San Diego paying $1.75M to man hurt in Carmel Valley bicycling crash

[TexasTowelie]

SAN DIEGO — San Diego is paying $1.75 million to a veteran bicyclist who suffered head, shoulder and leg injuries five years ago when tree-damaged pavement in a Carmel Valley bike lane launched him airborne.

The settlement with Michael Cizauskas is among the largest by San Diego for a bicycle crash. In 2017, the city paid $4.85 million to a Del Cerro resident who tore spinal cord ligaments after being launched by a buckled sidewalk.

The payout comes with public scrutiny of bicycle safety on the rise in the wake of multiple recent cycling fatalities on San Diego’s roads.

Because the city’s climate action plan calls for more people to commute by bike and on foot, San Diego officials have prioritized adding more bike lanes across the city in recent years.

Read more: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2021-08-13/san-diego-paying-out-1-75m-to-man-hurt-in-carmel-valley-bicycling-crash

[FreeState]

1. The city has made lots of errors with bike paths

They just made North Park a disaster for parking. There is a very nice bike path on Utah (patrelel to 30th) but for some reason they needed more one block over. The one on Utah is not used much. Would have made much more sense to use the money to promote the path one block over than to take away parking in one of the businesses areas of North Park.

I have a neighbor that had to be life fighted for a bike accident in Carmel Valley three years ago. Lots of accidents here.