[SDCBC] Bogota vs. San Diego

[Jim Baross, Jr.]

I'm happy and supportive of Eric's inspirations! Speaking in 
generalities, this sounds and could be wonderful... though you are 
likely to read responses about how it couldn't or shouldn't be done.  :-(
To seriously act on the inspiration - one that isn't BTW new to many 
of us - something besides dreaming and typing needs doing, right?

Now, a few task suggestions. Figure out exactly where you think such 
a proposal would work in the San Diego area; a Bike Path or maybe a 
Bicycle Boulevard or ? ... connecting what and following or creating 
what route... then maybe think about/research an estimate of costs 
'cause besides location, cost matters big time! You might be ready 
then with a proposal that SDCBC, an individual, or ? would propose to 
the site-owning agency for funding. Sound exciting? Good, then do it.

It's sort of useless to debate the generalities between facility 
types when it's the specific site and uses that make for bigger 
differences, IMHO. Let's get specific.
* Ban all but bikes, transit and delivery vehicles in a downtown 
area?... or impose single-occupancy vehicle use taxes for downtown 
like London has?
* Create a Bike Path/MUP/Bike Boulevard linking Mid City or UCSD/SDSU 
or ? to Downtown or University Town Center/La Mesa or ?
* what?

Jim (likes dreams, lives reality) Baross

At 01:52 AM 3/30/2008, Eric Converse wrote:
>I've been inspired.  These recent discussions on bicycle paths have 
>led me to create the following blog entry:
>
>San Diego and Bogota Columbia (a bicyle path comparison):
><http://www.ativsolutions.com/cblog>www.ativsolutions.com/cblog
>
>In short, you'll notice that Bogota (serving a much larger, and 
>poorer, population) does a couple of things we don't do here.  Their 
>bicycle paths are contiguous and are routed through major population 
>centers.  While many of our bicycle paths, while pretty (riding next 
>to the water mainly),are often fragmented with huge gaps between 
>them.  What we need are long continuous paths (much like our freeway 
>system) that provide a backbone for this city's bicycle 
>transportation network.  Needless to say we won't always be on a 
>bicycle path no matter how good we make the system, but we can 
>provide a network that links the city together and serves vastly more people.
>
>Can't we do at least as good as a poor city in a third world country?
>
>Eric
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