[SDCBC] "Official Bike Routes?" was Re: Bogota vs. San Diego

[Jim Baross, Jr.]

Derek:
Have you seen the Regional Bike Map? Not all, certainly, but some 
bike routes are marked with destination signs already, right? We 
could do better of course. There are State approved signs for 
numbering bike routes - San Francisco has some.
Getting around town on comfortable routes for bicycling can be very 
challenging... without a guide.
Maybe you or someone would like a project to work out a good route 
that could use signing/naming? and put together a proposal that the 
Coalition might persuade the City, County or ? to fund?

At 10:09 AM 3/31/2008, you wrote:
>As a short-term, possibly cheaper alternative to building new fully 
>separated bike paths along freeways, how about creating "official" 
>bike routes that roughly parallel freeways, using existing streets 
>and new signs pointing the way? For example, the SR-52 bike route 
>could use Clairemont Mesa Boulevard for one leg of the route.
>
>On 3/30/08, Gene Carman 
><<mailto:gcarman at san.rr.com>gcarman at san.rr.com> wrote:
>Actually a bikepath "hiway" along the same routes of the existing 
>freeways would probably serve the largest population in the area due 
>to population growth that tends to occur along freeways.  Cyclists 
>want to go to the same locations as drivers.
>In many cases, there is a wider amount of land dedicated to the 
>freeway right of way then is actually used for freeway...  a single 
>bikepath can be created in less space then 2 new lanes on a freeway, 
>and along the same right of way.   Adding a 10 foot wide bikepath 
>can reduce the traffic load on a freeway more then adding two 10 
>foot wide lanes to a Freeway can reduce congestion.
>Funding should come from the same agencies that fund 
>Freeways...  bike transportation facilities are simply another form 
>of public transportation.
>OK, I've answered all the questions...  when do we get started?
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