Please sign this petition for a buffered bike lane on Highway 101 in Encinitas! (North County San Diego)

The section of Highway 101 between La Costa and Leucadia is a 40 mph road and a buffered bicycle lane will allow more cyclists to start riding.

Watch this streetfilm to see why buffered bike lanes are important.
also: recent examples from SF, Chicago (Kinzie Street).

SAN DIEGO PEEPZ! 
Spread this around, please!  

Highway 101

I’m adding a bunch of comments to the UCSD Bike-Ped Master Plan map, and the horrifying fact hits me again:

The entire UTC (University Town Center)/UCSD area is SHIT. 
All auto-oriented, multiple travel lanes, no pedestrian refuges, a nightmare to walk or bike in.

It’s ridiculous how one could live right across the street from a shopping center or park but have to j-walk across a dangerous road to get there.

American urban planning fail. 

This is Villa La Jolla Drive, just a block south from UCSD campus. Lots of people live in these houses or apartments on the right side of this street. There’s a big shopping center on the left side of the street including a movie theatre, supermarket, and restaurants. NO CROSSWALK! Although if you’ve read the DMV driving handbook carefully, you’d know that anywhere there are corners they are *legit* “crosswalks” where you must yield to pedestrians. (Which you know, is kinda rare for anyone to do.)

This is 6th Avenue facing south. Lots of people live in the neighborhood on the right side of the street. The beautiful Balboa Park with its green grass and museums and zoo are on the left side of the street. NO CROSSWALK! Every time I bike up/down 6th ave, I witness someone trying to j-walk or wait forever trying to cross the street just to go walk their dogs! And this is only a (relatively narrow) 4 lane road. But cars speed on 6th because there are few traffic lights and NO stop signs. 

So yeah, this is the state of San Diego. of socal. or much of America.

Dude, I just moved to a new pad right across from the park/whole foods! 
Sweet!
But every time I cross the street to walk my dog / buy groceries I think I’m gonna get hit by a car.
WTF 

went to SF and my hometown of Berkeley today.

saw cyclists everywhere, every minute. 

lots of bikes parked in front of shops, the library, the YMCA.. especially in Downtown Berkeley.

I swear it wasn’t like this a few years ago.

It’s not just commuters and fixie hipsters—but more normal people. a lady in skirt and coat with with backpack on bike’s rear rack, someone gone shopping, a high schooler, a couple black men, older asians… **important that not just white people cycling! (there was some article about this, I’ll have to refind it later)**

yeah I didn’t bring my camera.

but oh well. I still have all my Finland & Sweden photos to upload. :)

Who among us has the time, stamina or ego to ride a bicycle to work? Ego? When was the last time you saw a cyclist stop for a stop sign? Or wait his turn at the end of a line of cars backed up at an intersection? Besides, I’d look silly in cyclist couture. Imagine me in a Castelli Sorpasso bib tight cycling suit (available online for around $179.95 plus shipping). I’ve never paid that much for a real suit.

John McCarron (Chicago Tribune columnist) was obviously asking for a drubbing from the bike crowd, and the bloggers have been happy to oblige:

“It’s the sort of screed we’ve come to expect, full of outdated stereotypes, faulty logic, and straight-up misinformation,” wrote Jason Tinkey.

“This isn’t a war on cars,” ranted Brent Cohrs. “This is a war on declining living conditions. It’s a war against air pollution and the health issues toxic emissions exacerbate for everyone. It’s a war against congestion and all the precious time, effort, and energy it wastes for everyone.”

read more: grist.org, 02.12.11.

there’ll always be people like this. until they die off or move to an isolated suburb.

Big ups to the Windy City’s mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Hopefully he gets his goal of 100miles of separated (!!!!) bike lanes built within 5 years, if not sooner. Hopefully this first one completed recently will warm people up, and more and more people start cycling so that the next miles of separated bike lanes will come easily, naturally and without hassle.