[SDCBC] Pet peeve: cyclists have "no choice" but to beunsafe/crazy

[John Eldon]

Douglas is correct. At the workshop Kathy Keehan and I attended, the presenter noted that the cycling clubs would presumably just take the right lane and stay on the main highway. Fortunately, bicyclists won the fight to keep the northbound bike lane when the two-way multiuse path was installed on the east side of 101.

The situation in Leucadia is a bit different, in the sense that there is (fortunately) no option for diversion to the west, unless one were to establish a very ill-advised contraflow bike lane on Neptune, which is a northbound one-way street. (Plenty of local and through cyclists do this already, but this is not something I would want to try at anything above 5-10mph.) The question then becomes how best to accommodate southbound bicyclists on Coast Highway 101, and options are few: 1) take the right lane, preferably with a reduced speed limit; 2) door zone bike lane (the most recent drawing I saw); 3) cross the railroad tracks to a new southbound bike lane on Vulcan Av.; and 4) two-way bike lane on the east side of 101, with contraflow southbound cyclists. I consider option 4 completely unacceptable for many reasons, and I shall make that point at tonight's workshop.

John E.

Douglas Alden <dalden at ucsd.edu> wrote: Solana Beach has a capital improvement project in the works for Hwy 101 
(CIP Project No. 14).  Plans I saw showed that the southbound bike lane 
would be removed from Coast Hwy to allow for parking.   Southbound bike 
traffic would be directed one block west to the street that runs 
parallel to Coast Hwy.  This project is out for bid.  Money has not been 
allocated for the project yet.

Douglas


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