Nimitz would be a great place for a dedicated bike path with a curb to delineate the bike path form the cars. It is very similar to the west end of Friar's Rd. It would be so much safer because the cars are using high speeds on this road.

Has this been fixed? Once I get the ability to safely stop and take a picture of the monstrous new pothole opening on the southwest corner of Nimitz and Chatsworth I will do so. The city needs to tear that section up and start over.

Lynn and Helen: the problem with dedicated (curbed) bike lanes is that theyt are incredibly unusual and limit a cyclist's options too. What if someone needs to turn left? They can't. It is better to either put in a "sharrow" (a painted bike with arrows above it IN traffic lanes, increasingly comon especially where there is not enough room to put in a bike lane OR a bike lane where space permits. Nimitz is a built up and legacy area so there is really no room for a dedicated bike lane in many spots. A sharrow would work best.
(I am a dedicated cyclist who has seen it all AND who has been hit by a car)

There are proposed cycle tracks for Nimitz on the San Diego Bike Plan and this is the best protection for cyclists in this area. The side streets would allow openings for cyclists to turn when necessary. It would be extremely dangerous for cyclists to turn left anywhere on Nimitz (much of Nimitz even has a island barrier in the middle that does not allow one to safely cross unless at an intersection). Intersections would have appropriate openings for cyclists to come into and out of. Nimitz also does not qualify for sharrows. I hope you will reconsider your support for cycle tracks on Nimitz as most cyclists are commuting in one direction or another trying to get from OB/PB area to downtown and vice versa. These three blocks we are requesting are a much used travel path for students going to Dana Middle School and are looking for protection on a fast paced road.

Hello,

Please provide hundred blocks where these potholes exist. Your additional information will allow us to select the correct location in the Geo Browser.

Thank you,
Street Division
619-527-7500

Excellent explanation Nicole!

3700 block of Nimitz between Wabaska and Chatsworth and the Southwest corner of Nimitz and Chatsworth. For the safety of all cyclists and many children commuting to school, we would love a protected curb where possible.
Thank you.

Hello,

A service notification has been created for your request. The service notification number is 150000582754.

Thank you,
Street Division
619-527-7500

Hello,

A service notification has been created for the large holes and cracks on Nimitz. The service notification number is 150000582769. If you are requesting new striping on Nimitz Blvd, please call Traffic Engineering at 619-533-3126. If the street needs to be re-striped we will be happy to create a service notification.

Bike lane needs help for 3 blocks of Nimitz~large holes and cracks, and new striping desperately needed!

Our kids bike here and need to be safe!

Thank you,

Street Division

619-527-7500

Would it be possible to get curb protection?

What do you mean curb protection? Is the curb broken, does it need to be repainted? Your additional information will allow us to select the correct problem code in our data base.

Thank you,
Street Division
619-527-7500

We were thinking of a curb as delineation like the one on Friar's Rd. There is room and the road has auto speeds that warrant the protection. May people walk and ride there but it is just scary and unpedestrian/bike friendly.

Teresa,

Is this the same spot on Nimitz that Lynn reported in issue #151692? It looks like it's in the exact same place. If so, no harm, it would just help to make that clear to the city so they do not think they are tracking two different jobs.

Kudos for reporting it!

Nicole et. al,

"....the Southwest corner of Nimitz and Chatsworth" you mentioned below has been fixed. I put in a separate job (SeeClickFix #167957, City service notification #150000584018) because I didn't realize you'd mentioned it here.

I took some pictures of potholes/cracks/grooves in the bike lane, but looking at this job again i am no longer sure I took pictures in the right area. I took four pictures between Atascaderto Dr and Chatsworth, on the southbound side. Is that the right section? It seems you are are reporting stuff a block further north? If so I will go back and take pho6tos of that, it is on the way to/from work and home so it's no trouble.

Southbound Nimitz Blvd, at corner Atascadero Drive, looking south. Fissures and wrinkled pavement make a ridge dangerous to cyclists

Southbound Nimitz Blvd, between Bernice Dr and Chatsworth Blvd. Note the gap between the asphalt and the concrete....bike tires get stuck in those really easily and no matter how experience you are, if you drop a wheel into these you are going to crash.

Southbound Nimitz Blvd, between Bernice Dr and Chatsworth Blvd. Note the even larger gap between the asphalt and the concrete....it's a good inch and a half wide and 15-20 feet long at the end! Even mountain bike tires get caught in something that wide

Last picture...Southbound Nimitz Blvd, between Bernice Dr and Chatsworth Blvd. You can see Chatsworth here. Bike lane continues to be rutted and potholed.

We appreciate your active interest in your community. We will be able to better serve you as you submit your concern here: http://apps.sandiego.gov/streetdiv/ or call our 24 hour Customer Service line at 1-619-527-7500.

City,

Request you contact the SeeClickFix Government Partnership Director, Mr. Jeff Mooney (jeffm@seeclickfix.com) or 203-254-0777. The City of San Diego signed up to use SCF and thus, from my standpoint, it is a perfectly acceptable method for citizens to report issues. Mr. Mooney would be able to tell you who made that decision - that gives you "top cover" to receive inputs via SCF, a method far faster and more convenient to the citizens of the city.

Your website is not user-friendly. Inputting jobs is manually-intensive and, because there is no ability to attach a photo, we have to type more words to explain the problem. Attaching a photo tells the story without requiring the citizen who is reporting the issue to 1) go home and log onto his computer (because we can't use your website unless we are sitting at a computer) 2) write a descriptive description of the problem when a photo tells the story far better. Without that photo you have to send a guy out to the site to even figure out what is going on.

More importantly, SCF is also more convenient to the citizen because it does not require him to determine who in the City he is supposed to contact ("for stomrwater issues call X, for road striping issues call y, for road repair call z". That is a non-user-friendly method, particularly when there are multiple problems in play. When that is the case the citizen should not be responsible for coordinating the response - that is a recipe for citizen disengagement and inefficiency. The CITY should handle the routing. That way the citizen just reports it in SCF and the CITY figures out (probably mostly based on the photo) who is going to fix it.

Bottom line, you need to embrace the method the citizen perfers to use to identify an issue, not steer us to your method, particularly when the city itsellf has emraced this method. Your method should be one of several acceptable methods.

Alex

City of San Diego,

A FOURTH job on this same issue was just inputted in SeeClickFix, over the past 2 years on this 3-4 block section of NIMITZ. Other jobs are 154814, 151467 and 151692. I have not seen a single comment from anyone at the City on any of them. PLEASE FIX. I took pictures of the items that need to be fixed, they are in job #154814

This issue has been fixed satisfactorily by the complete repaving of Nimitz' entire length. Outstanding work, City of SD!

Thanks for fixing this issue!