Road Advisories

  • Bike Santa Cruz: Advocate for West Cliff and Broadway

    Our Monterey Bay Region partner among Local Partners of the California Bicycle Coalition, Bike Santa Cruz County, sent an Action Alert today about two important routes for people who bike—West Cliff Drive and Broadway Avenue. Sign up for their mailing list to receive such alerts. Below are our letters emailed today to the Santa Cruz…

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  • Salinas Valley Active Transportation—Safe Routes to School and elsewhere

    Update: Torstein Rehn, April 5, 2023, KSBW, “Gonzales to create [a pilot project, scheduled for April 7 – June 30, 2023 —see purple box below] bike routes, increase crosswalk visibility for school kids.” https://www.ksbw.com/article/gonzales-to-create-bike-routes-increase-crosswalk-visibility-for-school-kids/43521167 * * * The information below was previously published 17 September 2022, with some subsequent updates. * * * Update: Ryan…

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Tsunami warning? Enjoy alternates to coastal bike path

    Often the “tsunami warning” on a bikeway sign won’t capture your attention–unless a disaster reminds us that nature is in charge! Here are some alternate bike routes when you prefer to avoid low-lying areas, along with tips from the National Weather Service shared as part of Tsunami Preparedness Week.

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  • May 2019: Marina and Seaside Safe Streets Demonstrations

    Short link to this post: http://bit.ly/SafeStreetDemos USA Bike Month 2019 includes Safe Streets Demonstrations in Marina and Seaside, California. For details, see James Herrera’s 4/23/19 story in the Monterey Herald, “Marina and Seaside to have Safe Street Demonstration events in May—Measure X Safe Routes to School program is aimed at developing better and safer options…

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