News, Links, and Other Views

January 5, 2015
|In News
|By BikeSD Staff

City of San Diego

  • DecoBike is scheduled roll out San Diego’s bike share beginning this month.
  • San Diego’s former Planning Director William Fulton discusses the future of urban growth in San Diego and how to avoid a dense crowded city where everyone is stuck on the freeway.

San Diego Region

  • SANDAG is offering $15 million in grants for local smart growth and active transportation projects within San Diego County.
  • There was a minor tiff in Encinitas about who represents the city on the SANDAG board.

Elsewhere

  • The Beverly Hills City Council is considering whether to build protected bike lanes on Santa Monica Boulevard.
  • A bike thief in Huntington Beach crashed into a cement trash container and knocked his teeth out.
  • A bicyclist is suing the the city of San Francisco after he was beaten by police officers for riding his bike on the sidewalk.
  • The Los Angeles based online bike rental service, Splinster, is making a push for more users in the Bay Area.
  • Google is planning to expand its Boulder, Colorado campus complete with bike and pedestrian infrastructure, but the city isn’t quite sure it wants them yet.
  • In Minneapolis bike traffic on the Plymouth Avenue Bridge rose by 81% after the construction of protected bike lanes.
  • Philadelphia is developing a bike share that is not just for tourists and hipsters, but that is accessible to everyone.
  • In 2014 New York City had the fewest number of pedestrians killed in traffic since 1910, though, as Janette Sadik-Khan points out, there is still a need for improved infrastructure and education.
  • Hawaiians are still getting used to their protected bike lane on King Street in Honolulu.
  • The Seattle Times asks whether 2015 will be the year that Seattle residents drive less?
  • In the United States young people are increasingly finding ways to to live their lives without cars.
  • Next City takes a look at cycling in the United States during 2014, including bike shares, helmet laws, safety issues, and how bikes impact transit and the economy.
  • In Instanbul, Turkey cyclists are working towards making their city safer for bicycling.
  • After a trip to Copenhagen a resident of Victoria, Canada finds that safe bicycle infrastructure can take the “us versus them” out of urban cycling.