Please use the comments to record your observations.
UPDATE: Everyone wants Streetscape ASAP. Blakespear wants a bike lane to replace the “sharrows” in the interim while Streetscape takes months or years. Kranz and Streetscape advocates don’t want bike lanes because they will remove the urgency of Streetscape.
Shhh, Dictator Blakespear is speaking!
ReplyDelete"Thousands" of cyclists daily on the 101. Really??
DeleteThe whole council and coordinated to wear black, ostensibly to honor the downed cyclist. It's good to see they pay attention to the details.
ReplyDeleteKarris Rhodes has no clue she's on camera. She's really going to town gnawing on her nails and flipping her hair all over the place. Hilarious.
ReplyDeleteKranz must be feeling the unrest in his district. He's already in campaign mode.
ReplyDeleteKranz pushing roundabouts he owes developers favors.
ReplyDeleteThe council is shamelessly using a tragedy to push their agenda. If I had been hit on my bike rather than a Main Street employee, would there be such an outcry?
ReplyDeleteWhy only Leucadia 101? Why not every other road in Encinitas?
There are alternative routes to 101. You have to have a death wish to ride on 101. In any clash with a bike and car or truck, the bike loses. They happen almost every day.
Same with a motorcycle or motorbike. Why not special provisions for them?
Does the council realize that bike riders have to ride through roundabouts on the road with cars and trucks?
Do they know that with Streetscape Phoebe south to Leucadia Blvd would still be two lanes?
Do they know that three of the four highly touted roundabouts are at one end? What about all the other intersections?
KLCC sucks. City Council sucks - Supporting a City Management that totally failed at delivering THE priority project and its no where close to being built.
DeleteOh yeah that is one great performing City Management! Way to go go!!! 10 years and counting and now she is really committed. Wow just as committed as bring the quiet zones to Encinita? Wow lightening speed. Could they be any more dysfunctional? Way to support complete failures!!!!
Shame, Shame, Shame to City Council. I hope your thinking of how the run down bicyclists over the last 10 years are feeling from the lack of getting projects done. Pain, Pain, Pain!!!
Shame.
ReplyDeleteFour pedestrian deaths in the last year in other parts of town. Victims not high-visibility residents, so nothing done. No moments of silence, no "fix it now" immediately-agendized items.
ReplyDeleteShame is right, 7:34. Assume you agree?
Indeed. And two of those deaths on the same block on Balour.
DeleteTo be fair, there weren't pending projects intended to fix an identified underlying issue at the pedestrian fatality locations. I'm aware of three on Balour and I believe all were possibly DUI related. One particular location (Encinitas and Balour) has since had striping revised to remove a secondary left turn lane to address the crosswalk fatality.
Delete"Sharrow concept not meant to go on Coast Highway." But...but...but the cyclists asked for the sharrows there.
ReplyDeleteDude blaming the accident on a distracted driver going 40-50 miles per hour, but we still have no details. The sheriff reported neither distracted nor 40-50 mph.
Correct, cyclists did ask for sharrows on 101.
DeleteEmotions have taken over. This is how wars start. Nothing rational comes out of emotional outbursts.
ReplyDeleteBicycling is a huge risk when the overwhelmingly dominant form of transportation is cars and trucks.
Reduce the risk by not riding on Highway 101. I never do cause it's too risky.
Many of the people speaking, including the council members, don't know what they're talking about. Streetscape creates more problems than it solves.
Too much money behind it, too many beholden council members, too much emotion and "let's get this done!" hysteria for the council to think straight.
DeleteBlakespear asking her "professional staff" what they can do. Don't even get me started on "staff." They came up with this Frankenstein.
Sharrows southbound all the way through Solana Beach. Any bike crashes there?
ReplyDeleteExactly. And still no details on the Walker crash.
DeleteThe 10 year delays by City Council and staff - blood all over your hands. Good luck sleeping.
ReplyDeleteHubbard again showing her ignorance and arrogance.
ReplyDeleteHey, Jody, no stop signs north of Leucadia Blvd and only one south — at Marcheta!
Blakespear, how about a safety plan for Hwy 101 all the way through the city?
The day after the sharrows were painted on the south lanes north of Leuc Blvd: Parents riding bikes defiantly in the sharrow lane with their two little kids riding ahead of them.
ReplyDeleteHey, we'll show 'em who owns the road!
Total idiocy!
Child endangerment. Call the sheriff for child protection services.
DeleteGuy wants four stories for affordable housing! Lawyer wants to submit Measure U with some adjustments to HCD. Council votes to do that. Dangerous from an election standpoint because U was citywide and highly unpopular. A lot of voters won't like council members for imposing U.
ReplyDeleteBLAKESPEAR AND BRUST SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO ROBERTA. THE MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER WERE DIRECTED TO GET THIS DONE! WHAT HAPPEN! THEY SOLELY DROPPED THE BALL AND BOTH HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS...
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. Mayor praises the do nothing City Manager. City Manager is the worst and has blown every project in town. Housing element, streetscape, cardiff undergrounding and Birmingham sidewalks, quietzone, Police Station on the beach...... every project is a flop.
DeleteWe need to get some serious fresh blood on the City Council. This one reeks and supports status quo.
The use of capitals only shows an irrationality. Grow up.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to stomach Richard Bulger, booger, or whatever his name.
ReplyDeleteEven harder to take is his skin crawling nimby attitude.
If there is anyone more responsible for the latest housing element failing, it is this one person.
There was plenty wrong with the failed Measure U, but removing L7 was the the one thing that doomed another housing element going down the tubes.
This Richard individual did more to tank the city's effort than anything else.
To hear him again tonight made me want to puke. I feel for anyone who would believe anything coming from this nimby. Oh the horror, to have to hear him spout his so transparent crap.
The city has a clear choice to submit a plan to HCD that will be accepted. Put L7 back on the plan for 100% low income housing. HCD has already told our city that this is why they denied this latest faulty housing element.
If there is any intention to change L7 into some developers dream moneymaker, don't do it. Please.
This Richard person promised the council he and his neighbors would secure Measure iU f they would take it off the list.
On the contrary, it was just this singular move by council that woke up every neighborhood in our city to how this plan was being mismanaged.
There were many things wrong with Measure U, but this was the killer. Thanks Richard. You have some nerve to come back after what you fomented.
L7 is the key to HCD accepting any plan. I hope council knows better this time around. 100% affordability is what is being asked, and L7 is the only city owned property that can satisfy HCD.
That's easy. When U gets sent to HCD send a letter to HCD pointing out L7. It is in the plan as R3 they will ask staff to comment. Blakespear and staff want this site to be R30 anyway.
Delete10:41 is correct! The city needs to adopt L7 now. Catherine and Jody support it, we just need one other council person or maybe, the appointed one.
ReplyDeletePhony and Joe are fellow flops on L7 and the failed housing element.... lets drop Phony Kranz in 2 years. I'd vote for Cameron or even Lynn over Phony.
ReplyDeleteFrom the comments on the Coast News article on the Roberta Walker bicycle accident:
ReplyDeleteEli 2 hours ago
I was one of the first people to stop on the scene of this accident, yes it is tragic but the bike in question had no lights or reflectors on it and the rider was not wearing a Reflective vest. We need to improve safety for bike riding no question but this accident was at dawns light and bikers need to play their part in the work of safety on the 101. I wish Miss Walker a Swift recovery.
As suspected by so many. Horrible without doubt about walker. No one wishes this on her.
DeleteHowever, if a cyclist goes out in the dark as she did, how could streetscape have prevented her accident?
Good question, 2:54.
DeleteAnswer: Streetscape includes a bike lane with no cars in it.
Your bike lane merges six times into a single lane, with cars, into roundabouts. Say you're a cyclist in the dark with nothing to call attention to yourself. You merge and...answer?
DeleteTo make it even more interesting, you have six tries not to get hit. I'm no mathematician, so can't answer the probability of disaster.
Streetscape creates more problems than it solves. If you want a bike lane, put one in. No one is stopping anyone from doing that. The Mayor called for immediate bike lanes striped. Do it. You don't need the overcemented insanity that the city has planned for us now.
There will be bike lane exit ramps before each roundabout and the bikes will all use the crosswalks on the side streets like a pedestrian would. And then the bike will enter into the bike lane after each roundabout. The other option is for the bike to enter the traffic lane with the cars and use sharrows to enter the roundabout. This is where a lot of conflicts will be especially when car traffic is stopped in the roundabouts backed up from the Leucadia street signal.
DeleteSo the cyclists dismount at each roundabout?
DeleteNo, they ride up a ramp onto the sidewalk, cross the side street in the crosswalk, then ride down another ramp back into the bike lane. Or they can ride in the roundabouts with the cars and trucks like Leucadia Blvd and Santa Fe Drive.
DeleteSounds great, right? It's about as stupid and impractical as the rest of the project.
And incidentally, there are only four roundabouts planned. The two at La Costa Ave and New Road were nixed. Three are at Sea Bluff, Grandview and Jupiter. That's a half mile. The fourth is more than a mile away at El Portal.
None of the many other intersections have roundabouts, so the claim of slowing the traffic through the whole corridor and keeping it flowing is bullshit.
Actually, the whole plan is bullshit. Only gullible, uninformed and misinformed people think it's a good idea.
OMG. It's like no one at city hall has ever seen people on bikes. Militant cyclists routinely ignore stop signs and traffic lights. On what planet will they ride up a ramp onto the sidewalk, cross the side street in the crosswalk, then ride down another ramp back into the bike lane?
DeleteIf they do ride in roundabouts with cars and trucks I really, really do not want to hear about their plight when they're struck down.
What an absolutely asinine couple of choices. These solve nothing, but guess what? They sure do pay a lot of salaries for years to come. And they sure do pave the way (pun intended) for high density along the 101 corridor.
Dear moron at 9:28.
DeleteA car can’t go more than 10-15 mph through a roundabout, which is the same speed as a bike.
Cars can’t “strike down” an object from behind going the same speed.
Hope this helps.
How do you know cars will be going the same speed as bicycles? Cars can go as fast as they like; if too fast, they just go over the top as they do on Leucadia Blvd. Thousands of pounds against 20-30 at any speed ain't good, 11:38.
DeletePlenty of drivers go through the Leu B and Santa Fe Dr roundabouts without slowing down. It just takes two little twists of the wheel.
DeleteDriving any faster than a bike through a roundabout requires focus and attention. A focused and attentive driver sees the cyclists. The greatest threat to the cyclist is the bored and distracted driver, who can't speed through a roundabout.
DeleteThere are plenty of incidents of motorcyclists plowing into drivers who turn in front of them. The turning driver is looking for oncoming cars. Motorcyclists sometimes don't register. Same is true for bicyclists and pedestrians. The resulting collisions are called accidents because, well, they're accidents.
DeleteThe likelihood of cyclists obeying that is zilch.
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