#MontereyCounty #VisionZero

¡Tenemos 3 formas diferentes para que usted comparta sus historias, inquietudes e ideas para hacer que su comunidad sea más segura - incluyendo eventos en persona y más! https://www.tamcmonterey.org/monterey-county-vision-zero

LOS PRIMEROS eventos presenciales:

Greenfield:
lunes 12 de mayo de 5:30 a 7pm
Sala del Concejo Municipal de Greenfield, 599 El Camino Real, Greenfield

Soledad:
Martes 13 de mayo de 5:30 a 7pm
Centro Comunitario Soledad, 560 Walker Dr, Soledad

Gonzales:
miércoles 14 de mayo de 5:30 a 7pm
Sala comunitaria en la estación de policía de Gonzales, 109 4th St, Gonzales

TAMC has 3 different ways for you to share your stories, concerns, and ideas to make your community safer—including in-person events and more.

FIRST in-person events:

#Greenfield:
Mon, May 12, 5:30–7pm
Greenfield City Council Chamber

#Soledad:
Tues, May 13, 5:30–7pm
Soledad Community Center

#Gonzales:
Wed, May 14, 5:30–7pm
Community Room at Gonzales Police Station

May is Bike Month, and Bicycling Monterey’s anniversary month—the 16th in 2025. We are grateful to the people listed in: https://bikemonterey.org/16th-anniversary-bicycling-monterey-alpha-list-of-donors.html.

Is your name on that list? If not, consider supporting this grassroots volunteer effort as one of your #BikeMonth actions: https://bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations/donors. Thank you!

Thurs, May 8 at 6 pm in the Gawain Family Outdoor Theater at York School: Ben Jealous, Monterey County native and currently executive director of Sierra Club. Event is free and open to the public. - Report by Agata Popęda, #MontereyCountyNow https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/opinion_blog/prominent-civil-rights-activist-ben-jealous-returns-to-his-alma-mater-for-a-discussion-on/article_3a3800e0-84d8-4bd9-b07d-f5202f41c79e.html

Our #transportation advisory: York School is off Highway 68, which we personally bike on frequently but as brief a distance as possible (high-speed traffic, no bike lane). Carpooling encouraged. (TMK, and it’s a Catch 22: Due to heavy traffic on CA SR 68, making it nearly impossible to keep to a schedule, it’s just not feasible for Monterey Salinas Transit to provide bus service.)

Speaking of Hwy 68: We’re about to make yet another report to #Caltrans about more broken car parts not cleared from the shoulder. (Sigh. Not unusual, e.g., https://sfba.social/@bikemonterey/113709985426108972.) Where to report: https://csr.dot.ca.gov/

May 7, 2025, 6 p.m. Transportation Agency for Monterey County Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) meeting in GONZALES. Public welcome to attend, in person or via Zoom or phone. https://bikemonterey.org/monthly-meetings-tamc-bicycle-pedestrian-facilities-advisory-committee-public-welcome.html Note agenda items https://www.tamcmonterey.org/files/9348f6ef3/BPC+Agenda+May+Packet.pdf include a presentation on the Pajaro to Prunedale Corridor Study and current progress on safety improvement projects along the G12 Corridor; and a presentation on the King City San Antonio Drive/Broadway Street Bike Path and
Safe Routes to Schools Improvements Project, including progress on the roundabout designs
and environmental review process.

June 14 at Henry Miller Library on the beautiful Big Sur coast! Dan Frechette and Laurel Thomsen Quartet, with Dan Robbins on bass and Bruce Handloff on drums. Tickets are limited for this intimate setting in the redwoods. https://www.danandlaurel.ca/Tour/

Video snippet—violin solo by Laurel / laurelthomsen.com— was from this same quartet's Santa Cruz show on Easter Sunday, 20 April 2025.

#MontereyBay #SantaCruz #BigSur #MontereyCounty #LiveMusic #DanFrechette
#LaurelThomsen #DanRobbins #BruceHandloff #violinist

Sunday, May 4, beginning at approx 11 am* - Bike train / meetup and ride together. Details: https://bikemonterey.org/bike-month-pop-up-event-may-4.html

#MontereyCounty #BikeMonth

Destination for this Sun, May 4 ride: Dan Frechette and Laurel Thomsen free #LiveMusic performance (D&L play 11am-2pm) at Mechanics Bank stage (Lighthouse & Grand), Pacific Grove, part of #GoodOldDays festivities. Also, 4-5pm Dan’s band Vinyl Revival performs on Monarch stage (17th & Lighthouse), PG

#BikeCommunity #BikeLove #CommunityBuilding #SundayRide #BikeToLiveMusic
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* Note to #BikeToWorship Sunday folks: We encourage going to earlier service, or meeting us later. We do pass some churches along our route—maybe yours! Tips for people who bike to church, mosque, satsang, synagogue, or other place of worship. Be inspired by Monterey County scenes and tips: https://bikemonterey.org/bike-to-worship.html

May 2025 is the 16th Anniversary of Bicycling Monterey, Monterey County’s Local Partner of the California Bicycle Coalition / #CalBike. Our favorite #BikeAdvocacy task is direct outreach by bicycle! Here is a sampling of people we met each of the past 16 years. Among them: #PeopleWhoBike for #transportation, recreation, who bike to #protest rallies, bike to #FarmersMarkets, bike to #surf, #BikeToSchool and #BikeAndRide for a #DadAndDaughter date, #BikeToWork (and yes, pedaling in a business #suit is no problem for him), #HandCycle bike to exercise the #dog, bike to #travel long distances / #BicycleTouring.

https://bikemonterey.org/16th-anniversary-gallery-bicycling-monterey-may-2025.html #BicyclingMonterey #BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #California #BikeAdvocates #ActiveTransport #BikeMonterey

People who bike in California - Take Action for #BikeMonth
https://www.calbike.org/bike-month/
#CalBike #BikeTooter #MontereyCounty

The bicycle education program at the Monterey County Probation Department Youth Center was founded by Bicycling Monterey in April 2012 and still rolls on in April 2025!

The bike tech class series—providing bicycle repair and maintenance instruction—is only possible because of two volunteers who stepped up in 2012 and still continue volunteering on this 13th anniversary: Frank Henderson and Luciano Rodriguez.

Details: https://bikemonterey.org/probation-dept-youth-center-bike-education.html

From our ride last eve, a short video message for parents or others caring for young children.

#Parenting #RainyDay #MudPuddles #Children #PuddleStompers #Patience #PauseForNature

California Assembly Bill 1014
#AB1014
#SlowSpeedsSaveLives

Just today a woman who bikes sent me a video showing a motor vehicle as it struck her at the end of West Broadway Urban Village in Seaside. We shuddered to think how much more she’d have suffered if it were going faster.

"So far, the bill has faced no registered opposition and has drawn support from a broad coalition, including the California Bicycle Coalition / #CalBike, Rural County Representatives of California and Streets Are For Everyone. Supervisor Chris Lopez has also shown support for the proposal.” —Report by KYARRA HARRIS in #MontereyHerald

https://www.montereyherald.com/2025/04/28/supervisors-weigh-support-for-traffic-bill-aimed-at-reducing-speed-limits/

#ActiveTransportation #TrafficSafety #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #StreetsAreForEveryone
#BikeTooter #MontereyCounty

We stop for wildflowers.

From this eve’s ride.

Over 70K people attended the 4-day Celebration of Cycling in Monterey County this month, Sea Otter Classic.

Our Bike Buzz, Special Edition shares the viewpoints of some of those people, in four posts — including youth, women, first-time and long-time attendees, people speaking languages other than English, and people visiting from other countries:
https://bikemonterey.org/reports-from-sea-otter-classic-2025.html

Our quarterly newsletters typically include a lot of timeless/evergreen information. And that’s true of the last issue, #Bike Buzz Winter 2025. This eve we added 9 bullet points, with anchor links, to the top of that issue, especially for the benefit of the Regional Task Force for the #Monterey County #VisionZero Plan.

Wherever you live, you may be interested in some of those 9 topics too! Here ya go: https://bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-winter-2025.html

Hear the voices of 9 women—from China, Denmark, Guatemala, the U.K., state of Idaho, and California—all out celebrating cycling at #SeaOtterClassic 2025 in #MontereyCounty: https://bikemonterey.org/women-celebrating-cycling-at-sea-otter-classic-2025.html

#SeaOtterClassic, April 10-13, 2025
"The bikes are arriving in Monterey County—you may have noticed a higher-than-usual number of bikes attached to vehicles on the road lately.” https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/opinion_blog/as-the-sea-otter-classic-gets-underway-the-next-generation-of-cyclists-learns-how-to/article_bce5736c-4218-4ca6-96a3-e9a1ff1f8f03.html

ICYMI: Some history of SOC, who it’s for, and how to get free admission: https://bikemonterey.org/april-10-13-sea-otter-classic-2025.html

For anyone wondering, yes, there are #MontereyCounty, California #HandsOff events April 5:
Salinas Valley https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/767861/
Monterey https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/764540/

If you’re going and are able, please bike, walk, skate, scoot, take #MontereySalinasTransit #bus (or bike-and-ride MST https://bikemonterey.org/monterey-salinas-transit-tips-for-people-who-bike.html), or carpool there.

Spreckels sugar factory and sugar beet field with Mexican and Filipino workers thinning sugar beets. Monterey County, California

#Spreckels #Mexican #Filipino #MontereyCounty #California #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017771832/