City of Seaside
Bike Boxes for safer intersections
A BIKE BOX is an area at the head of traffic lanes that is designated for people on bicycles. It gives bicyclists a way to get ahead of cars in a safer, visible manner while waiting for a traffic signal to turn from red light to green light. Short of bikeways with a physical barrier,…
Monterey County Weekly on King City, Monterey, Salinas, and Seaside stroads
The cover story for the Monterey County Weekly’s March 9-15, 2023 issue, “Stroad Rage,” features stories by four Weekly staff writers, as highlighted below. Here’s an Intro by staff writer Tajha Chappellet-Lanier: https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/opinion/mcnow_intro/street-road-or-stroad-the-answer-will-greatly-impact-your-experience-of-downtown/article_218ceeb6-beea-11ed-81bd-2b39df35cbec.html https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/cover/streets-roads/collection_e1e49e48-bdeb-11ed-91e3-b3a9cf6cde17.html Photos in this post, shot in those cities in past years, are by Bicycling Monterey. Celia Jiménez, on King City “Lastly…
Fort Ord Regional Trail and Greenway (FORTAG) Project: About the Del Rey Oaks segment
May 1, 2024 update on FORTAG projects in process: /fort-ord-regional-trail-greenway-fortag-update.html David Schmalz, April 6, 2023, “An agreement between Del Rey Oaks and TAMC, which looked settled, is now in limbo.” https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/opinion/mcnow_intro/an-agreement-between-del-rey-oaks-and-tamc-which-looked-settled-is-now-in-limbo/article_8a513e6a-d4ee-11ed-a41e-0fa33ec306a5.html Staff, December 29, 2022, “We revisit the moments in Monterey County that grabbed our attention this year.” (Refer to June 7.) https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/cover/we-revisit-the-moments-in-monterey-county-that-grabbed-our-attention-this-year/article_7e8aead6-86ec-11ed-b157-b360d1e892b0.html David Schmalz,…
Bike advocacy: How to get notifications about Monterey County municipal meetings affecting people who bike
Just want the list of links to local cities, so you can get on their notifications lists? They are in the the green and yellow boxes at the end of this post—or just click here. As we say elsewhere on this site (e.g., in “Speak up for bicycling: Transportation Agency for Monterey County’s bike-ped committee,”…