David Schmalz
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,…
North Fremont, Monterey bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure changes, including Class IV lanes
Related update, 6/18/24: “TAMC seeks $10.4M grant to close trail network ‘gap’ near Seaside,” by James Herrera, Monterey Herald https://www.montereyherald.com/2024/06/18/tamc-seeks-10-4m-grant-to-close-trail-network-gap-near-seaside/. * * * https://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/1203499041419489281?s=20 See Bicycling Monterey’s 12/13/19 post “Why get involved in infrastructure planning: North Fremont, Monterey— and other projects.” https://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/1187482961781747712?s=20 The photo directly below shows construction progress as of August 30, 2019. Note…
Sharing Monterey County Parks and Other Public Lands: Administration, Care, and Use
Short link to this post: http://bit.ly/SharingParks https://twitter.com/BikeMonterey/status/1221135149275828224?s=20 The post below was first published October 31, 2017. On November 2, 2017, two updates were made: (1) Link to and comments about the November 1, 2017, Voices of Monterey Bay story by Royal Calkins, “A Toro Timeline.” (2) Info about misleading brochures on the Monterey County Parks website…
Soberanes Fire: Reliable information resources on closures and more, plus how to help
Short link to this post: http://bit.ly/SoberanesFire Take the Big Sur Pledge: http://bigsurpledge.org With deep gratitude for Robert Oliver Reagan III coming to our assistance in Monterey County, this post is dedicated in memory of Robert. A bulldozer operator and CAL FIRE partner, he died July 26, 2016 while fighting the Soberanes fire. To learn more about Mr. Reagan, please scroll…