A line of bikes, many e-bikes, parked outside an elementary school.
@asmchrisward.bsky.social please oppose AB-1557 tomorrow which would make all these e-bikes illegal that me and fellow Grant TK-8 parents use to get our kids to school in your district every day.
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Rallies are happening across the country:
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Bike thieves are a persistent plague. The first line of defense: a good bike lock. To find the best bike lock, we ordered 35 of the toughest we could find and then sawed, chopped, and cut them to pieces. nyti.ms/4srpiHD
While there is unfortunate language in this year's Safe Streets and Roads for All grant opportunity, USDOT webinars have said less favorable considerations are not hard penalties, each can be addressed by data analysis or site selection
Not applying for bike lanes guarantees bike lanes are unfunded
California planners, engineers, public works & public health pros - there's still time to apply for the CA Safe System Institute for Road Safety – a hands-on cohort to advance Vision Zero 2.0 locally.
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I’d be very curious to see it too but I don’t believe there will be any mode share modeling conducted for this plan.
Based on this draft network, looks like the highlighted step needs reanalyzing. Any roadway with posted speeds of 25 mph or 3k ADT is out of alignment with the referenced guidance. ADT (avg vehicle volumes per day, modeled) mapped for many of these streets here experience.arcgis.com/experience/8...
The webmap survey is open until Thursday, April 30th. Click the "Add Marker" button to add a point as either Agree, Disagree, or Something Missing. You can also upvote / downvote added points.
City's draft street design manual states, "Traffic calming measures are not typically installed at roadway classifications higher than local streets per community plan roadway network classifications, except in limited instances (such as use of V-Calm signs)" www.sandiego.gov/sites/defaul...
Without a Planned Functional Class map and table (example below) demonstrating how these roadways will have vehicle volumes at 3k ADT or less, it's hard to take the Bike Boulevard - Class III Enhanced planned bikeways seriously ...
NACTO Contextual Guidance for Selecting All Ages & Abilities Bikeway, 2017
Caltrans Design Information Bulletin-94 Complete Streets: Contextual Design Guidance, 2024
Add Adams Ave in Uni and Normal Heights, University Ave in North Park, Euclid Ave in City Heights and MANY in the beach communities to that list of roadways where the City's Class IV First approach from the Mobility Master Plan, and NACTO table or Caltrans chart below they cite should be adhered to
But their Planned Bike Blvd Network includes many streets with ADT 2-4x that number (see link below). Downtown is especially full of them - Market Street downtown, India, Kettner, E Street, Ash, Broadway, Cedar, 4th, 5th, 8th, Island, Park Blvd s/o K St.
experience.arcgis.com/experience/8...
The only existing Bike Blvd designated by the City is Landis Bikeway, used as their representative photo here. The City's Draft Street Design Manual Update states that a Bike Boulevard is only for residential roads with less than 3,000 Average Daily Traffic (ADT) to reduce car / bike passing events.
East/West through streetcar suburbs on the mesa rely on North Park/Mid-City bikeways, emphasizing the need for the Robinson Bridge and Howard Bikeway to connect to Uptown. You can see the All Ages and Abilities network is very sparse, intended to be connected by "Bike Boulevard - Class III Enhanced"
There are protected bikeways planned to close the gaps on Harbor Drive, Pacific Highway, India St in Middletown, Park Blvd in Hillcrest and other good north/south connectors like 47th/Fairmount, 54th, and College Ave
Some are new to the network, some are in recently adopted community plans
Reminder of the mode share targets in the legally-binding landmark Climate Action Plan bsky.app/profile/heyj... we're at .6% commute to work mode share, For reference, the first major city to hit our 2030 goal (7%) was Portland. The 2021 Regional Plan has City of SD at just 1.5% mode share by 2035
The City of San Diego released their Draft Bicycle Master Plan Update Network fp.mysocialpinpoint.com/sd-bikeplan let's take a look.
This article does a good job describing the “before” condition (class III shared lane) and the effect that an upgrade to class IV separated bikeways has had on ridership.
@asmchrisward.bsky.social & staff deserve much credit for seeing this project through completion while he was Councilmember.
I know the Cinderella team I’m rooting for! #MoValMarchMadness @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social
214 San Diego to 209 Moreno Valley!
It’s sooo close!
but they’ve got to be the target user prioritized in the redesigns of these roadways if we’re going to meet these goals. We’ve seen the results of doing this for motorists over the past century, it’s how we’ve gotten such high drive alone and carpool numbers.
Easier said than done, the commute mode share chart shows a supermajority of people choose other modes and many will see these conversions as taking something from them. The 7% of people biking by 2030 group is never going to send enough thank you emails, write enough posts, do enough interviews …
Parking lanes and travel lanes throughout the city are ripe for upgrade like the recent Clairemont Drive example above. Biking is now an option for more people, every road user is safer, it’s time to acknowledge that’s more important than other factors and quickly get over the “hill of hysteria”
City of San Diego ACS commute to work mode share data for 2023
Person biking on Clairemont Drive in the protected bikeway separated from two vehicular lanes with flexposts.
.7 in 2023, it dropped to .6 in 2024
We’ve got to invest more in biking, and convert more of the transportation network to serve this mode, upgrading a parking lane and a travel lane to cycle tracks. Governor Drive still represents a great opportunity for improvements to shift trips to other modes.
bsky.app/profile/heyj... City of SD CAP goals for biking in 2030 are Portland’s in its best year levels (7%) and we’re at .7% ☹️
A pedestrian died on W. Point Loma Blvd yesterday. We need to declare a state of emergency and push all available finite resources towards CAP and VZ goals.
Speed differentials might be a bit high between downhill/uphill riders with occasional people walking / running in it too as de facto sidewalk but yeah, seems like the better alternative.
They typically just limit work to between the curbs on these resurfacing projects. Sidewalk would be nice, but are quite expensive and isn’t this the cross country course? Painful memories tell me it is 😮💨
Thanks! It’s an improvement, reminds me of similar in Banker’s Hill which are appreciated. Should the City’s “Class IV first” approach apply uphill on the Morley Field side here w/ floating parking, even if it means removing parking on the downhill side? Should a downhill bike lane be prioritized?
Roundabout and protected bikeways near Park Village elementary school in San Diego.
This City can and does do really quality bikeways and complete streets projects too. Here’s a good example in PQ (see street view maps.app.goo.gl/ib8WLhCPB9sb...)
We should probably temper our expectations about what can be done during resurfacing v. reconstruction.
Submitted 1 on behalf of this bicyclist who has their own system for dealing with bike lane blockers. (Of course driver was absent and missed this PSA 😤)