"SANDAG slow out the gate on $200 million bike lane network"

[Frank Ryan]

Excerpt from interesting UT article on $200M of SANDAG expenditures.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-sandag-bike-lanes-20180124-story.html#nws=true

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An ambitious plan to build 77 miles of bicycle lanes throughout the San Diego region is behind schedule â€" with less than four miles open to the public and more than $60 million spent.

Officials with the San Diego Association of Governments have said that much of that money has been for used for design and community outreach, which accounts for roughly 40 percent of an average project under the program.

The region will see, according to the agency, more than 50 miles of new lanes rolled out in the next three years.

“Regardless of how many miles we have open to date, we have a tremendous amount of work in the planning that we’ve done,” said Charles Stoll, director of land use and transportation planning for SANDAG.

“Very few of these projects are just putting new stripping down,” he added. “These projects tend to be much more capital improvement intensive.”

The $200-million campaign was launched in 2013 to jump-start the construction of a countywide network of lanes â€" some of which are so-called protected lanes designed to separate vehicle traffic from cyclists using physical barriers.