America’s first bicycle boulevard along Bryant Avenue in Palo Alto features a number of intersections that restrict motor vehicles but allow bicycles and pedestrians to pass through unhindered. Major intersections, such as the one with Embarcadero, look like this, where cars and trucks must turn right, but bikes can continue through. Here’s the Google Streetview read more
Holocaust survivor, PTA mom, city council member, and bike advocate: Ellen Fletcher succumbed yesterday at age 83 to lung cancer at her Palo Alto home.
83 year old Ellen Fletcher is the matriarch of cycle advocacy in the San Francisco Bay Area. The League of American Bicyclists featured her this morning as part of their 31 days 31 reasons series.
Bike activist Ellen Fletcher runs for Palo Alto City Council in 1979.
Ellen Fletcher (age 80-something) organizes the bike valet parking for Stanford football games. She needs your help! The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition is looking for volunteers to provide watchful eyes over hundreds of bicycles parked during Stanford Football games in our bike corrals. Game times and opponents are posted at GoStanford.com. This year’s game schedule: read more
I was in Palo Alto during the Gran Fondo today and saw a RideKick electric power trailer attached to Ellen Fletcher’s Breezer Citizen!
