[SDCBC] Lane splitting and bike paths

[trevorspoke at cox.net]

One year I was talking with a staff person in city council district 5 about what bike to work day is about. She thought it would be much more than it was, like Caltrans "closing roads or freeway lanes".

Temporary bike facilities would indeed be easy to create, supposing we wanted to promote Bike to Work Wednesdays throughout the county by choosing popular routes and creating dedicated lanes or even forcing entire roadway detours of motoring. Traffic incidents in the county have caused delays of hours at a time, I don't think it would be impossible. Maybe a little unpopular, until people got out and tried it, or got used to it, or maybe got rewarded for putting up with it.

I know one thing, our San Diego mass transit program is even more clueless than our bicycle program, so if there's hope for the immediate (decades) future bikes are it.

Riding a bike doesn't have to feel great, or be fun, it just has to be better than the other choices you were thinking about before you started the trip.
For many, bike riding will indeed turn out to be fun, which of course will make it more likely to be the better choice. But there's other ways to accomplish the result, including making the other choices less enticing.
I'm all for requiring helmets for motor vehicle occupants, for example. Built-in bluetooth headsets would be cool. ;-)

-- Trevor