All bike share programs run by Alta Bike Share make their station data publicly available. For Bay Area Bike Share, you can find the real time data here. My GIS guru friend Steven Vance tells me the data is updated once every minute, and points to helpful resources like this Chicago hack night document pointing […]
Last Thursday, Santa Cruz police posted this photo of alleged bike thief and “probation allstar” Egmidio Anderson on their blog. The police blogger wrote that Mr Anderson was in possession of “a blue Peugeot bicycle with thin racing tires and a snazzy new seat. We’re not convinced he owns the bike.” The very next day, […]
From a Yelp review of Cafe Mare in Santa Cruz, CA. The pasta special tasted good but I found a small metal object that made it into my mouth. Called waiter over and chef said that it was a small bike part. That sounds very Santa Cruz – not only did a bike part make […]
Seen today on the Santa Cruz Harbor breakwater.
The folks at CABO tell me that the California Assembly voted this morning to approve the amendments to AB 1371, representative Steven Bradford’s “Three Feet for Safety” bill that mandates (sort of) a minimum 3 feet of clearance when a motor vehicle passes a bicycle. 51 voted in favor of the amended bill, while 23 […]
In this episode of People Behaving Badly by KRON 4 News Stanley Roberts, an ethics teacher tries to tell a parking enforcement officer (on bike, yay!) that she shouldn’t get a parking ticket because /ahem/ she teaches ethics? More Bicycle News Urban Velo has been posting photo galleries of products seen at Eurobike. Start here […]