Strategy 3: Biking, Walking, Public Transportation and development
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The Complete Streets implementation in Downtown San Diego
Implementation continues to build bike lanes downtown. At Sixth Avenue and Beech Street, convert the one-way bike lane to two-way with its own traffic light. In addition, the next phase of the Pacific Highway has been funded and projected to be complete in 2021, from Grande Palm Court Street to Laurel Street.
Roundabouts
The city continues work to develop roundabouts as part of our strategy to increase traffic safety and reduce emissions. More than a dozen sites throughout the city are in various stages of development, from design to construction.
Roundabouts replaced traffic lights on La Jolla Boulevard, increasing safety for people biking or walking.
Vision Zero
In November 2020, the city published its strategic plan for vision zero 2020-2025. The plan detailed the progress so far made since when it adopted the vision zero plan in 2015, stabilizing the goal of eliminating deaths and serious injuries on the streets. from the city. Since 2015, the city has designed new standards for pedestrian crossings, analyzed years of accident data to recommend systemic changes to increase the safety of walking and biking throughout the city, and invested more than $ 140 million in safe infrastructure. .
Mobility Options
The Compete Communities: Mobility Choices initiative supports safe, walkable, and transit-oriented communities by installing infrastructure that makes it easy to get out and about throughout San Diego. Mobility Options implements the environmental action plan through the development strategy, provides a streamlined and consistent process for priority areas for transit and for efficient areas of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the city. The policy allows a way to fund infrastructure projects or amenities for walking, biking, and using public transportation such as planting shady trees, high-visibility crosswalks, and bicycle facilities. At least 50% of the funds will be dedicated to projects in Priority Communities. These investments support the goals of the environmental action plan to reduce VMT by developing other ways to travel without a car that are convenient and reliable.
Better by Bike
Volunteers helped young people learn to ride bicycles during a City-sponsored community event in Encanto.
Better by Bike is an education and engagement campaign launched by the City of San Diego and the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition in May 2020. The campaign wants to promote the diversity of biking, supporting more bike lane infrastructure, and increasing the number of people riding bikes. Better by Bike published its first blog in August, featuring the personal stories of people on bikes, news about new bike infrastructure, and resources for new cyclists. The campaign hosted three events – Bike Challenge of the Month using the Love to Ride app, a Mid-City search for bicycles at local businesses and an online bike class for kids in grades K-12 and parents in the community of Encanto.
Better By Bike won the 2020 Circulate Momentum Award in the innovation category during COVID-19 for its creativity in engaging the public, allowing them to get out, support local businesses, and explore their neighborhood in a safe and healthy way.
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