 afternoon. I'm Kendra Ramsey, she, her Executive Director of the California Bicycle Coalition, and I'm joining you today from Sacramento. I'm so excited to see such a great group of folks from all over the state here with us today. Welcome. This is the first of a series of sessions which will preview topics likely to be discussed at the 2024 California Bicycle Summit to be held April 18th to 19th in San Diego. Today's session is titled Bike Advocacy and Infrastructure Successes in San Diego. In a moment, I will introduce our panel, but first a bit about the summit. The Biennial California Bicycle Summit is the state's must-attend bicycle event and one of the nation's leading bicycle-related conferences. Our summit theme for 2024 is Crossroads, because our state and our society stand at across roads. This is a crucial time for the active transportation movement. As the pace of climate change accelerates and damage from severe weather accumulates, our window to decarbonize our transportation system shrinks. The summit will feature several dynamic days of informative and transformational keynotes, plenaries, and workshops as well as exciting and interesting bike rides around San Diego and many opportunities to learn, network, and exchange ideas. The summit is an opportunity to learn from people advancing promising policies, planning great infrastructure, and building more sustainable, equitable, and multimodal communities throughout California. More information on registration and a special discount for the summit will be shared at the end of the session. Summit speakers will share knowledge from throughout the state that participants can take home and apply in their communities. We have unique opportunity to learn from the dedicated people and organizations working throughout the San Diego region and even see some of the great work in action in April. To give a preview of some of the things going on in the region and share some strategies for success in both policy and infrastructure, we have a great panel today to share some of what they are doing. I'd now like to introduce you to today's panel. Chloe Lowers, the Executive Director of the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, a nonprofit organization with a 35-year history of successful advocacy for education about and celebration of life by bike. Josh Clark is a Senior Regional Planner at the San Diego Association of Governments and serves on the California Walk Bike Technical Advisory Committee to Caltrans. Jeremy Bloom is the COO at Circulate San Diego working to create excellent mobility choices and vibrant, healthy neighborhoods. Everett Hauser is the Bicycle Program Manager with the City of San Diego Transportation Department. Anar Salayev is the Executive Director at Bike SD. Bike SD is a grassroots advocacy organization that is working to make the City of San Diego a more bikeable and livable city for all. Last but not least, Randy Torres Van Vleck is the CEO of Takayo Engagement, the co-organizer of Los Crisadoras and an appointed member of the Caltrans CalSTA, California Transportation Commission Interagency Equity Advisory Committee. I think that wins for the number of acronyms and words today. Yeah, like Kendra said, we're an organization that's been around for many years since 1987. And this is a little picture of our small but mighty team and our values down at the bottom. And our main focus is advocating for and protecting the rights of all people on bicycles and promoting bicycling as a form of transportation and recreation. Next slide, please. So, as Kendra said, we have three main pillars in our organization, advocating, educating, and celebrating life by bike. You can go to the next slide. In terms of education, we've actually had unprecedented demand this year with the e-bike revolution. So, that's been really exciting. In one day, our educator, Mr. Kevin, actually reached 1,000 people through six different classes that he taught in one single day. So, that's incredible. And annually, we reached about 15,000 people. But that's far from the 3.3 million total in our county. So, we really want to build our capacity. And one way that we do that is by collaborating with other organizations that you see on this panel. And this slide just gives an example of one of the things that we recently did together, which was to host a film screening of this street project, which is about the revolution of taking our streets back for people who aren't in cars and how it's happening globally, nationally, and then locally. So, we kind of brought it home with a panel discussion that you see where we discussed how we can apply the inspiration of the film to our local context. And so, anything that we talk about today, just to kind of set the stage, what you'll hear from others, you'll hear about certain projects, but just know that they've been a collaborative effort. And that's one of the things we love about our region and our community and our advocates is that we work really well together. Sometimes we might overlap a bit, but we don't really see it as a redundancy, but rather a way to reach more people. And also that sometimes people need to hear it from more than one voice or more than one organization to kind of really get that message across. So, and besides collaborating with the other mobility orgs, we also collaborate with climate orgs because reaching our climate action goals is really supported by changes in mobility mode. And then we partner with trauma prevention groups at different hospitals, because of course, through talking about safety and educating folks on how to navigate our streets and communicate with drivers and wear helmets and everything, we can prevent trauma and injuries. Yeah, so if you go to the next slide, our advocacy ranges from like really big regional things to really small prototypes. And here's an example of something that we're about to prototype in the region of Claremont. It's in San Diego, the city of San Diego. It's a great neighborhood. It has some challenges that are endemic to our region, which are that we have a lot of canyons. They're not really shown here on this map, but you can just imagine that we have Mesa's and then canyons. And so sometimes that can be challenging in navigating and getting like connected networks of bikeways when you have those topographic changes. So it also has 29 schools and a lot of community parks. And so what we're looking at is actually collaboration with Bike SD and Bike Claremont, which is a neighborhood org to prototype neighborhood greenways. And here's just one example. It's a 2.5 mile stretch. It goes the total east-west corridor. And as you can see, biking is only three minutes longer than if you were to drive and if you add in like parking and other things, it's biking is probably the most efficient way to get across this neighborhood. So this is something that I presented to the Mobility Board with a Bike SD member, Jason Vance. And just an example of how we're working grassroots ground up as well as with our regional partners to kind of do top down like things like complete streets. So we're, if we can get this through in a kind of more quick build, quick to deploy mode and demonstrate how effective it can be in terms of getting cars off the road, reducing emissions, increasing safety, and just making life more enjoyable for our neighbors, then we can have a more broad policy for neighborhood greenways across our region. Next slide, please. Oh, no, that's actually circulate. So you can go back. Just a couple other... It seems like we're missing a slide. Anyway, maybe I added it too late. Is there a slide before this one? Like slide? No. Okay. I guess we have a different version of the slideshow. But anyway, what I'll just mention is that as a small but mighty team, we have to rely on our city governments for the 18 different cities that we work with across the county. So one way that we partner with those cities is by supporting them when they come out with their like active transportation plans or their mobility master plans. And we review them and guide them. And we've actually been in conversation also with other cities like Vista to update their sort of enforcement codes regarding cycling. So we serve as a resource to these cities across the region. Of course, we don't have the staffing to be consultants on everything, but we do our best to support them and then give public comment at city council meetings and just really encourage them for all the active transportation planning and mobility master planning that's going on in the region. You may have heard that there was a state of emergency in Carlsbad and Encinitas that was declared in terms of roadway safety. So we've also partnered with them to really amp up the classes that we offer for city cycling as parents and youth are really concerned about the state of affairs. And so, yeah, we're really happy to be here on the panel. Thank you for inviting us and I'll turn it over to our next panelist. Thanks Chloe. I believe Josh is next and I am going to transfer screen share. I'm in the engineering and construction division here at Sandeag. Sandeag is the regional MPO and council of governments and long-range transportation planning agency in the San Diego region. So excited that you're all going to be here in San Diego. I'm going to show you some examples of recently completed projects and just want to say that I'm really pleased to be on this panel with everyone. And thanks Cal Bike for coordinating it. Everyone on this panel and their organizations had a big role in the projects that I'm about to outline and share results from. Cool. So I want to talk about the projects themselves, but I should start with the program largely. Ten years ago, Sandeag Sportive Directors made a commitment to building 77 miles of bikeways in the region to fill out the regional network and they committed $200 million to that and that's been vital to always point back to say that there is a commitment to plan, design, implement these bikeway projects with that funding committed and obviously the cost of these projects have gone up. However, we've been very competitive with grant funding because these are innovative projects for all these vulnerabilities and so we've got a one-to-one leverage for using that funding that was committed for these projects to go out and get grant dollars. And you can see here the chart shows the projects, the mileage for each phase that they're in currently. So this equates to approximately 11 projects that are in final design currently, four projects that are under construction right now, and then 11 projects that have been completed. So I'm going to talk about those completed projects, some of them, and talk about the evaluation results because I think this is something that hopefully you can all share to say that there are some major impacts that these projects can bring to travel on these corridors and to these communities. So we'll start here with the Fourth and Fifth Avenue bikeways. I trust that when you all are here for the summit, you very likely could make your way onto this bikeway. This connects downtown to uptown and is 4.5 miles and is a couplet, separated bikeways heading in both directions on these two one-way streets. So it's been exciting to compare the 2017 precondition, which was a class two buffered bike lane thanks to a road diet from the city of San Diego. So that 2017 condition compared to the 2022 condition, we still had a 54% increase in bike ridership on this corridor. This is the only corridor that I'm going to provide results from where pedestrian travel decreased, and I'll note that that's because this is connecting downtown. So I don't quite think that the downtown business activity district had fully returned to kind of full activation post-pandemic in 2022. So that is a big reason why the drag for pedestrian volumes is lower. I wouldn't say that it's the result of the project, but I do need to point that out. So exciting to see that motor vehicle travel on this corridor decreased as well from the precondition and that the speeds decreased. So let's move over to another part of the network. And these are the east-west bikeways, the Georgia Mead bikeway here on the north segment and the Landis bikeway itself. These connect North Park City Heights, University Heights and Normal Heights. Just outside this map is the 4th and 5th Avenue bikeway. So there's obviously an important network element here. And so we look at these two projects specifically, which are effectively kind of like what Chloe mentioned neighborhood greenway or bike boulevard projects. The bike ridership increased on these corridors once we implemented this all-ages and abilities bikeways. Pedestrian travel also increased and you can see the motor vehicle travel decreased. There's a ton of roundabouts, I think like 18 totals between these two projects or neighborhood traffic circles and a lot of really good innovative bikeway design elements like these pop-outs here. It's great to see that that contributed to a decrease in motor vehicle speeds too. So let's go look at the Landis bikeway. Here's an example of one of those neighborhood traffic circles and some other cool innovative bikeway design elements like this Contraflow raised bikeway that I adore riding on. So here we are looking at a segment of the Landis bikeway. And I removed one count location here because it was a major outlier in 2017. There was a special event. So yeah, the pitfalls of data collection without liars. But anyways, removing that one for a good pre and post shows the same thing, right? Increases in bike, pet travel. And I wanted to point out specifically that we measure the segment speed for like the free flowing traffic conditions similar to the way that a speed survey is done for setting posted speed limits. And it's so great to see that on a street segment here, the 85th percentile speed reduces down five miles per hour. And so when the city of San Diego goes out and does their speed survey and posts the speed limit here, they can start with a 20 mile per hour speed limit, which I think is a great outcome that these physical interventions resulted in. Okay, so I want to talk about the coastal rail trails Rose Creek Bikeway. This project was built with the mid-coast trolley extension. The blue line trolley extends from downtown San Diego to UTC in the UC San Diego area. So you can see here that the trolley tracks and the low sand tracks are in the image here. And then this class one bikeway was built parallel to Santa Fe Street as a good kind of rails and trails project. So same thing, right? Bike ridership increases, pet travel increases shouldn't be surprising. There was no sidewalk here before. So that's exciting to see and the motor vehicle travel decreases on the segment. And so I want to talk about the riders revealed preference at this screen line location of the Rose Creek Bikeway, because I think it was very telling to compare the precondition with the post. So the precondition, this is a class three bike route, right? On Santa Fe Street, where you can see the Cheros, the shared lane markings. And in the precondition in 2017 on a typical Wednesday, we see the 24 hour volumes are approximately 300 total. Here they are shown 24 hours for north south biking. Now let's look at the same period post project in 2022. There's a 75% increase in bike volumes on the corridor and 95% of those users are choosing the all ages and abilities Rose Creek Bikeway instead of the Cheryl marked Santa Fe Street, which I think was very telling. So all of these, these locations we're tracking along with the mileage. So it's been exciting to see as we build out more all ages and abilities bikeway facilities throughout the San Diego region, what this, what effect this has on ridership. So I saw that Quinton from ego counter was on the, on the call. So shout out ego counter. These are all counts that we get from automated bike counters in on eight different corridors. And you can see we've been tracking them for a long time. And I want to point out and highlight that the three corridors. So obviously we see the bike boom in 2020, but from 2021, it doesn't revert back to the 2019 pre pandemic volumes. It's, it's still increasing between 2021 and 2022. And I want to point out three corridors that had the biggest increases. They were all all ages and abilities bikeways. So as I mentioned the fourth and fifth avenue bikeway, University Avenue and Hillcrest, it will be upgraded still, but it's a, it connects to all age and abilities protected bikeways. So there's a network effect there where that where we're seeing increases in connecting segments of the network. And then the, the, the corridor with the highest ridership, I think we'll talk about other folks we'll talk about during this webinar. And I think certainly merits a deep dive at the bike summit is the 30th stream project. And on that corridor, there is a 67% increase in people biking after a full year of it being completed in 2022. And before it was just a share and signed class three bike route. So I think that's remarkable. And certainly, yeah, merits a full hour of discussion. So I just want to take a step back and say that I talked a lot about the capital projects that our colleagues here at sand egg have been implementing. And they're remarkable, but we're always working on the overall program and, and the process of planning, designing and implementing these projects is iterative. So we're excited that we're using what we've learned to continue to refine the, the regional bike network with our colleagues in the plain division here at sand egg with an ongoing in progress update to the San Diego regional bike network through a regional active transportation plan. We're also working on a vision zero action plan. I expect either or both of these things have probably be presented on at the summit or we can talk about them while you're here. And then lastly, I got to say that our, it's so critical to have communications and outreach team that has been working on this whole process. So they've worked routinely to get feedback and provide information to anyone interested. And critically, they manage a construction hotline here at sand egg. So as you saw, some of those bikeway projects are, are in people's front yards and they unfortunately don't hear about them until they start going into construction, for example. So I'll be, I just want to say how important it is to have staff here that are mindful of those impacts and, and failing any knowledge vacuums and providing people with all the information they need and, and reasons why we're doing this. And it was exciting to share the results from these projects. So thanks everyone. I really appreciate the opportunity to share. That's it for me. Great. Thanks, Josh. I will share my screen again. I believe that Jeremy has some slides. Thanks Kendra. And yeah, echoing Josh. Thanks Cal bike for organizing this webinar and welcome everyone to San Diego in the spring. We can't wait to show you our, our cold bike lanes. As Kendra mentioned, circulates work to create excellent mobility choices and vibrant healthy neighborhoods. And we do that through the intersection of kind of our three core pillars. Housing, sustainable growth, safe streets, and public transit advocacy. And we really do that through a number of different community engagement and advocacy advocacy work. I thought I would touch a little bit on kind of our, our approach to policy and advocacy and then talk a little bit about our education work as well. So at Circulate, we follow a proven advocacy model to make change. And our formula is really simple. We identify a problem, recommend a well researched solution, work with the media to remind the public and over and over again of who is the decision maker that's responsible for solving that problem. And then once it's resolved, we do a lot of public credit to credit the decision makers for, you know, taking action and doing the right thing. And so one of those advocacy areas that we worked on since 2015 is our Vision Zero. We did a lot of work to get the city of San Diego to commit to a Vision Zero commitment. And so we did that in 2015. First, we identified, we threw a report, our hope for Vision Zero. We identified it, identified 15 intersections, we called them the fatal 15, to identify to the city of San Diego as areas and intersections that contributed to the most crashes and pedestrian loss of life. And so we did that. We identified those 15, those fatal 15 and really hammered the mayor's office at the time to implement corrections. And over the course of a number of years, the city not only invested in those 15 intersections, but actually that's the top 100. So we're actually going back to that model again. Now in this post-pandemic world, we circulate is actively working to release a brand new report in 2024 called Hope for Vision Zero 2024 to use some of the new data that's out there from the pandemic and post-pandemic world to identify again the 15 most dangerous intersections and then hold the city accountable not only that, but we have three kind of big pushes that we're going to be doing around Vision Zero next year. So that's kind of our Vision Zero work and our advocacy work. Another kind of advocacy area that we took on last year, and this is kind of the intersection of public transit, housing and safe streets in Vision Zero, but we worked with the city to have them pass a sustainable development area to invest in communities, making them more walkable, more dense by changing the land codes around transit areas and making instead of a 30 half mile walkshed, one mile walkshed for transit oriented development at the city level to hopefully implement better biking, walking, infrastructure in those areas as new housing goes in. And then this last piece, just with the photos that I have here, circulate not only does that advocacy work on our policy side, we also have circulate planning, which is our fee for service planning work. We do a ton of work with the Office of Traffic Safety here in San Diego, partnering with a number of jurisdictions in the city of San Diego, the county as well as Chula Vista Police Department and the San Diego Police Department to implement education and community outreach. So we do a lot of transit field trips. We do walking field trips where we work with communities to identify areas that need to have better infrastructure investments. And then we do community outreach around biking safety. And we do a lot of work with bike rodeos with the schools. And so we have some of the photos here. And then we also release reports around this as well. So on our website, we are State Bike Field Guide, our State Versus Schools Toolkit. We also did a cool demonstration project at UCSD around their own bike lane. I believe I'll pass it over to Anar with Bike FD. Cool. Thanks, Jeremy. And thanks to Cal Bike for hosting us and also for bringing the summit to beautiful San Diego, America's finest city or so we think. My name's Anar Salayev. I'm the Executive Director of Bike SD and I'm going to go over few cool things that we're up to. I'll also share my screen. So one second. All right. So Bike SD or Bike San Diego is a grassroots volunteer driven 501c3 non-profit advocacy organization. That's a lot of words there. But we do a lot of work in San Diego. We have a ton of volunteers, some that are working with Chloe, others that work with Circulate, and others that do small things in their own neighborhoods, all sort of under the Bike SD umbrella. And our general mission is to make San Diego a more bikeable and livable city for all. And so while our name is Bike San Diego, traditionally we have focused primarily on the central core of San Diego, which is sandwiched between the eight in the north and the Coronado Bridge down south and then the airport in the west and then sort of the eastern border or boundary of city heights in the east. This is mostly due to bandwidth and our base being primarily located in the central core of San Diego. But also we feel that the central core being some of the oldest neighborhoods in the city are lower hanging and are ripe for change, not only in regards to bike infrastructure, but pedestrian and transit improvements. Just due to the sheer amount of density, the narrower corridors, the amount of small businesses and parks and schools that are scattered throughout, we think this is a really good place for the city and the community-based organizations to make real material change that we can experiment with and then expand out to other parts of the city as we see fit. So for bandwidth reasons and maybe philosophical reasons, we focus primarily on central San Diego. We have been successful in more recent years in places like University City, specifically around UC San Diego and the surrounding neighborhood there, as well as in the sort of Bird Rock Pacific Beach, Ocean Beach, Mission Bay coastal communities on the western coast of San Diego. So we're trying to expand our reach there. So if anyone on this call lives in any of these neighborhoods or any other neighborhoods and they would like to be involved with our work or to expand our work into your respective community, please reach out to me. Moving on, I'm going to touch on three core pillars or maybe categories of work that we have and will continue to focus on over the next few years. So first is our shifting focus from project work to policy work. So traditionally, we've been very involved with pushing specific corridor improvements think 30th Street Park Boulevard and some of the other pathways that Chloe and Josh had touched on. And that's a lot of grind work where you need to get involved early on for every single street or block or corridor that is planned for work. And so now we are looking to shift our attention instead to policy and legislative work to make lasting change that trickles down to multiple individual projects at once rather than going with the piecemeal approach that we've done historically. So some campaigns in line with this shift of focus now are we're working with the city and council on their complete streets policy, as well as their updated streets design manual, which we hope to get our hands on in the next couple of weeks. On top of that, we've also been working collaboratively with some folks here on the fiscal year 25 budget. So stay tuned for more news around that. And then also, now we're pushing for AB 43 and AB 413 implementation in the city of San Diego. For those who might not be familiar, AB 43 allows municipalities to reduce speed limits by five miles an hour on specified corridors. And then 413 is a daylighting bill, which allows municipalities to stop people from parking 25 feet from a marked intersection. And so those are our next two big sort of legislative campaigns that we'll be working with the city and council on over the next few quarters. Oh, that animation didn't work how I wanted to. There we go. Our next pillar here is our bikes mean business. So oftentimes some of the loudest opposition to new bike infrastructure comes from small business owners. And we get it. Change is difficult and losing parking is sometimes perceived as an end to their livelihood. So what we've been doing is partnering with local business improvement districts and associations as well as directly with local businesses to promote their offerings and discount and provide discounts to customers that are arriving by bike by foot by transit. And so currently we're working with places like North Park Main Street, the alcohol Boulevard Business Improvement Association and South Park Business Group to develop a bikes mean business coupon book, which we hope will encourage more people to frequent their favorite local businesses by bike and be incentivized to do so. And finally, community engagement. So in the battle for safer streets, we find that most San Diegans and local leaders aren't even really aware of the problem. They're just they're not vehemently opposed one way or another, nor are they dead set on the autocentric realism in which we live today. They really just want to live and move freely without fear of death, getting from point A to point B. So what we're trying to do is engage these individuals particularly through group rides, workshops, hackathons, seminars and tabling events to make them aware of the dangers of our roads and how they can be made better. We essentially want to convey to them that the way our roads built aren't a given. They have been changed and they can be changed for the better. And so this involves a lot of shuttle diplomacy, which requires that we have an open ear, mind and heart when speaking to all stakeholders involved in doing this work. And if you'd like to be involved with any of our campaigns, programs, outreach or have any ideas for new campaigns, visit us at bikest.org or find us on any social media channel. We're at bikest. Thanks, y'all. Thanks, Anar. And I believe, Everett, you'll be sharing your slides as well. Yes, looking good. Good. All right. Thank you. Thanks, Cal Bike. Thanks to all the panel members. Good to see everyone out there on the zoom lands. I'm Everett Hauser, a program manager with the city's transportation department. And let's get started. So again, welcome to San Diego when you do arrive next spring. This was the scene back in 2015. Met at the Wyndham down by the bay downtown San Diego. And prior to that downtown did not have any dedicated bike facilities. It was tragic. But people will stay out there because they ride when they need to get where they're going. But when you arrive, you'll see our new downtown mobility plan approved cycle tracks. This is Pacific Highway. You can see hotels still in the background. Removed a travel lane created a buffer. And so my presentation today is really light. Just kind of going to highlight a few things you might see since last time or if you're locally, you'll pick on other things. So like Josh mentioned, the region has done a good job counting and recently we installed some eco counters as well. So you can see that way over here with the display unit. So that displays the ridership on Pacific Highway. Here's this guy riding over the loops. And so we get a good sense of how these facilities make improvements in ridership trends. So if we're downtown in the spring, you can check out Pacific Highway. And downtown is really our city's core. Big deal to build out in that network with so many destinations and opportunities. And then so we continue up onto Balbo Park into the Central Mesa area. This is a recent project bundled with a pipeline. Again, as mentioned, a lot of advocacy work by the different organizations to really help push this, push the museum organizations along, all the groups in Balbo Park. Everyone that's concerned about any changes in Balbo Park. So big deal to get this one through. But it brought in these bike lanes, some bus lanes, and you can check that out here as well. As mentioned, this is 33 in North Park. And another counter really to demonstrate the impact of that program. And it's really bringing a lot of good connections for all the families that live in North Park. Finally creating that option for all ages and abilities people to get around. And so we're very excited about that project and its success in the city. And hope you check that out. I've got some new big infrastructure pieces that since you were last year too. This is the West Mission Bay Bridge. Newly rebuilt sections under for the San Diego River Trail and up top on this bridge deck on each direction are big 10-foot wide lanes connecting for bikes and peds across the San Diego River. So this is out towards the West. Check this out when you're here. Just a little bit of a highlight. Again, moving farther out where we go with implementing our community plans. This is a feature on Kearney Mesa. All the little dash lines are projects that we've bundled with either overlay projects or again group jobs. Those are pipelines or a slurry program and really connecting the planned separated network that these community plans envision. So really expanding our network mileage connecting to those regional facilities. So there's a lot of new facilities and mileage out there that the region has been building and we're connecting into. So again, here's the Kearney Mesa area. And that right in the middle the North South Road is called Convoy Street and that is the hub of the Convoy District or Pan-Asian Business District. So tons of restaurants, a lot of cultural activity in this area. And to go along with that community plan update it's going to be receiving a lot more development. So right now it's a lot of industrial land, strip malls, big box stores. Here's Convoy Street and it's new bike lanes that'll be ready to go. Springtime when you all arrive. If you ride up to Kearney Mesa. And then sort of like is alluded to on the cover, you know, new development, helping fill in that housing need that we all have in the state. But providing that in a community that has a lot of destinations already that people will be able to walk and bike to. And so this is where that bike lane is going to be really critical. So that way people can make those short trips within their community without having to drive. And so you can see that building under construction there. And then just to wrap up again, some folks have already alluded to looking ahead in San Diego. We're updating our street design manual. We also are updating our bicycle master plan. And so we're working with Sandeg to craft the regional and our local bike master plan. And so we'll encourage everyone to participate in those updates and opportunities that go along. And that concludes my thing and I could take any questions at the end. But thanks again for coming to San Diego and we'll see you then. Great. Thanks so much, Everett. And I will go back to showing my slides for Randy, who will be presenting next. Good afternoon, everyone. Good to see you all. My name is Randy Torres Van Vleck and I'm a community planner working in San Diego. And I'm really excited for the return of the California Bike Summit. It's one of my favorite summits. Been to mostly all of them except for the most recent one in Oakland. And in 2015, I was on the steering committee for the summit and a group that I co-founded and organized with called Los Cruzadores. We organized an event as part of the California Bike Summit in affiliation with it to basically promote the summit. It's called BC California. And so our group Los Cruzadores, we organized trans border bike rides from San Diego to Tijuana to really celebrate and highlight the unique beauty of our San Diego Tijuana mega region. As Kendra mentioned, the theme this coming year is Crossroads. And our community is a border community. Folks cross the border every day to, you know, to live and work and play. And so that's a big part of our identity as a region. And I grew up in that the border community grew up in Southwest Chula Vista, closer to downtown Tijuana than to downtown, no, closer to downtown Tijuana than to downtown San Diego. And so Los Cruzadores, we organized trans border rides. And in 2015, we led this event that was the idea was to connect the Californians together. And so we worked with advocates from Tijuana, from Baja, from Mexico, and the city of Tijuana to organize an event that did that, that rode from one California to the other. And it was called BC California. And it was a fantastic event. We're in talks with Cal Bike about potentially doing another Los Cruzadores ride next year. It's part of the summit. I'll stay tuned on that. You can see the photo on the right there. Those are my tocaios. Hugo, Randy Salgado, and Randy Armenta, we'll actually name Randy in Mexican Spanish. Some of your same name is your tocaio. So Randy Armenta and I decided that, you know, we're really inspired by the work that we've been doing together with the flyer design and the organizing that we decided to start our own LLC, doing community planning, community engagement. So it's called tocaio engagement. And so that's kind of my new, my new venture. Next slide, please. Before that, I worked for the City Heights Community Development Corporation for 13 years, amazing organization founded 1981, that that has done a lot of great community organizing, policy work, affordable housing, production, transportation justice organizing, and infrastructure advocacy. In fact, they led the way for the first freeway cover park in the entire state of California on the SR15. But those a lot of stress and organizing and work that took place to get that. And unfortunately, it took, you know, allowing another freeway to be built through City Heights to allow that. And that was the 15 freeway, which is pictured depicted there on the left in 1981. That was kind of the sentiment when residents were working in that planning process. They felt that the freeway, another freeway in a black and brown community, another freeway in a low income community that would divide City Heights, just as it had done sadly in Southeast San Diego and in Body O'Logan and other communities throughout the country. And so City Heights CDC refused to allow that to happen again. And so they worked on their own community plan to underground the freeway and get freeway cover park on top and transit down the middle, housing and transit oriented development. Before that turn even existed, they're advocating for these amenities. And there was a lot of stress and work that took place over the years. The eight blocks of cover was watered down to five blocks and then to three and then to one. But still a lot of successes that were created from that. 2008, Sandag and Caltrans decided to change their mind after the freeway opened, seven years of allowing the freeway to open with no transit amenity built at all. In terms of the centerline stations, that is, they decided that they wanted to use the space dedicated to inline transit to use that space for another car pulley. So more cars being pumped through City Heights at the detriment of the impacted community. And so City Heights CDC and leaders refused to allow that to happen. And so in 2008, they organized to save the centerline station. So the Oregon State was was effective in doing that and that momentum that we created through the organizing carried on to other movements. If you could go to the next slide, please, Kendra. That'd be great. That movement work carries on and City Heights in my opinion today is really the center of the transportation justice movement in the region. I'm proud to be a resident of City Heights myself. And we carry that momentum forward to other campaigns, like the Orange Avenue Bikeway, which we kind of rebranded to call the Orange Avenue Family Bikeway, because it connected about eight different schools in City Heights from high schools to elementary schools, daycares. It's really the street that's going to connect families and parks and schools and to get the support for it. We really wanted to center families in that. And it's, you know, we've been part of the regional bikeway on planning since 2000, since 2009, 2012, and that funding with that 200 million was committed. And Josh mentioned, we're there advocating for it. We've been at the table ever since. The projects are great. They're most of the projects have traffic diversers as part of the network. Fortunately, most of those were removed. But the one that's remained is an Orange Avenue. And that's because of the strong organizing, the community support we're able to build. So the first regional traffic diverger network along the active transportation corridor will be in City Heights along the Orange Avenue Family Bikeway. And that's going to construction, I believe next year. So really excited on that. And, you know, we have really kind of a, you know, we recognize that we're trying to create a network, right? And so it's not just this project or that project, but we need to create a network for all of our communities, starting with our environmental justice communities who've been left behind. And so we've got a lot of good projects coming forward. But we also recognize that our residents want to be able to go to North Park as well. And they want to be able to go to Kensington and downtown and to UCSD and SDSU. So looking at those connectivity enhancements are important. So the 30th Street Bikeway was an opportunity to connect a lot of those Sandag infrastructure projects that were mentioned. And when that opened in 2021, that was huge. And we were happy to support that even though it wasn't in City Heights, but we saw the connection to improving the West East corridors. Final slide. As I mentioned, Tokayo Engagement, we are in LLC and we're partnering now with Urban Collaborative Project. And that's my main focus now is working with them to help kind of design housing program for them and build upon their transportation program. Just last night we walked 47th Street and Imperial Avenue in Southeast San Diego. Fortunately, Southeast has been on the back burner of regional prioritization in terms of investments, home to three Vision Zero corridors, Euclid Market and Imperial, minimum width sidewalks throughout most of the community, not a lot of tree canopies and regional investments. So we're trying to change that together. We're working on a letter that's going to be coming out soon. And the photo there on the right is from the All the Way to the Bay bike ride that City Heights CDC led with the bike coalition and stopped last year at Southeast San Diego's Transportation Expo. So the work goes on. I know that we're going to be highlighting a lot of successes, but we still have a lot of needs as well. And so in this time we hope to dig more deeply into those and work with you to brainstorm troubleshoot how we can get these projects done more quickly. So I appreciate you all. Great. Thanks, Randy. And thank you to all of our panelists for sharing your work with us. I really appreciated hearing what each of your organizations and agencies are doing in collaboration. 30th Street is a great example and just all of the other work you're doing. So thank you so much for sharing today. And if anyone wants more information on any of the organizations that joined us today, any of their work, websites are on the screen. So we have a few minutes left for questions. There have been a few coming in that I will share with panel. I'll share in a moment. But yeah, definitely appreciate that many of you put in questions during the talk. And some of these questions have already been answered. So very excited to see the conversation there. And I will also while those are coming in, share the information on registering for our summit. So to register for the summit, you can go to CalBike's website, CalBike.org. The direct link is there. And in the chat as well, we have early bird registration going on right now until December 15th. And for folks attending today, we have a special code on the screen, San Diego Success, all one word, lowercase, to have an additional discount back to our 2022 summit, early bird pricing. Given that we unfortunately, I unfortunately, Miacopa, established this webinar today with a cap using the wrong part of Zoom. And a few folks were not able to get in. We will extend that code to allow the folks to access the recording through Friday and use that code and it will expire at the end of the day, midnight on Friday. We're also open for proposals right now. Link should be up on our website for that request for proposals. And it'll be in the chat as well to propose sessions for the summit. So on to questions. The first one that came in from Carter was for Josh. Can we ask why 2014 was so high in ridership? Yeah, that's a good question. I think ridership coming off of the recession was high for a sustained period. And I think started to dip around 2016-17. So I do think there was a strong surge. We started counting in fall of 2012 primarily with these eco counters at the regional bike network locations. And I think we have to recall 10, 12 years ago that there were a ton of people in a very different economy that were depending on bike travel, I think, to save money. And I shouldn't extrapolate too much. But I think that's a big factor. Great. Thanks, Josh. And another question. Anar, you sent this in. I think it was during Jeremy's talk. So I'm not sure if it was to Jeremy or someone else. But any updates on the dangerous intersection improvements that were supposed to be funded in the fiscal year 24 budget? I know, sir, we're updating our Co-Privileged Zero Report next year as a recap of the fatal 15 and we'll be releasing that data next year. And actually, I could probably speak to that one too. I'm trying to find if we've put it out there on our public budget website. It was $1.5 million for intersections. They all got allocated, but I'll find that information and share that with the group. But it was a mix of signals, roundabouts, and a couple hawks that needed some additional funding. Great. Another question just came in from Felipe. Have your coalition worked with the San Diego Community College system to help aid students who might not have the easiest access in getting to school or perhaps promoting bicycling as a form of transportation? I'm assuming that's to any of our non-profit folks here today on the panel. Yeah, I was actually going to respond in thread. But back in, I don't even remember when, I want to say Q1 of this year, there was a student that got hit by a car somewhere near San Diego City College. And the entire campus community rally to put out an op-ed and publish some article on how unsafe it is to be a pedestrian or bicyclist coming to City College. And then they had a whole piece written. And then I think somebody in charge stepped down and then they completely pivoted their media work. So until that point, we were working with City College specifically around Park Boulevard advocacy work. But once that shift took place, the original point of contact we had became unresponsive. And since then, we haven't really been in touch with them. But if anyone here has a contact at San Diego City College, that would be open to working together on more advocacy work around their campus or elsewhere would love to reach out to them. Yeah, I actually know that student. His I think that you're referring to his name is Alex. And he has given public comment at the mobility board and other places. And I'm in contact with him. So happy to work with you on that, Anar. He's a very outspoken advocate. I think he's actually been hit more than once. And he uses his bike to get around everywhere. So yeah, I think that's some low hanging fruit that we could definitely work together on. Great. And I know, let's see, I haven't seen any additional questions. So I'll go back to one that was answered to share with folks who might not be reading the chat there. Someone asked about funding for the projects that Sandag Sandag was mentioning that Josh was mentioning and and how that funding is distributed. And so scrolling again back to where that was answered. Here we go. So I know that lost the inline is confusing me here. Sorry, folks. I have to acknowledge that Stefan on this call as well had a really good response down below. And the inline I think should should address that specifically that this was a trend. This is a sales tax amendment that was passed by voters in 2004. And that is the that is the like the core funding source. And then the pie chart should be helpful to see that that cities are getting a lot of that funding as well from the same sales tax measure. But we have a specific portion called out specifically for this program, the bicycle pedestrian neighborhood safety program. And so that is a as a guaranteed percentage of money from the sales tax that we are getting annually and can use it for that that matching source. And that's a great a great point that funding is is critical to all of our work throughout the state and every community and statewide and judging from a few responses we've already received to the request for session proposals. I know that funding is a topic folks would like to see talked about. So definitely encourage encourage conversations about that for the summit. Let's see a new. Are there any other questions from folks I missed any please chime in or raise your hand we don't have too many people trying to speak over each other so while not seeing any again really appreciate everyone's participation today. We are very excited to get everyone together in April and San Diego and learn more both from the great folks on this call as well as folks throughout the state. Look forward. Look look out for communication from Cal bike on a few additional would be some advanced sessions coming at the start of the year. And please you know feel free to connect and propose sessions and we look forward to seeing you all in San Diego in April. Thank you so much.