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For anyone who has followed our bike-path sagas in Sonoma, you know that the city council finally voted to "take our disconnect and connect it" by building the bridge over Fryer Creek at Newcomb Street (see place-mark 1 on attached image). Now the school board is building a fence behind the high school (see red line on attached map).

Fence to block off back of SVHS

We're not sure what… Continue

In October a resident of the Springs area of Sonoma Valley came to me rather upset about an encounter she had with a car on the newly renovated section of highway CA-12 in Boyes Springs. This cyclist was riding in what she perceived to be a bike lane alongside CA-12 when a car took the bicycle lane to use as a turning lane for Thompson Ave and almost hit her.

I contacted the county and the employees were very responsive but the "answer" from CalTrans was, well, typical CalTrans.

The gist is th… Continue

The BABC was awarded $15,000 to create the iBikeChallenge web and iPhone application to promote bicycling trips throughout the Bay Area. The iBikeChallenge is an online competition that encourages users to bike for everyday transportation by tracking the total benefits to their budget, their health and the environment. The iPhone application will track users trips which will generate data that will be used by transportation planners to improve the network of bicycle

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 26, 2009

Contacts:
Meghan Cahill, League of American Bicyclists, 202.822.1333, meghan@bikeleague.org
Wendy Atkins, City of Sonoma, 707.933.2204, WendyA@Sonomacity.org
Sandra Lupien, Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition, 707.694.8702, Sandra@BikeSonoma.org

The League of American Bicycli… Continue

This message was recently posted by Sonoma resident on the Sonoma Valley Cyclists email list and I'm posting it here to help reach a wider audience.

On Wednesday, November 4, the Sonoma City Council will be discussing the use of the City’s grant-funded bicycle improvement money to build a bicycle/pedestrian bridge across Fryer Creek either at Newcomb Street or Pickett Street. On September 16, at the last City Council meeting where this bike/pedestrian bridge was considered, public commen… Continue