Bike lane on northbound Park Blvd in San Diego north of El Cajon Blvd blocked by four cars.

Just the customary four cars blocking the bike lane on early Monday evening.

Balboa Park institutions warn of drop in visits, while city data show parking revenue keeps rising But park leaders declined to provide data supporting their claim that attendance and revenue drops have worsened.

If they have the money to arrive by the most expensive means, they have the money to pay for parking.

"A January poll of San Diego residents...found that 80% wanted paid parking in Balboa Park eliminated or reduced, and 69% said the fees would make them visit less often."

Sanity

Republicans are evil.

Bus etiquette 101:
- Be ready to board when the bus arrives
- Have your fare ready

Meanwhile, the windows are darkly-tinted so you can't see where the person driving is looking.

There aren't going to be any fast-moving compensation vehicles on those streets.

Camping and wine in North Park in San Diego.

Is open container in North Park good now?

When you're driving a car on a city street, your number one job is to not hit anything else. Slow down if you're going too fast for that.

The droughts aren't in fixed locations and neither are locations with an occasional surplus.

Perfect for tagging.

Those settlements need to come out of the LAPD budget and pay raises.

“The mayor ran on a platform of saving lives and encouraging mode shift but has fallen short of doing either. With this budget proposal, it’s clear that he lacks the vision and political will to do much of anything he promised to do when running,” - Anar Salayev, Executive Director of BikeSD.

Mayor Gloria's Budget Has Deep Cuts for Safety and Bicycle Program for the San Diego Department of Transportation - Streetsblog California Gloria when running for re-election in 2024, "Even in a difficult budget year we still put good money towards our Vision Zero plans.” Gloria's 2026 budget: Elimination of funding for the multi-modal t...

San Diego has more pavement than it is willing or able to tax itself to maintain. San Diego needs to stop maintaining the full width of its overly wide streets instead of cutting funding in a lot of other areas including street safety.

The "US Panel" that approved the Trump Arch is composed entirely of Trump appointees.

A big strength of the U.S. military had been logistics. That no longer seems to be the case under Trump.

That business is a half block away from the intersection of 4 bus routes, has a bike lane in front of it, a large parking structure across the street, and there's also nearby on-street parking. That's a lot of different options for reaching that business.

The stadium is in Arlington, TX, the largest city in the U.S. with no fixed-route transit. So temporary bus service is begin set up to provide service from other transit service in the region to the stadium. Or they could have played in stadiums in cities that have actual transit.

San Diego Mayor proposes scaling back some bike lane projects to balance the city budget for fiscal year 2027 San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria announced his proposed budget for fiscal year 2027 on Wednesday, signaling possible cuts to some controversial bike lane projects to help balance the city's budget.

"I wish they would take this bike lane away and give us our parking back," said Kelly

It's not his parking. And his business is across the street from the large North Park parking garage.

It arrived at my destination 12 minutes late, mostly due to the number of people boarding and exiting the bus. Having card readers at every door with all-door boarding would reduce the delays.

Gloria proposes layoffs, furloughs and deep cuts to arts, libraries, recreation to close $146M deficit Mayor’s spending plan for new fiscal year proposes wide variety of other cuts in what could be bleakest San Diego budget in 15 years.

No more bike lanes in San Diego?

"Other cuts include homeless services, facilities maintenance, zoning enforcement, park rangers, restroom closures in some parks and elimination of a team that adds bike lanes across the city."

Crash delaying traffic on the southbound 15 by 30 minutes.

Crash delaying traffic on the southbound 15 by 30 minutes. Meanwhile, I'm on the 290 with no delay.

Crash delaying traffic on the southbound 15 by 30 minutes, but no delay at all on the 290. Transit for the win.

MTS Rapid 235 bus on a Tuesday evening from downtown San Diego to Escondido.

Not even close to empty bus vibes on the 235 every evening. Ridership is growing and I was one of 9 people to board at my stop. Hey U-T, what would it cost to move
all of these people in 30+ AVs?

Can This Tool Predict Where Your City's Next Car Crash Will Happen? — Streetsblog USA But will U.S. transportation leaders use it to take preemptive action to make roadways safer?

"...the company has built a robust dataset...on trends like cell phone distraction, hard-braking, and speeding. Actuaries say all those behaviors are highly predictive of future collisions, particularly when they happen again and again at the same sites."

Meanwhile in San Diego, MTS bus service will remain at less than pre-pandemic frequency.

But someone did a "study" 5 years ago for 20 "peak commuting" hours during the pandemic and concluded no one is using those bike lanes.

When I have to cross a large parking lot after exiting transit to get to services, it widens the already large time penalty of using transit versus driving. It's self-defeating.

Why will San Diego request that Caltrans remove the northbound bus lane on Park Boulevard over Interstate 5, but won't ask Caltrans to close the gap in bike lanes on University Avenue on the bridge over the 163? Would it be different if Mayor Useless traveled anywhere outside of his black SUV?

If San Diego cut the width of its wide streets in half, it could have streets that are both safer and with pavement in better condition. But when fast movement of cars is the priority, neither of those will ever happen.

Charge by weight and space occupied. If I pay 25 cents to park my bike, a large SUV will pay over $100. That's fair and I could live with that.