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Local Strong Towns group focused on making Temecula more financially resilient and people-friendly through small, practical improvements to streets and neighborhoods.

10/08/2026

Part 3 of our 10-minute walk from Las Haciendas! 🚶

In Parts 1 and 2, we looked at a missing sidewalk, the surrounding walking environment, and pedestrian crossing buttons that weren't working.

Here's some good news! After reporting the issue and hearing back from the City of Temecula, I returned to test both buttons. Both worked during my visit! Thank you to the City for addressing the issue.

David Matics also shared some helpful information and a drawing related to plans for this area. Thank you, David, for taking the time and allowing me to share them!

There's still more to learn about pedestrian connections here, but it's encouraging to see one issue addressed.

Do you have any additional information or thoughts about this area?

Here’s more from the walk I shared in Part 1.A lot of the sidewalk is already there, but walking the route yourself make...
10/01/2026

Here’s more from the walk I shared in Part 1.

A lot of the sidewalk is already there, but walking the route yourself makes you notice things you would probably miss from a car.

One of those things was a pedestrian signal that wasn’t activating in either direction. I reported it to the City of Temecula, and the city has since marked the issue resolved. I’ll check it again on a future walk.

I also passed a historic 1879 home that I had never really noticed the same way while driving by.

Not every walk has to uncover a huge problem, and not everything has to be solved at once. Sometimes finding one small issue, reporting it, and learning a little more about the place is enough.

Part 3 coming soon with more feedback and a drawing about the project.

Las Haciendas has 77 apartments and could be home to 200+ residents. About a 10-minute walk away are restaurants, shops,...
09/25/2026

Las Haciendas has 77 apartments and could be home to 200+ residents. About a 10-minute walk away are restaurants, shops, and other services.

But the beginning of that walk has a problem: the sidewalk disappears.

There’s a new development going in across the street, so could this be an opportunity to finally complete the connection?

If you know what’s planned here—or have any information about this area—please comment or message us.

Part 2: the nearby pedestrian crossing signal, where both buttons currently aren’t working. I’ll be reporting that to the City and following up.

Sometimes what looks like bad behavior is really someone trying to make an incomplete route work.Walking through a place...
09/22/2026

Sometimes what looks like bad behavior is really someone trying to make an incomplete route work.

Walking through a place helps reveal those little gaps — especially when you imagine navigating it on a bike, in a wheelchair, or with limited mobility.

The encouraging part? Not every improvement needs to be massive. Sometimes a curb ramp, a short connection, or a clearer path is enough to make getting around safer and more intuitive.

09/14/2026

We’re launching “BIKE STREETS” in Temecula! Log every ride with BIKE STREETS and help us build the low-stress Temecula Bike Map. Ride and help us reach our first week goal of 20/riders.

You know your favorite chill bike routes. And so do your neighbors. Bike Streets makes it possible to bring all of this local knowledge together in one place so anyone can bike to any destination in our city today.

https://bikestreets.com/join

09/07/2026

Let’s say you wanted — or needed — to walk from your house.

Maybe you wanted to hang out at the mall, stop at Chase Bank, or walk over to Food 4 Less to pick up something affordable.

How would you actually get there comfortably?

Which sidewalk do you take? Where do you cross? Which path through the parking lot are you supposed to follow?

When our shopping centers are laid out like a maze, walking becomes something you have to figure out instead of something that simply works.

You shouldn’t have to wrap around buildings, get lost behind a business, or suddenly find yourself walking in the middle of car traffic like you’re somewhere you don’t belong.

These are everyday destinations. Walking to them should feel normal.

Have you found another place around Temecula where the walking route just doesn’t make sense? Send it to us — we’d love to go look at it together.


08/31/2026

This is Strong Towns.

08/26/2026

Around our schools, we're having serious conversations about e-bikes.

And yes — dangerous riding and high-speed electric motorcycles are legitimate concerns. Reckless riding is a behavior problem. Bicycling isn't.

What interests me is what we've come to see as normal.

At dismissal, cars back up and circulate through residential neighborhoods. Engines idle. Residents navigate around pickup traffic. Children walking and biking move through an environment dominated by vehicles.

Yet somehow, the bicycle can become the thing that looks out of place.

We manage where children ride, where they cross, when they stop and when they need to get off their bikes. But what about the system producing this enormous concentration of vehicles every afternoon?

A larger loading zone might organize the cars better. Opening another neighborhood street might give them somewhere else to go. But that's a familiar solution: accommodate the traffic, and then accommodate the traffic created by accommodating it.

The harder question is:

Why do so many families feel they HAVE to drive their children to school?

Imagine if walking, biking and e-biking were safe and ordinary enough that the school pickup line mostly served families who genuinely needed it — longer distances, disabilities, special circumstances and other needs.

Maybe the bicycle isn't what's out of place.

Maybe our streets have made independent movement look unusual.

08/15/2026

I appreciate seeing Temecula add protected bike infrastructure like this. The flexible posts are a real improvement, and Old Town is a great place to reach by bicycle. (Santiago Rd)

But bike infrastructure matters most when it connects people to the places they need to go.

Someone I know works at the In-N-Out on the other side of the larger stroad shown here. If they wanted to bike to work, how are they supposed to cross this safely and comfortably? (Jefferson Ave)

Nearby we also have a major bridge with a sidewalk and an enormous amount of space for vehicles, but very little guidance for someone on a bicycle. Where should they ride? What happens when the bridge ends and they have to merge into the next major road? (Overland Dr)

This area connects local jobs, businesses, a college, shopping, and everyday services. These aren't just recreational destinations.

Should a person riding a bicycle to work, school, or the store have to enter fast traffic and be treated like they're in the way simply because the bike network ends?

The protected lanes show that we know how to make cycling feel safer.

Now let's connect them to the places people actually need to reach.

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