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VTA budget notes

April 30, 2013 – 4:25 pm

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.

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Let’s Go Giants

October 30, 2012 – 10:51 am

San Francisco parade on Wednesday to fete baseball World Series Champion Giants expected to draw one million. Local transportation officials advise celebrants to use public transportation, and buy your transit tickets today to avoid the crush of last second purchasers. You can ride your bike to the parade, too, if you want, though navigating through read more »

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Glamour & Transit

June 17, 2010 – 10:42 am

Happy Dump the Pump Day, everybody.

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Monday morning bike report

May 3, 2010 – 11:01 am

Happy USA Bike Month! Today is another beautiful day in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Caltrain bike cars are getting noticeably busier now that Caltrain’s survey of bikes on board is done. A great big thank you to REI, who linked to my celebrities on bikes page to their nearly 17,000 Twitter followers read more »

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Are bike people friendlier than the average transit rider?

November 18, 2009 – 9:00 am

I don’t have an especially outgoing personality, yet I generally have little problem approaching complete strangers when we’re on bikes, talking with them and often enough shooting photos of them. I have little in common with many of the bike riders I see on Caltrain and the bus, but I know about their families, where read more »

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Detroit to enforce bicycle registration

July 3, 2008 – 10:30 am

More and more people I know are riding their bikes to work and to get around. I’m also hearing a lot more about bike theft. It’s mostly from newbies who don’t know how to lock their bikes effectively, but that’s not always the case. It seems like I’m also seeing more bike theft notices posted read more »

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