San Diego: The World’s Best Bike Friendly City. What does that look like to you?

This year, San Diego was not even listed in Bicycling Magazine’s list of top 50 bike friendly cities.

However, I believe that San Diego has the ability to become the world’s best bike friendly city. However in order to be the best it is going to take a lot of hard work to get there.

When San Diego becomes the world’s best bike friendly city, what will that look like? How will it feel to live in such a city? We are conducting a survey to collect your thoughts, your ideas and your suggestions on what that world looks like.

The world’s best bike friendly city won’t be just nice for everyone on a bicycle, but it will make for a quieter, less polluted, less congested, and healthier city. And obviously a more fun city. Because riding a bicycle is really fun.

Although our primary focus here at BikeSD.org is on transportation, all other forms of riding do enhance our quality of life. We have some outstanding mountain biking trails in the region. Cyclocross is quickly becoming an enormously popular activity in Southern California despite our general lack of rain. We have some truly outstanding athletes who regularly train on our roads and use our varied topography to their advantage. We have a growing number of residents who ride out of principle, financial reasons or the sheer joy of getting around on their own power.

So please fill out this survey and unleash your honest thoughts and ideas. Let your mind go wild with possibilities of what you wish San Diego could be. Imagine a world where drivers do respect you and your right of way – what would you want next? Imagine a world where you weren’t derided or mocked for riding – what would inspire you then? How would San Diego look? Would we become a major tourist destination? Detail your ideas.

We’ve had over 130 responses so far and we want to hear from more of you. Dream big and then jot those ideas down.