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Please e-mail comments, corrections and additions to the webmaster at pje@efgh.com.
Mild weather all year round. For general information about the San Diego area, you may want to check the following websites:
The photograph above makes a good desktop background for your computer screen, especially in its original form with more green and blue space. You can download the appropriate size: If your screen size is not included, download the original and use some photo editing software to make an image of the correct size by cropping it and/or shrinking it, or ask the webmaster for a particular size. If you set the wrong size as a desktop background, the image quality may suffer when the operating system resizes it. Bicycle News and NotesThe extension of the Ocean Beach Bike Path to Hotel Circle Place has been completed and opened. A new section of the Bayshore Bikeway has been opened, and the cue sheet and map have been updated. The new David Kreitzer Lake Hodges Bicycle/Pedestrian Bridge over Lake Hodges just west of Interstate opened at 6:00 AM on May 15, which is Bike to Work Day in San Diego County. Tuesday night bicycle racing at the Bicycle velodrome in Balboa Park resumed on April 7. The Pacific Street Bridge over the San Luis Rey River in Oceanside has been opened to cars, bicyclists and pedestrians. Pacific Street, which is a popular bike route, formerly crossed the river on a small causeway which washed out every few years. The connection between Pacific Street and the San Luis Rey River Bike Path, which was disrupted by bridge construction, has been reopened. The South Bay Expressway (the southern extension of Highway 125) has been opened. Bicyclists can ride on the shoulders of the expressway between Birch Rd. and Otay Mesa Rd., crossing the Otay River Valley on the new bridge, which is 3000 feet long and 150 feet high. For more information see www.southbayexpressway.com. Although this is a toll road, there is no toll for bicycles! The 2007 San Diego Region Bike Map is available online. Go to www.ridelink.org and navigate to "Commuter Services" and "Biking". You can also order a printed copy, which is now available. Printed copies may also be available at some bike shops and other locations. The I-15 Freeway has been closed to bicycles between Centre City Parkway and Via Rancho Parkway. A signed detour is inferior to the one most cyclists have been using for years. See Bicycling through South Escondido. The East Ted Williams Bike Path has been reopened. Construction on an interchange between California State Highways 125 and 54 formerly blocked direct bicycle travel between Bonita and La Presa. Quarry Road has been reopened as a bicycle and pedestrian path, and it is usually passible, even though construction signs are still up. The East Escondido Creek Bike Path is closed at and near Ash St. Scanned topographic maps for San Diego, Orange, Imperial, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties are available online at www.efghmaps.com. These are public domain images in GIF format with no restrictions on use. About the WebmasterThis website is brought to you by Philip J. Erdelsky, a resident of San Diego since 1969, and a bicycle rider since about 1974. Visit my home page at http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~pje/. E-mail comments, corrections and additions to me at pje@efgh.com. Photographs of the webmaster. Click on description to display photograph.
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