Registration for the Eight Annual Supermarket Street Sweep in San Francisco closes this Friday, so do it right now if you plan to participate, especially if you’d like a free t-shirt (limited quantities!). Last year, 119 racers participating in the Supermarket Street Sweep collected over three tons of food and $7400 for food banks in […]
I enjoyed my ride with Cat along the Guadalupe River Path in San Jose this morning. If you don’t know Cat, you might know his bike – it’s the monstrous electric-assist home-built chopper built with scraps of wood and metal. I peeled off at River Oaks as he continued north to his office. The first […]
The National Weather Service says we might get as much as a quarter inch of rain in the San Francisco Bay Area, and up to a half inch in Santa Cruz. The storm will travel across the Bay Area during the morning rush hour and move south, so plan accordingly. Bike news below.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released their 2012 traffic fatalities numbers yesterday, and the wonkier blogs make note that cyclist and pedestrians fatalities increased faster than those of car occupants. Between 2011 and 2012, we had a 3.3% increase in traffic fatalities in the United States, while cyclist and pedestrian fatalities increased by […]
Over the objections of an absent Mayor Rob Ford, the Toronto city council voted earlier today to bail out the financially troubled Toronto Bike Share program operated by Bixi.
ChangeLab Solutions, a non-profit that works to improve livability, has created a simple Safe Routes to School policy builder tool for use by school districts to generate a boilerplate Safe Routes policy. A written Safe Routes to School policy focuses school district staff in encouraging active transportation to school. To use the online toolkit, all […]