Where tickets were issued to cyclists Source: San Diego Police Department

San Diego bicyclists received more than 1,600 citations between January 2015 and May 2016, according to data from the San Diego Police Department.

Not all of the citations were related to bicycle operation, but the person was on a bicycle when stopped by police. Downtown bikers received 657 citations, the most of any area in the city. That included 133 violations of pedicab ordinances. Pacific Beach bicyclists had the next highest share at 250 citations.

Other neighborhoods with high numbers of ticketed bicyclists include North Park at 133 citations, City Heights at 99 citations and Hillcrest at 90 citations during the year and a half covered by the records request.

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Men received the lion’s share of tickets, 1,456 out of 1,625. Women cyclists received 166 citations. Five citations did not have the cyclist’s gender specified in the data, obtained by Data Watch under the California Public Records Act .

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