Circulator - 07/26/2024 - Circulate San Diego

Published July 26, 2024

Recap: Summer Membership Mixer
Momentum Awards Nominations are Open!
SDSU’s Walk Audit
City Council Passes Blueprint General Plan Refresh
Metropolitan Transit System Implements Easy Fare Payments
Mobility Certification Helps Transit-Oriented Projects Get Built
Circulate News

RECAP: Summer Membership Mixer

Thanks to everyone who attended our Summer Membership Mixer!

Special thank you Senator Catherine Blakespear for offering remarks. We were excited to hear how the is working to build more homes and faster transit.

We especially want to thank all of our corporate sponsors and individual members who attended -- together we are making San Diego a better place to live, work, and move around.

Don’t miss our next mixer on September 25^th or our annual Momentum Awards on November 15th. Snag an individual ticket or become an event sponsor.

LEARN MORE!

Momentum Awards Nominations are Open!

Nominations are now open for Circulate San Diego’s annual Momentum Awards. Our Momentum Awards honor the people and projects in the San Diego region that are advancing excellent mobility choices and vibrant, healthy neighborhoods.

Categories include:

Safe Streets and Vision Zero Award
Public Transit Connectivity Award
Sustainable Growth Award
Innovation Award
Advocate Award
Public Voice Award
Mid-Coast Award

Learn about award criteria and nominate your favorite project, agency, company, or individual by 5:00 pm on August 15, 2024. You are encouraged to self-nominate and to nominate a client's project.

DON'T WAIT, SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATIONS TODAY!

SDSU’s Walk Audit

In collaboration with San Diego State University, Circulate is hosting a walk audit to observe two of the three Fatal 15 intersections on El Cajon Blvd.

Bring your walking shoes and meet us in World Foods Supermarket parking lot (5245 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, CA 92115) at 4:00PM on Tuesday, July 30^th. Circulate staff will be wearing bright yellow vests!

On this 2-mile walk audit, participants will observe the two fatal intersections and pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure in the area using walk audit tools designed to solicit feedback on what needs to be improved in the area.

RSVP HERE!

City Council Passes Blueprint General Plan Refresh

On Tuesday, July 23, the San Diego City Council adopted Blueprint SD, the City of San Diego’s General Plan Refresh. Blueprint is a timely effort that will create a framework for future growth for the City and allow for much needed housing to be built. Circulate’s most recent letter in support of Blueprint can be foundhere.

Circulate Policy Counsel Will Moore spoke at Council to urge adoption of the plan, which passed 9-0.

Metropolitan Transit System Implements Easy Fare Payments

This week, the Metropolitan Transit System updated its PRONTO payment system to make fares easier to pay using contactless payments. Previously, if you had a guest in town, they would have to download the PRONTO app and set up an account before they could join you on a simple trolley ride to the ballpark. Now they can just tap their credit card on the reader at the station or on the bus. It’s the same way many people already pay for things at a store.

Will Moore, Policy Director for Circulate said, “This will benefit all riders of the system, since a familiar payment system reduces confusion and gets everybody on the trolley or the bus faster.”

Circulate has urged MTS to implement free transfers and stored value since 2016, recommendations that were implemented by the creation of the PRONTO system. Circulate also detailed how easy fare payments improve service times in its October 2022 report “Fast Bus.”

Circulate’s advocacy this week generated press coverage by the Union Tribune and Fox5 news, among others.

Mobility Certification Helps Transit-Oriented Projects Get Built

Circulate San Diego wants to help your smart growth project get entitled and built.

The Circulate Mobility Certification provides recognition and support for transit-oriented, smart growth projects in the San Diego region.

Circulate Mobility Certification projects receive a formal letter of certification that can be provided to elected officials, community groups, and decision-makers that demonstrates the independent recognition of the sustainable, transit-oriented, and smart growth characteristics of the project.

They are also granted use of the Mobility Certification Seal. And Circulate promotes its mobility certification through press releases, website summaries, social media, and recognition at Circulate San Diego events, the Circulator newsletter and even public testimony before government agencies.

To find out more information, or to download an application, visit http://circulatesd.org/certified.