The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) are working on their biennial budget for fiscal 2014 and 2015. VTA’s fiscal year begins on July 1. Here are my quick observations from selections of the draft budget.
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) are working on their biennial budget for fiscal 2014 and 2015. VTA’s fiscal year begins on July 1. Here are my quick observations from selections of the draft budget.
Electric bicycles are rated in terms of the power rating of their motors. But what does it mean to have a “250 watt” motor on your bike?”
Nobody who drives a car ever has to think about the various technologies used to trigger traffic signals. You just drive up to the intersection, and within at most 120 seconds (but probably less) you’ll have a green light. Anybody who rides a motorcycle or bicycle on the road has encountered “defective” traffic lights — read more
Proposed laws include agency immunity from liability on any street with bike lanes; CEQA exemption for bike plans The deadline to submit bills for the 2013 legislative session passed last Friday. Among the 2200 bills submitted by our representatives since the legislative year began, I’ve listed the bills I found that directly affect cyclists in read more
The Spanish-language N-Punto teen zine are running a bike rack design contest, with numerous submissions ranging from the purely practical to the whimsical.
A nice promotional video for Bike To Work Day 2012 produced by the (San Francisco) Bay Area Bicycle Coalition shows how we roll around here. “It doesn’t matter what you wear. It doesn’t matter what you look like.”