Search Results for: Bike railroad crossing

Guadalupe River Trail closed in June

The city of San Jose, CA will pave the Lower Guadalupe River Trail beginning in June 2012. Cyclists and other trail users are instructed to detour onto North 1st Street during trail construction.

Post crash anxiety

I’m feel dread when crossing railroad tracks since my header last Saturday.

Bikeway Design Guide

After two years of work, the National Association of City Transportation Officials released an Urban Bikeway Design Guide. This online resource is meant to help transportation officials design better bike facilities in the United States.

Santa Cruz bike path rail crossing

Some cyclists claim the bike path railroad crossing in front of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is unsafe after city council rejects injury claims.

Taiwan Cycling Festival: Riding Where Your Bike Was (Likely) Made!

TAIWAN, where I unexpectedly I got my cycling groove back! That bicycles can be a means of bringing strangers together was never truer than on this trip. An unlikely rag-tag group of 5, plus our guide, spent 12 days touring this beautiful paradise. We went from clean bustling cities like Taipei, to rice field-lined bike read more »

The Legacy of Livable Streets

Josh Hart in San Jose wearing Rivendell MUSA rain pants. Four decades ago, professor Donald Appleyard’s research showed the social and recreational functions of streets can be severely impaired by high-speed car traffic. His research and book Livable Streets is considered a springboard for the modern livable streets movement. In 1982, Appleyard’s life and work read more »