Below, get a dose of local, state, national, and international bike buzz. For more, follow @bikemonterey on Mastodon or give us a call.

SAVE THE DATE FOR SPECIAL SPRING EVENTS:

• April 14, 2024 Monterey Peninsula’s Sand City Criterium. Details: https://mbrt.bike/sand-city-crit/. 
• April 18-19, 2024 California Bicycle Summit in San Diego; jump here for details.
• April 18-21, 2024 Monterey County’s Sea Otter Classic. Some SOC history: https://bikemonterey.org/category/bike-monterey-county/events/sea-otter-classic. Current info: https://www.seaotterclassic.com/.

Monterey County Buzz

Cited? Bicycling Monterey has had a burst of calls in the first months of 2024 from youth who want to avoid paying a hefty traffic court fine after receiving a bicycling-related citation. Why are they calling us? Among Bicycling Monterey projects is a Bike Equity Project: Alternative to Fine for Traffic Citations.

Tip of the helmet to organizers of a cool new op for Greenfield youth. If you’re a Greenfield middle or high school student, or older elementary school student, you’re invited to share in adventure, friendship, and fun as part of Greenfield CSW Bike Club! https://bikemonterey.org/greenfield-csw-bike-club.html

If you’re similarly planning a group social ride, make use of instrux in https://bikemonterey.org/rideout-or-rude-out-make-your-bike-party-courteous-safer-legal-and-fun.html.

We bid a fond adieu to Pacific Grove bike shop Winning Wheels, family owned and operated for 38 years by the Chavez family. They will be greatly missed! Keep an ear to the ground about the possibility of Winning Wheels continuing under new ownership. Meanwhile, to find other options, start with Bicycling Monterey’s list of Monterey County’s local bike shops.

Daniel Troia’s bicycling documentary “We Are All in This Together” again benefited Dorothy’s Place in Salinas, with early March screenings that sold out! Details: https://bikemonterey.org/bike-film-we-are-all-in-this-together.html

Photo above courtesy of Daniel Troia.

Bicycle & Pedestrian Facilities Advisory Committee meetings, Transportation Agency for Monterey County — March 6 and other dates. Public welcome and encouraged to attend.

Feel like a fish out of water at such meetings? Refer to the bilingual glossary below.

California Buzz

To go to the start of Winter 2024 Bike Buzz, click here.

Bilingual Glossary of Transportation Terms / Glosario Bilingüe de Términos de Transporte created by the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation is definitely relevant outside LA too! Details: https://bikemonterey.org/glosario-bilingue-de-terminos-de-transporte.html

California Bicycle Coalition / CalBike’s legislative agenda for 2024. Check it out, then join with Bicycling Monterey and others in supporting legislation important to you and your California communities. Details: https://www.calbike.org/calbike-announces-2024-legislative-agenda/

Hey, legislators—and candidates
for the state legislature and
other public offices: I bike, I vote!

California Bicycle Summit 2024

Summit! The California Bicycle Coalition / CalBike biennial California Bicycle Summit will be April 18-19, 2024 in San Diego. The Summit is an inspiring gathering of advocates, planners, transportation agency staffers, elected officials, and others who care about creating a more bikeable, walkable California. Learn more: https://www.calbike.org/events/california_bicycle_summit/

Complete Streets on Caltrans Corridors: On March 6, 2024, 9-10:30 a.m., CalBike will host a panel discussion on Zoom: Complete Streets on Caltrans Corridors. Panelists include Jeanie Ward-Waller (Fearless Advocacy), Kendra Ramsey (CalBike), Laura Tolkoff (San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association / SPUR), and Sandhya Laddha (Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition), with State Senator Scott Wiener also joining the conversation. The webinar, an advance session for April’s California Bicycle Summit, is free, but advance registration is required. Registration link and details: https://www.calbike.org/complete-streets-webinar-launches-calbike-campaign/

ICYMI, some related info: https://bikemonterey.org/complete-streets-in-california-survey-on-state-controlled-roads.html; https://bikemonterey.org/governor-urged-hold-caltrans-accountable-to-californias-climate-action-plan.html.

National Buzz

Kit de AARP para auditorías sobre el uso de bicicletas / AARP Bike Audit Tool Kit (now available in Spanish too) https://bikemonterey.org/kit-de-aarp-para-auditorias-sobre-el-uso-de-bicicletas.html.

Also see our intro to the AARP Bike Audit Tool Kit — and why make use of it. https://bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-autumn-2023-news-from-bicycling-monterey.html#AutumnBikeAuditToolKit

Storm clouds? Tips for people who bike in rainy weather—road and mountain. https://bikemonterey.org/rainy-weather-tips-for-people-who-bike.html

International Buzz

Climate: Too hot, too cold, too windy, too wet, too dry—too much change in the Earth’s climate, and already too many crisis-level impacts on children and other living things! For the next seven generations, please heed the call of climate activists. And as Jill Warren, chief executive of the European Cyclists’ Federation, said: “The potential for cycling (and walking) to help address climate change is huge and within our grasp.”
https://bikemonterey.org/climate-change-why-speak-up-for-cycling.html

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