Cycling infrastructure

We need more signatures on our petition to make cycling safer in Temecula. Why should the city invest in cycling infrastructure? It's a safety issue -- Temecula has not worked to install even basic infrastructure -- bike lanes, bike paths, signalization -- to make cycling safer. Other cities are way ahead of us. Look around. But it's also a health issue -- we have a crisis of obesity, and we need to make Temecula a more livable community where more of us can get outside and stay active. Finally, it's really an equity issue -- there are many, many residents who cannot afford to drive, or who are young and not ready to drive. They need to get to work and school. Don't they count? Why are we forcing them to use unsafe streets while spending all of our public money on motorists? Temecula spends literally hundreds of millions of our tax dollars building bigger and more elaborate freeway interchanges. Why not set aside a little bit of money to make sure cyclists can use a bike lane that is not strewn with rocks and other debris? Why not install sensors that give cyclists a green light once in a while at intersections? And why not direct our police officers to hunt down and punish motorists who try to harm cyclists either through inattention or actual malice? Sign the petition at change.org. Forward it to your friends and family. It's time for a healthier Temecula, a safer Temecula.

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SIGN OUR PETITION TO MAKE CYCLING SAFER

Whereas, the city of Temecula has 100,000 residents and statistically more than half of them who are old enough will ride a bicycle this year, and

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.