News, Links, and Other Views

January 12, 2015
|In News
|By BikeSD Staff

City of San Diego

  • An 11 year-old boy was injured by a hit-and-run driver in the Midway District. The driver later claimed it was not actually a hit-and-run.
  • CBS 8 took a closer look at the upcoming DecoBike bike share system in San Diego.
  • Todd Gloria proposed reforming San Diego’s referendum laws in order to bring more transparency to the process.
  • The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority is looking for a restaurant to put on top of its new $316 million four-story car rental center.

San Diego Region

  • Runoff from the streets of San Diego County creates a never-ending supply of trash at the region’s beaches.
  • A local surfer died of a bacterial infection after surfing at Sunset Beach, prompting a discussion whether stormwater runoff makes it unsafe to surf in urban areas.
  • Del Mar has decided to postpone building a roundabout on Jimmy Durante Blvd due to public concern about the environmental impacts.
  • In the Voice of San Diego two local land-use lawyers discussed whether the purpose of CEQA is mitigation or disclosure of environmental impacts.

Elsewhere

  • Unexpected urban spaces are one of the things to expect in Los Angeles in 2015.
  • California Governor, Jerry Brown, said that fixing the state’s transportation infrastructure is one of his top priorities.
  • The Pacific Coast Business Times examines how California’s bullet train project could impact rail transport along the central coast.
  • In Baltimore the Episcopal Church has opened disciplinary hearings for a Bishop who killed a cyclist and left the scene.  The Bishop has also been charged with manslaughter, DUI, and texting while driving.  Here is one cyclist’s reaction.
  • Pittsburgh has budgeted $1.65 million to build more bicycle infrastructure, more than has been budgeted in the last five years combined.
  • In the Washington Post a cyclist explains why she doesn’t always follow every traffic law.
  • After two recent deaths another Washington Post author made the case for a separate network of biking roads.  However this was not well received by local cyclists.
  • A study of 18 metropolitan areas in Canada and the United States points out the need for integrating social-equity considerations into urban transportation planning.
  • In 2015 transportation funding will be one of the top legislative issues to watch in the United States.
  • In the United States mentions of “protected bike lanes” in the news has grown exponentially over the last few years.
  • People for Bikes shares some of the lessons they have learned over the past year about protected bike lanes in the United States.
  • Residents of Calgary worry about a proposed protected bike lane that will go through a pedestrian zone along Stephen Avenue and wonder why the city makes snow removal such a top priority on the 7th Street cycle track.
  • Homeowners in New Zealand don’t want a cycleway in their backyard.