I work in a super industrial area, and many of my coworkers and I use the bus or bikes, and scooters to get to work. Safe bike lanes(preferably bus/bike lanes for my area) would be incredibly valuable. Keeping car traffic down so the haulers can get where they need to go without headaches, while ensuring the individual workers have a safe means of commuting is a no-brainer.
The section of Mission Gorge/Fairmount (southbound) that goes under 8 always scares the crap out of me, I feel like I'm playing a live action version of bicyclist-frogger. I ride through there often to access Grantville from Kensington, via the I-15 bike lane and the cyclo-cross hole in the fence from Camino del Rio S to Fairmount.
There was in interesting article in the NYT this morning, where German Lopez wrote "Americans have embraced social libertarianism--the view that emphasizes individual freedom...Libertarianism gives people the freedom to make their own choices, which works well when the choices produce few or no meaningful harms (like a gay couple's decision to marry). But libertarianism also lets people make harmful choices that ripple across society." I see the car-brain mentalities that we face daily as part of this. It's a personal choice to drive a car, and society enables that; it's also a personal choice to ride a bike. But the car is harmful in ways that ripple across society, like in pollution created, open and public spaces lost, and the stagger amount of traffic violence and deaths as a result of drivers every year.
I work in a super industrial area, and many of my coworkers and I use the bus or bikes, and scooters to get to work. Safe bike lanes(preferably bus/bike lanes for my area) would be incredibly valuable. Keeping car traffic down so the haulers can get where they need to go without headaches, while ensuring the individual workers have a safe means of commuting is a no-brainer.
The section of Mission Gorge/Fairmount (southbound) that goes under 8 always scares the crap out of me, I feel like I'm playing a live action version of bicyclist-frogger.
I ride through there often to access Grantville from Kensington, via the I-15 bike lane and the cyclo-cross hole in the fence from Camino del Rio S to Fairmount.
the reason there can't be a bike lane is because cars need a place to park when they get in an accident with cyclists
There was in interesting article in the NYT this morning, where German Lopez wrote "Americans have embraced social libertarianism--the view that emphasizes individual freedom...Libertarianism gives people the freedom to make their own choices, which works well when the choices produce few or no meaningful harms (like a gay couple's decision to marry). But libertarianism also lets people make harmful choices that ripple across society." I see the car-brain mentalities that we face daily as part of this. It's a personal choice to drive a car, and society enables that; it's also a personal choice to ride a bike. But the car is harmful in ways that ripple across society, like in pollution created, open and public spaces lost, and the stagger amount of traffic violence and deaths as a result of drivers every year.
@RidingBikesinSanDiego this is 100% the Truth