People submitted emails to me regarding street improvements vis-à-vis bikes and cars, in response to my queries in local media, including The Santa Barbara Independent. The final numbers are:

Make our streets “work” for both bikes and cars — 30

Make our streets better for bikes, including reducing car parking and lanes if necessary — 55

Do not reduce car parking and lanes — 145

Almost universally, people want to make bike riding safer if possible. I agree and believe we can “have our cake and eat it, too” by improving some existing bike “thoroughfares” with physical separation from cars while not reducing car lanes or parking. I plan to present ways of doing this to the City Council so that people can see it’s not a matter of cars or bikes but a matter of both working well together. That’s the Santa Barbara way.

Login

Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription

Not a member? Sign up here.