San Diegans who like would like their city to be more bike-friendly! Attend the Uptown Regional Bike Corridor Meeting this evening! (I would go if I were still there—but as i’m not, it’s up to you!! :] sry late notice, though)

June 12, 2013. 6 – 8:30 p.m.
Santa Fe Room, Balboa Park Club
2144 Pan American Road West. 

University Ave. spans multiple neighborhoods —Mission Hills, Hillcrest, North Park, City Heights—yet has no safe cycle infrastructure to connect them. There is no parallel west-east residential street that would work as a “bicycle boulevard” because they get cut off by canyons and freeways, plus all the destinations are on University. Root for cycle tracks on University Ave!

A horrible, dangerous intersection on University Ave. at Sixth Ave in Hillcrest. I used to live two blocks away. The pavement is bumpy here, and if you didn’t already know the layout in this area, you could have accidentally right-turned down into the freeway. NOT KIDDING.

cycle tracks in Rotterdam, NL. (for Dutch standards, Rotterdam is considered a pretty car-centric city, but they still put in cycle tracks so it’s bike-friendly)

read more: SDGLN, 12.06.13.

but even if you can’t make the meeting this evening, you can still show your support by joining local nonprofit advocacy group BikeSD and/or by sending an email to your councilmember and/or SANDAG.

thegreenurbanist:

“Mayor Emanuel’s announcement that the first protected bike lane will be coming to the Loop later this year is cause for celebration!”

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“But with the anti-bike crowd calling protected bike lanes “bunk” and a “giant waste of money,” we need your support now. Please sign the petition below asking decision-makers to follow through on plans to build protected bike lanes in the Loop and achieve 100 miles of protected bike lanes across the city by 2015.”

- ATA

Sign here.

Three years ago today, bicycling history was made in San Francisco. On June 26, 2009, the Bicycle Plan was at the top of the agenda at City Hall and the SF Bicycle Coalition members showed up in force to get the job done. SFMTA Board members listened to over three hours of testimony from more than 200 supporters, including mothers with children in tow, business owners, health workers, city department heads and students who packed the hearing room and an overflow room.

The outcome: the adoption of a new Bike Plan, and approval of 45 bike network improvement projects all in a single day. This victory was the result of the powerful testimony and more than three years of strong SF Bicycle Coalition advocacy, including dozens of volunteers going door-to-door to collect more than 150 letters of support from businesses, thousands of individuals sending support letters and signing petitions, and countless hours of grassroots organizing by committed SF Bicycle Coalition volunteers and staff. Together, we did it! Browse some great photos from the victorious day.

Since then the City has implemented over 20 miles of new bike lanes, installed over a thousand bike racks (and more than twenty-five on-street bike parking corrals), set out green pavement in bike boxes, sharrows, and along Market Street separated bike lanes, and much more. Having trouble keeping up? Check out our One More Link page to review all the bike network projects that have been implemented so far, take a look at what’s coming up, and share your joy and appreciation with Mayor Lee and SFMTA chief Ed Reiskin. What’s your favorite new bike lane? How has better biking on better bikeways improved your life? Where do we go next? Anything is possible with active engaged members and a great city for bicycling! Thank you for all your work, and don’t forget to thank your city leaders.

from the SFbike newsletter.

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Dashed green pavement treatment on Grove Street bicycle lanes approaching Polk Street.