News from the National Bike Summit

Google Announces ‘Bike There’ Directions – Yesterday at the ongoing National Bike Summit, Google announced that biking directions would be added to their maps. This is exciting news and I did some test runs and was pleased that the elevation was taken into consideration when routing around San Diego’s various canyons.

Call your Congressperson and ask to co-sponsor ACT – Kathy Keehan (SDCBC) is currently in Washington D.C. and will be meeting with Congressmembers Issa, Billbray, Hunter, Davis and Filner tomorrow morning (March 11) to ask them to co-sponsor the Active Community Transportation Act. The bill creates a competitive grant program where communities around the country will compete for $2 billion in funding to help make their communities better for walking and biking by creating more infrastructure for both pedestrians and bicyclists. To find your congressperson’s contact information, use this link. Keehan asks that you call your congressperson between 6 AM and 2 PM San Diego time tomorrow.