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The Sonoma County Trails Council is proud to announce that the International Mountain Bicycling Association’s Trail Care Crew will be in Santa Rosa to teach the art and science of trailbuilding by interactive learning and hands-on trailwork. The Crew will teach “sustainable” trail building, which means building trails that last a long time and require minimal maintenance. This helps reduce trail damage, protects the environment, and enhances visitor enjoyment.



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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).



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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… Continue