Circulator - 12/05/2025 - Circulate San Diego

Join, Renew, Get some Circulate Swag!

To close out the year, we’re extending our special Giving Tuesday thank-you through December 31.

Anyone who joins or renews at the $50 level or higher will receive a Circulate hoodie, long-sleeve shirt, or coffee tumbler. You’ll get to choose your item after you make your gift.

Your support helps drive our work for safer streets, faster transit, and more homes across San Diego. If you’ve been thinking about joining or renewing for 2026, now’s a great time.

Join us at Lindo Lake’s Snow Day Event!

Join us today at Lindo Lake for their Snow Day Event!

We will be bringing out our Traffic Calming Course and distributing pedestrian and bicycle safety materials. The 10-foot x 14-foot vinyl course showcases a variety of traffic calming treatments such as a roundabout, curb extensions, and protected bike lanes, among others. Along with the course comes a set of remote-controlled toy vehicles where participants are expected to navigate the course in a safe and controlled manner.

Stop by our table to try out the course and take home a bike light, reflective bracelet, or activity book!

Save the Date: Bike With the Fire Chief & Holiday Toy Drive

Join us on this Saturday, December 6th at the Bike With the Fire Chief & Toy Holiday Drive!

Get your bikes and helmets ready and bring any unwrapped toys to this year’s 5-mile guided ride along the downtown waterfront with Fire Chief Logan! This event is open to all ages and will be led by certified instructors from the San Diego Bike Coalition.

For the YMCA Toy Drive – Please bring new and unwrapped toys for children ages 0-12. Toys will be distributed locally at the Jackie Robinson Family YMCA’s community event and to children in Tijuana, Mexico.

In addition to the bike ride and toy drive, there will be several information booths at 2580 Kincaid Rd, San Diego. Come visit us and many other booths as we will be distributing pedestrian and bicycle safety materials to all those that stop by!

Sneak Peek at Our 2026 Plans

Circulate Members are invited to an exclusive Year-End Zoom Briefing on December 17 at noon for an early look at what we’ll be working on in 2026.

Hear directly from our staff and leadership about our priorities for the year ahead, and share your ideas and feedback during the discussion.

Reminder: Renew your Circulate Corporate Membership for 2026 by December 31 and receive a 10% renewal discount. Your support helps us keep building a safer, more connected San Diego.

ACTION ALERT: Tell your officials to prioritize road safety

Last month, Circulate San Diego launched an online tool for San Diegans to write to their elected officials and demand safer streets.

Nearly 50 pedestrians and cyclists are killed on City of San Diego streets each year. The City has pledged to end traffic deaths, but these numbers are not budging.

Circulate and safety advocates have repeatedly called on our elected officials to take action and fund safety improvements to stop deaths on our streets. The City has not answered this call. Now, Circulate is asking for YOUR help to call on our elected officials to fund road safety in 2026.

Find more information and write to your leaders here.

Recap: 2024-2024 City of San Diego Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Program

This past year, Circulate teamed up with the City of San Diego to bring bicycle and pedestrian safety programs to residents across the city! With support from the California Office of Traffic Safety, Circulate delivered a packed lineup of impactful events and programs that made San Diego’s streets safer and more accessible for everyone.

The Circulate team worked hard throughout the year to deliver on this project and is looking forward to doing it all again for the 2025-26 cycle!

To learn more about the program and check out a few highlights, check out our blog post here.

Circulate CEO on podcast talking infrastructure with the Association of General Contractors

Earlier this week, our CEO and General Counsel Colin Parent was a guest on the new podcast from the Association of General Contractors, San Diego Chapter.

They discussed fixing California’s housing & transit bottlenecks, with a focus on our latest report “The Powerless Brokers: Why California Can’t Build Transit.

Curious why major projects get stuck? How do permitting delays drive up costs? And what policy changes could finally move things forward? Colin breaks it all down.

Colin appears at about the 30 minute mark.

Recap: Meet and Greet with OTS Community Engagement Coordinator

On Thursday, December 4, Circulate was invited to meet with Elisa Ramirez, the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) Community Engagement Coordinator. The meet and greet was hosted by the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency in order to highlight Circulate’s work on the Walk N Roll program and Community Health Improvement Partners (CHIP)’s role in facilitating Resident Leadership Academies (RLAs). It was wonderful to have an opportunity to discuss our work directly with OTS, and we are looking forward to another great year of partnering with the County.

Interested in scheduling a free pedestrian audit, bike rodeo, school assembly, safety presentation, or other related traffic safety program for your community? Reach out to [email protected] and we’ll get right back to you!

Circulate News

Caltrans construction project reshapes Friars Road with new bike lanes, freeway ramps, ABC 10 News, November 19, 2025

Oceanside City Council Approves Next Steps for Oceanside Transit Center Redevelopment Project, North County Transit, November 20, 2025

Transit Briefs: NYMTA, KC Streetcar, NCTD, WMATA, DART, Railway Age, November 20, 2025

Montgomery County Sees 29% Drop in Severe Road Accidents Under Vision Zero Initiative, Hoodline, November 21, 2025

Large transit-oriented development in North County approved in Oceanside, inewsource, November 21, 2025

Charged Up: The Rise of E-bikes, series Part 6: If e-bikes are here to stay, now what?, La Jolla Light, November 23, 2025

Oceanside Transit Center redevelopment wins council approval, Railway Supply, November 22, 2025

Oceanside City Council greenlights next steps for transit center redevelopment, KUSI news, November 23, 2025

After Prop. 50, San Diego may lose its only Republican in Congress as Democrats target Issa, inewsource, November 24, 2025

Montgomery County Seeks Teen Leaders for “Vision Zero Youth Ambassador Program” to Promote Road Safety, Hoodline, November 25, 2025

Philadelphia Unveils Vision Zero Action Plan 2030 to Eliminate Traffic Fatalities, Hoodline, November 26, 2025