speaks of encouraging the bicycle as a viable form of transportation, they are seemingly not doing anything of substance to make it any easier.

The photo above shows the stretch of eastbound Genesee Avenue that passes under the 163, site of the proposed bike lane removal. As is plain from the photo, even the current bike lane seems barely adequate, but it’s one of the few bits of bicycle infrastructure in this auto-centric neighborhood. Is this what it’s come to? Scrambling to retain the sub-par infrastructure we already have, instead of promoting new and better development?

Read the entire column at SDNN.