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‘Freeway Exit’ Podcast Tells San Diego’s Freeway Histories of Growth, Displacement, and Division
Learn the forgotten history of our urban freeway network, and how decades after that network was finished, some communities are still working to heal the wounds that freeways left behind.
July 13, 2023
San Diego Sued for Putting in a Bike Lane
A lawsuit filed last week in San Diego [PDF] claims that the city did an inadequate CEQA analysis for a recent road diet and new bike lane on a stretch of Fifth Avenue.
December 22, 2014
San Diego Fights CA Courts for Its Highway-Happy Plan to Increase Emissions
Despite what CA's courts say, San Diego insists on plans to widen freeways in its 2050 Regional Transportation Plan, even if it defies the state's ambitions to reduce climate-changing car dependency.
December 19, 2014
Court: Environmental Review for San Diego’s Highway-Happy Plan Inadequate
The California Court of Appeals yesterday confirmed a lower court ruling that the environmental impact report (EIR) for San Diego's long-range regional transportation plan was inadequate. The EIR, said the court, underplayed the impact of the emissions that would result from its highway-building, sprawl-inducing plan.
November 25, 2014
Bike San Diego Wins National Advocacy Award, Sets Sights Higher
Bike San Diego won this year's Advocacy Organization of the Year award from the Alliance for Biking and Walking at the National Bike Summit earlier this month in Washington, D.C. Pretty good for an all-volunteer-run organization that has only been around for a little over a year.
March 17, 2014
Locals Nominated for National Bike Advocacy Award
Congratulations to Cynthia Rose, founder and director of Santa Monica Spoke, and Samantha Ollinger, Executive Director of BikeSD in San Diego. These two local activists are among the ten finalists for the 2014 Advocate of the Year Award to be given by the Alliance for Biking and Walking today.
March 3, 2014
Judge Rules Transportation Plan in San Diego Violates State Enviro. Laws
When it was passed last March, the long-term transportation plan was hailed as "visionary" for its investment in transit, bicycling and pedestrian projects. The plan was the first regional plan passed under S.B. 375, a landmark piece of legislation that mandated that transportation plans be tied to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. And San Diego leadership was proud.
December 4, 2012
SANDAG’s 2050 Transportation Plan Drawing More and More Heat
When the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) passed its 2050 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy, it declared a major victory over Greenhouse Gas emissions. The plan was the first plan written to adhere to a 2008 law mandating that long-term transportation plans show a commitment to reducing air pollutants linked to global warming and a slew of public health problems.
February 21, 2012
AG Joins Lawsuit Against Highway-Friendly “Transit Plan” in San Diego
When the San Diego Association of Governments passed its regional transportation plan, which will direct transportation spending in the region for decades, the agency hailed the plan as a national model. This was the first plan passed that followed the standards of SB 375, the California environmental law that set greenhouse gas reduction targets based on transportation and development planning.
January 27, 2012
With Los Angeles as Inspiration, San Diego Enviros Call for 50/10 Plan
Environmentalists from San Diego are echoing the rhetoric of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in the battle to expand the local transit network and reduce funding for highway expansion.
January 24, 2011