Bicycle Friendly Community

Oceanside, CA| Bronze Level

Community Highlights: In Oceanside bikes are allowed inside Sprinter, AMTRAK, Metrolink and Coaster trains; additionally, all busses are equipped with bike racks. Ability to combine travel modes and Oceansides’ three pit stops program has helped attract more than 1,000 participants annually to Bike to Work Day. Oceanside promotes bicycling with the Oceanside Family Bike Day along the Sun Luis Rey River Trail, a new Historic Bicycle Tour downtown, and by encouraging local cyclists to ride along with Race Across America competitors at the start of each year’s race. Oceanside also offers the Blue Bike program, making bikes available for free, public use. The city has also redesigned intersections with improved signange, bicycle detection sensors and pavement markings. Two of the city’s traffic engineers completed Traffic Skills 101 training. 

Best Result of Designation: Last year the city mailed more than 40,000 bike safety tip cards with utility billings.