Josh Clark
@heyjoshclark
Use your turn signals. San Diego📍
“On Tuesday, the SFMTA Board of Directors approved an action allowing staff to begin implementing AB 382 immediately, rather than waiting.” Are those City of SD speed management plan posted speed limit signs made yet, or can City Council take action to get some to be even lower ASAP 👀
First biccies in San Diego! I’ve been patiently waiting for the first protected intersection in the region. I thought it was going to be on Santa Fe Dr in Encinitas but that council became anti-bike and redesigned. Then I thought it would be University @ 54th but that got delayed (will still happen)
We rode the nearly-finished Border to Bayshore Bikeway in both directions, it’s nearly 14 miles roundtrip and has lots of amazing design features that make it comfortable for all ages and abilities.
Sadly, there’s very little dedicated bike infra in TJ, but met lots of people working to change that and new bikeways are opening soon. It’s fun to ride in the abandoned BRT lanes, but sad to see the unused shelters.
Highly recommend the new Border to Bayshore Bikeway route as an alternative. It’s on the new printed bike maps and interactive map too geo.sandag.org/portal/apps/...
Lots more short setback charm on the opposite banks near Fitler Square.
Took the urbanist pilgrimage to ye ol charming residences which are now illegal to build.
Might be time we add the centerline flexpost and accept any bicyclist solo crash possibilities to prevent a car hitting someone in the bikeway. (Pic below from UCSD’s Medical Center Hillcrest project)
Fortunately not affecting my life at all, except I’ve seen more people biking. My most frequent trip is for PT @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social Hillcrest and the team is always glad I’m “warmed up” for my session after arriving by bike. They have a bike path from the garage to a protected bike lane.
You can practically hear this pic from Bike Anywhere Day, taken on the in-construction Eastern Hillcrest Bikeway alignment!
NASSCO, Kindred Insurance and Cafe Moto, US Navy, City of Chula Vista and @circulatesd.bsky.social which I forgot to take a pic of :(
Broadway Pier with Radio Latina / Port of SD / Fehr & Peers, US Navy, Bike Coalition of SD, and SD Bicycle Collective
Oops that was Mission Hills/Hillcrest library, Snooze and CR Associates, and @bikesd.bsky.social on future Eastern Hillcrest Bikeways across from Pride Plaza This is Girl Scouts / Roosevelt Middle, Balboa Park groups, Bonnici Law Group, and City of SD / Kimley Hirn / WSP / HNTB
@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.
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...
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 ...
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
.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.
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.