News, Links, and Other Views

October 10, 2013
|In News
|By BikeSD Staff

City of San Diego

  • Because of safety concerns bicyclists have been banned from riding downhill at Torrey Pines State Reserve.
  • DecoBike, green bike lanes, and the 3 foot passing law received some coverage in the La Jolla Light.
  • Civic San Diego is looking for ways to fund transit oriented projects, including Cap-and-Trade funds, taxes, and visas for foreign investors.
  • UCSD political science professor Scott Desposato was profiled in an LA Times story about the most recent CicLAvia event.
  • San Diego bicycle shop Cycle Quest is helping the cross-country cyclist whose bike was recently stolen outside Dick’s Sporting Goods.
  • As San Diego continues to build more highway lanes, creating more stormwater runoff, the city council’s Natural Resources and Culture Committee is looking for ways to recapture runoff instead of dumping it into the ocean.

San Diego Region

  • As part of International Walk to School day SANDAG is sponsoring a “Walk, Ride and Roll to School Challenge” this week.
  • A staging area (parking lot, portable restroom, and bike rack) with access to the Bayshore Bikeway and Otay Valley Regional Park Trail will open on Oct. 12th in Chula Vista.
  • 39 schools in San Diego County are located in areas of harmful air pollution caused by traffic.

Elsewhere

  • At UC Santa Barbara bicycles are considered a key component in all capital projects.
  • Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed a bill that would have allowed solo drivers to use carpool lanes in Southern California.
  • Cyclists in San Francisco had the opportunity to voice their experiences with the SFPD.
  • Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that exempts bicycle transportation plans from CEQA.
  • A call for Chico to make bicycle safety a priority after two hit-and-run fatalities occurred on the same day.
  • An examination of whether it is possible to make Las Vegas into a walkable city.
  • Slowly, but surely, cities across the United States are understanding the benefits of safe bike infrastructure.
  • Washington DC received more kudos for the progress it has made becoming bike friendly.
  • Bright green bike lanes are being installed in Phoenix.
  • 85% of a bike path connecting Cincinnati to Cleveland has been completed.
  • Georgia lawmakers let proposed anti-bike legislation die in committee, saying that they never meant to actually pass it.