Sign or safe cycling petition
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Whereas, the Temecula City Council and city staff, while spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on "bicycle trail master plans" have consistently refused to spend money on projects called for in those plans or those projects that make cyclists safer despite funding hundreds of millions of dollars on projects that only benefit motorists,
We, the resident cyclists of Temecula demand:
The city of Temecula immediately spend a minimum of 2 percent (the national average percentage of all travel trips by bicycle) of its annual public works budget on projects that directly have an impact on bicycle safety, including immediately connecting bike lanes citywide, building protected bike paths where needed, and installing and installing signalization that assists and protects cyclists at intersections, and
The city of Temecula immediately hire a contractor to remove debris from bicycle lanes, paths and portions of city streets used by cyclist, as opposed to the current method of simply pushing debris from motorist lanes into bike lanes which is putting cyclists' safety at risk, and
The city of Temecula immediately instruct its Police Department to enforce the state's 3-foot minimum passing distance between motorists and cyclists, aggressively pursue and prosecute motorists who harass, physically threaten or attempt to intimidate cyclists.
