News, Links, and Other Views
City of San Diego
- E-bike advocate Turbo Bob Bandhauer was interviewed by the Union Tribune.
- San Diego is tied with Pittsburgh for the 10th worst air quality in the United States.
- While reviewing the Draft Ocean Beach Community Plan Update the OB Rag calls for bike infrastructure that is more than just paint on the road.
- The La Jolla Light provides some additional details about the Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project
- Cycling icon and advocate Gordy Shields died at the age of 95.
- VOSD checked in on the Livable Streets Coalition.
- San Diego developers plan for a creative tech center downtown – maybe a bikable city would help?
San Diego Region
- A “transit-inspired” development broke ground near the Sprinter station in San Marcos.
- In San Marcos police are back riding bikes while on patrol.
- As freeways and highways keep getting wider creating more stormwater runoff, funding for water quality monitoring at San Diego’s beaches may soon be cut.
- Friday is the 3 year anniversary of Tijuana Paseo de Todos.
- Have a fun safe 4th of July, avoid parking hassles and traffic jams by riding your bike.
Elsewhere
- The bright green paint on the Spring Street bike path in Los Angeles that annoyed filmmakers is going to be re-done.
- A profile of Texas Instruments as a bike commuter friendly company.
- Bicycle advocates in Denver built their own protected bike lane for Bike to Work Day.
- Martha Roskowski of the Bikes Belong Green Lane Project visited Santa Barbara.
- San Francisco’s Embarcadero bike lanes got some green paint.
- At a “hefty cost” Seattle has opened more cycle tracks.
- More than half of Metro Vancouver residents support protected bike lanes.
- A very wide bike lane can be found in Bellevue Nebraska.
- Cyclists in Tuscon suspect angry drivers are sabotaging their bike path with thumb tacks.
- Denver has nearly finished building a bike path along the light rail line from Denver to Golden.
- A “costly” bike path connecting the downtown Burbank Metrolink station with the Lake-Alameda bike path is scheduled to be completed in 2016.
- Chicago’s bike share program brings up questions about how to allocate resources equally.
- Cyclists in Toronto asked the police to start tracking dooring incidents. In response Toronto Traffic Services told them: “If you said how many days a week is it sunny, we’re not going to track that.”
- The editor of the New York Daily News was injured after being doored.
- Chicago cyclists are also tired of being doored and would like more protected bike lanes.
- New York’s widely popular bike share program has prompted discussions about helmets and how bike lanes have become the new normal.
- To celebrate Independence Day, the Great American Kid’s Bike Parade happens in Long Beach.