June 10, 20133 Comments on Three sad bikes in Santa Cruz
I saw this trio of bikes locked up at the downtown Santa Cruz Metro Center transit station over the weekend. Let’s evaluate their security.
Number one is this Gary Fisher Big Sur, secured with a Master Lock cable lock.
June 9, 2013Leave a Comment
Seen this weekend in Santa Cruz, California.
The guy with the ukulele calls himself Ocho the Owl. You can find his tunes at Reverb Nation.
Here’s a pro tip for those of you visiting Santa Cruz. I know it might be very warm “over the hill” in the Santa Clara Valley, but it can be significantly cooler near the beach, especially in June. Bring a jacket and your trip will be much nicer.
Also, if your GPS routes you over some of our back roads to get around the extremely congested traffic on Highway 17, PLEASE SLOW DOWN, especially around cyclists like myself and my daughter. Some of you jackasses were really aggressive around us Saturday afternoon on our tiny two lane mountain roads with significant cycling and pedestrian traffic. These are local roads for local traffic, so do not treat them like your personal freeway. Thank you.
June 5, 2013Leave a Comment
The editing and audio quality are pretty rough, but this student produced video shows some of the bicycle services available at the University of California Santa Cruz, including the bike library, the bike co-op, and the free bike shuttle (18 bike capacity!) from town to campus.
This video comes from the Transportation Campaign at the UCSC Student Environmental Center. The bad advice to “never use your front brake” combined with video of clearly dangerous gutter and sidewalk riding make me cringe, and I guess I’d always ride with a helmet too if I rode like that, but these kids have heart and they’ll figure it out.
Via Andrew on the Santa Cruz Bike Party Facebook page.
May 14, 2013Leave a Comment
This might be a perfect opportunity for those who need community service hours for school.
The Community Traffic Safety Coalition needs your help for the annual Santa Cruz County bike and pedestrian count. Regular bike counts are essential to measure the trends in active transportation use.
To sign up, please sign up here.
May 14, 2013Leave a Comment
The newly constructed Emma McCrary Trail through Pogonip Park in Santa Cruz opens for use on Saturday, June 1.
May 13, 20133 Comments on Santa Cruz to consider $10M Highway 1 bridge project
The Santa Cruz city council will consider Tuesday night whether to move forward on widening the Highway 1 bridge over the San Lorenzo River. The city plans to widen this bridge from four lanes to seven lanes at an estimated cost of $10M to $15, half using local funds, the other half using state provided dollars. Anybody who drives to Harvey West, UCSC, and up the coast recognizes the bottleneck on Highway 1 between Highway 17 and Highway 9.
