The 49-Mile Scenic Ride is a bicycle take-off on the 49-Mile Scenic Drive:
The 49-Mile Scenic Drive (also known as 49-Mile Drive) in and around San Francisco highlights many of the city’s major attractions and historic structures.
Opened on September 14, 1938 as a promotion for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, it features views of the [...]
‘An idea at least as exciting as it is astonishing’ — that is what I would call Portlander Joe Doebele’s decision to create a bicycle business incubator:
Joe Doebele’s big idea is to help other Portlanders with theirs.
The 44-year-old Doebele, who grew up in Chicago and moved to Portland in 2000, has rented a building near [...]
Mark Elliot is blogging for the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition. He’s written a post in which he points to a great Google Map that shows how much of the Bay Area is accessible by using Caltrain with your bicycle. Google will only show up to five circles on a map at once, so if you [...]
First, a word of warning - I heard this event was ’small’ and ‘full’ and you needed tickets, but event details from Livable City don’t mention tickets:
Public Space, Public Life: Findings and preliminary recommendations from the Fisherman’s Wharf Pedestrian Study
Wednesday October 8, 7–8:30 pm
Theater 39 at Pier 39 (next to Aquarium at the Bay on [...]
San Mateo is tackling childhood obesity:
A 2005 study found that 25 percent of San Mateo County’s youth are overweight, prompting the Get Healthy San Mateo County Task Force — a collection of teachers, health department officials and community groups — to find ways to reduce the problem.
On Monday, the group launched two information-filled Web sites [...]
Generally speaking, the shrinking of the car economy is a good thing for us bicyclists (and pedestrians). It really is a perfect storm:
Auto dealers, who make their living moving cars off the lot, increasingly are finding themselves driving off into the sunset.
The financial crisis that has stung homeowners and depressed credit markets has spared no [...]
I stumbled upon Access SF yesterday, the public access channel for San Francisco (Channel 29). Of course my first thought was, ‘I wonder if there is any bike programming on there?’.
In fact there was. I’m unable to locate it at the moment, but around 3 a.m. Sunday morning, there was a program on the schedule [...]
7th Street is one of the main ways we folks from the outside lands of 3rd Street reach downtown. Everyone from 16th Street and south, who wants to get to the center of the city - Tenderloin, Civic Center, etc. - would cruise north on Third Street (or Illinois Street), make a left (head west) [...]
That’s what the New York Times City Room blog suggests:
Updated, 5:20 p.m. | The city is doing an all-out bicycling push over the next few years, creating 200 miles of new bike lanes and paths and exploring the concept of bike sharing. But a city study found that one of the biggest obstacles to [...]
The SFBC website informs us:
Check out this great way to pay off parking tickets
Need to pay parking tickets? Work them off at SFBC through a special DPT program called Project 20!
Here’s what you do to sign up:
First go to 1380 Howard St, 1st Floor, Monday - Friday, between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. phone: 415-626-4995
After [...]
