City of Monterey
Bike advocacy, state and local: Mark Thomas, Monterey; CA SR 68; and elsewhere in California
Short link to this post: https://bit.ly/MarkThos This post was republished October 8, 2024 to bring attention to David Schmalz’s reference to “The Mark Thomas Project” in his Oct 8 article in Monterey County Now, “The North Fremont bike path will go somewhere, eventually.” https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/opinion_blog/the-north-fremont-bike-path-will-go-somewhere-eventually/article_b9e81400-85d2-11ef-bd05-03d31885376f.html David’s article notes, “Projects of any kind locally take a long…
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,”…
A Decade in the Life of a Bike Advocate
Short link to this post: http://bit.ly/DecadeBikeMRY A 10th year of bike advocacy volunteering has been completed. A local partner of the California Bicycle Coalition, Bicycling Monterey—the website and all projects—have been provided as a public service by an unpaid volunteer for a decade, from May 1, 2009 to May 1, 2019. To recognize this work with a one-time…
Wintertime Gallery + Holiday Tips
In Monterey County, winter days often see thousands of people on bikes–like the 40 folks captured on December 20 in these images, all out biking the City of Monterey to get where they wanted to go–or just to get an extra burst of holiday cheer.
“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…