Monterey (the city)

  • 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…

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  • Making Eye Contact with Drivers: Vehicle Size and Other Perils

    It’s often recommended to people who walk, bike, skate, or scoot that one way to improve their safety, especially at intersections, is to make eye contact with drivers. In fact, when the City of Monterey made use of some 2021 California Office of Traffic Safety pedestrian and bicycle safety grant funds, they installed “SEE AND…

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  • Ocean Love: Bike to Surf, Sail to Bike

    Rain received November 1, 2022 was needed and welcomed—including by the surfer above, who we spotted biking near Lovers Point in Pacific Grove’s section of the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail network. No worries about getting wet when you’re biking in a wetsuit. Above: Tim is regularly seen biking to a variety of destinations—commuting to…

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  • Rest Stops: People who bike, walk, or otherwise get about sometimes just need to “sit a spell”

    This post, previously published April 15, 2018, was updated August 4, 2022, primarily to fix broken links to websites whose site redesigns resulted in links leading to error pages (e.g., City of Monterey’s climate action plan).For a 2024 post about a new rest stop, in Monterey, click here. Short link to this post: https://bit.ly/PublicBench Buzz…

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  • Bike Buzz: Spring 2022 news from Bicycling Monterey

    Happy spring! Directly below are snippets of news, followed by photos of some Monterey County winter scenes (21 Dec 2021 – 19 Mar 2022). At the end of this post, see recent samplings from our Twitter stream. Special dates Report a pothole, uneven pavement, vegetation or other debris in a bike lane, or similar conditions…

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  • Who’s biking in City of Monterey, June 2021?

    Visitors from the San Francisco Bay Area People who bike to a farmers market. Monterey Peninsula children and teens, including the boy above, who was out enjoying an evening on the coastal trail with family members. People shopping by bike, at the Del Monte Center—and disappointed to find most bicycle parking racks had been removed.…

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