Bicycle Lifestyles
Project: Boosting Bike Equity
One of the many Bicycling Monterey projects is devoting time and resources toward what many bike advocates refer to as bike equity. Dr. Adonia Lugo, manager of the Bike Equity Network, wrote to Bicycling Monterey’s founder: “You put your region’s diversity front and center in your work.” Bicycling Monterey’s equity efforts since 2009 have included—but are…
Fourth of July week in Monterey County
Bike or bike-and-ride to 4th of July fun–in Carmel, King City, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Salinas, Spreckles, or elsewhere in Monterey County. See what’s happening this 4th of July weekend, and get tips for people who bike to the festivities.
Santa Cruz scene: Just love everybody
One day in Santa Cruz, along my regular bike-to-work route, I paused to photograph this billboard on Soquel Avenue near Branciforte. There was another billboard just like it on Ocean Avenue. This photo was previously published, along with my essay “God Bless the Vandal,” in the November 29, 2001 issue of Good Times, a Santa Cruz weekly. Santa Cruz…
Completion! — Castroville Bicycle and Pedestrian Bridge
Short link to this post: http://bit.ly/CastrovilleBridge Related posts: http://bit.ly/espanolInfraArte, http://bit.ly/InfraArt Meet the new Castroville Bicycle/Pedestrian and Railroad Overcrossing Bridge. These night scenes were photographed June 1, 2018. When I went to see the completed bridge, the day after its ribbon-cutting ceremony, I thought I’d be traversing it alone at night. But a family with young children was…
“If you build it, they will come”: Helping visitors, and residents, use sustainable transportation
Increasing numbers of people are eager to bike. The Bicycling Monterey website, which marks its 16th anniversary in 2025, is used by visitors from Canada, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, Turkey (like the couple below), Ukraine, and many other places. See what they say. Travelers from Australia, China, England (like the trio above), France, Germany, Holland, Italy, and other countries, and from all…
Support the bicycling revolution: Be part of the Bicycling Monterey work
Journalist Karen Kefauver (below, forefront at left) wrote in Bicycling Monterey’s’ third year: “Your website has started a revolution in Santa Cruz. We want to launch a site like yours – but we imagine we need 10 people at least to launch what you have done.” The Monterey County visitor at left below exclaimed: “Monterey is very bike…