$90 Million for bike lanes!?

Fifth District

This past Friday, common sense went out the window. At a meeting to determine the future of transportation dollars, the SANDAG Board of Directors voted to allocate $90 million for bike lanes in San Diego County.

While I like bikes, most people use them recreationally. Despite less than 1% of San Diegans using bikes as their primary transportation, bike lanes are being built around San Diego County at $5.5 million per mile! Meanwhile, we’ve been told by SANDAG’s staff that there is not enough money to pay for highway/road improvement projects.

These bike lanes are not helping our young families or the businesses that rely on our roads. Families are not using bike lanes to get to work, school or the doctor. Kids are not sitting on the back of their parents' bikes to go to soccer practice. Our priorities should not be building bike lanes for the few at $5.5 million per mile, but improving our highways for the many.

Far too often the downtown bureaucrats overlook the needs of North and East County. We owe it to our young families, our thriving businesses, communities, and the millions of San Diegans that use our highways and roads.