Recent Streetsblog LA posts about San Diego

San Diego Sued for Putting in a Bike Lane

By Melanie Curry | Dec 22, 2014 | 28 Comments

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. The city’s Bicycle Master Plan calls for a bike lane on that section of the street, and lists it as a priority […]

San Diego Fights CA Courts for Its Highway-Happy Plan to Increase Emissions

By Melanie Curry | Dec 19, 2014

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. As Eric Jaffe at CityLab wrote, the story is told in one simple chart created by opponents of the plan, which shows that it projects that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions […]

Court: Environmental Review for San Diego’s Highway-Happy Plan Inadequate

By Melanie Curry | Nov 25, 2014 | 2 Comments

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. SANDAG approved its regional transportation plan in October 2011. It […]

Bike San Diego Wins National Advocacy Award, Sets Sights Higher

By Melanie Curry | Mar 17, 2014

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. During that year, however, BikeSD shifted from being […]

Locals Nominated for National Bike Advocacy Award

By Melanie Curry | Mar 3, 2014 | 2 Comments

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. The award is for an individual […]

Judge Rules Transportation Plan in San Diego Violates State Enviro. Laws

By Damien Newton | Dec 4, 2012 | 5 Comments

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 […]

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