Tag: Sam Ollinger

  • Public Weighs in on Bus Passes, Bike Lanes at Budget Hearing

    City Council President Todd Gloria looks out at the people filling the San Diego City Council chambers for the public hearing on the Fiscal Year 2014 budget. | Photo Credit: Todd Gloria, Twitter By Claire Trageser More than 300 people turned out Wednesday night to share their thoughts on Mayor Bob Filner’s proposed budget for…

  • Filner Gearing Up for More Bikes with CicloSDias Event

    Los Angeles hosts community bike rides modeled after Bogoto, Colombia’s ciclovia events. Now San Diego is following their lead. | Photo Courtesy of Flickr By Lisa Halverstadt Mayor Bob Filner wants to make San Diego the bicycling capital of the nation but he admits he’ll need to sell the idea to most residents first. That’s…

  • Creating Bike Safety in a City Built for Cars

    The death of a cyclist on Montezuma Road near San Diego State last month has rallied San Diego’s bike community to protest the dangers of taking to the road. KPBS reporter Tom Fudge tells us what it would take to make our streets safe for bikes, even though they were built for cars. Five years…

  • Tweet City Heights: Criminal Charges Unlikely for Drivers Who Hit Cyclists

    By Megan Burks Drivers Who Hit Cyclists Unlikely to Face Criminal Charges City Heights resident and bike blogger Sam Ollinger has been tracking the cases of cyclists who were killed or injured by cars in recent months. She wants to know whether the drivers face criminal charges. In San Diego, it seems they rarely do,…

  • The City’s Emerging Bike Power

    Sam Ollinger is a leader in a group that seems to be growing in influence around San Diego — the bike lobby. She’s managed to accumulate her clout the new-fashioned way. She hadn’t donated a dime, but she pestered the mayoral candidates on Twitter to come up with plans for making San Diego more bike-friendly,…