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Green paint on Hedding Street

Richard MasonerJune 26, 20131 Comment on Green paint on Hedding Street

San Jose city council member Sam Liccardo, who represents the city’s downtown district, applies green paint to the asphalt on Hedding Street just east of Highway 87 during a press event.


Hedding Street bikeway press conference

This event announced the start of the Hedding Street green bikeway project, which is San Jose’s first green bike lanes. San Fernando Street will come later this year.

You can view video of the press conference here if you’d like. Liccardo gave the best (which is to say, the shortest) speech.

Lady Fleur got a photo of me looking like a dork that you can view here.

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Green bike lanes roll out Wednesday in San Jose

Richard MasonerJune 25, 20133 Comments on Green bike lanes roll out Wednesday in San Jose

On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 1:00 p.m., representatives from the City of San José, Our City Forest, and the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition will roll paint in an effort to get more bicycles rolling in the city. The event will take place on Hedding Street at the Guadalupe River Trail on the west side of Highway 87. The painters will inaugurate San José’s first green colored pavement in a marked bikeway – a mile and a half bike lane on Hedding Street, connecting the future Berryessa BART station in East San José to the Guadalupe River Park and Trail, which runs north-south through downtown.



Hedding Street Green lanes media event location on Hedding Street on the Guadalupe River Trail.

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Funk or Rave?

Richard MasonerJune 21, 20131 Comment on Funk or Rave?

Happy Northern Solstice, all. If you’re south of the arctic circle and north of the equator, today is your longest day of the year.

To celebrate this longest day in northern California, you have a choice between two bike parties tonight.

Santa Cruz Bike Party Funky Soulstice Ride begins 7 PM at the Bike Church on the corner of Pacific and Laurel.

Funky Soulstice Ride Santa Cruz Bike Party

And San Jose Bike Party “RAVE RIDE” begins at 8 PM tonight at St James Park on 1st and St James Street in downtown San Jose.

Which should you attend?

The Rave Ride in San Jose will be huge, epic, and wild. I anticipate record crowds.

The Santa Cruz ride tends to be a little more lawful, more intimate, much smaller (a couple of dozen participants vs literally multiple thousands in San Jose), and just more mellow overall. Look for me at the Santa Cruz ride tonight.

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San Jose Hit & Run: Watch for a silver Dodge truck

Richard MasonerJune 20, 2013Leave a Comment

Police released more details on the hit and run collision that killed 55 year old cyclist Glen Arnold Earnest on Monday afternoon. They’re asking the public to be on the lookout for a “dirty white,” light gray or silver 90s or early 2000s Dodge truck — either a Durango (a small-ish SUV) or the Dakota (a mid size pickup truck) — with significant front end damage from the hit-from-behind collision. Some witnesses report the front bumper might be missing.


Ghost Bike for Glen Arnold Earnest

A personal plea from friends and family of Mr Earnest was left at the ghost bike left in memory of the cyclist. “Whoever did this to my best friend & family please turn yourself in please. We know in our heart it was an accident.”

Of 19 traffic fatalities in the city of San Jose, California this year, 13 have been pedestrians or cyclists.

A cyclist who travels this bridge daily has this petition asking the city to improve the cycling conditions here.

Details in the Mercury News: San Jose: Victim ID’d in SUV deadly hit-and-run; driver sought.

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Another cyclist killed in San Jose

Richard MasonerJune 18, 20137 Comments on Another cyclist killed in San Jose

A hit and run driver killed a cyclist Monday afternoon on the Taylor Street overpass over Highway 87. This is the third cyclist fatality in the Bay Area’s largest city in a week.



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I’ll promote a comment left earlier this morning by San Jose resident Mark Saurwald. Saurwald has previously brought up the lack of east-west bike connectivity to city and county transportation planners.

This highlights the lack of East-West bike routes in San Jose from the area north of downtown (from SJSU to the Airport) to Santa Clara. The only options are Hedding which has a narrow bridge overpass over the Caltrain tracks, or Taylor where the bike lanes that exist on either side of highway 87 disappear to accommodate crossing traffic from all directions getting on/off highway 87. The cyclist was taking one of the only roads available to cross 87/Caltrain tracks, which has terrible bike accommodation, but is the best available.

Update: the cyclist was identified as Glenn Arnold Earnest, age 55. The ghost bike installed in his memory was removed in August.

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