Night with the Archivist — Bicycling

From the SF Bicycle Coalition:

Join our staff archivists for a special peek into the CHS collection. May is National Bike Month and to celebrate, materials on bicycling and California bicycling clubs will be pulled from the collection for this one night only viewing. View colorful and creative flyers, postcards, advertisements, maps of bicycle routes, and historic photos on cycling California

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By Melanie Curry |
Yesterday, Senator Carol Liu (D-La Cañada Flintridge) introduced a bill in the California legislature that would require all bicycle riders, including adults, to wear a helmet, and to wear reflective clothing at night. Senator Liu has been an ally for active transportation and bicycling, including supporting the three-foot law that took so long to get […]
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The Inaugural National Women’s Bicycling Summit

By Elizabeth Press |
The first National Women’s Bicycling Summit took place last week in Long Beach, California. It was tacked on to the Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference and drew some of the same participants, a bunch of new faces and whole lot of positive energy. This summit provided women cycling advocates the opportunity to talk about topics that aren’t often programmed into […]
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LA Times Opposes CA Helmet Law, But Gets One Point Wrong

By Melanie Curry |
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times wrote a mostly thoughtful editorial against Senate Bill 192, Carol Liu’s proposed mandatory helmet law for bicyclists. In the Times’ opinion, there isn’t enough evidence to show that helmets make bicycle riders safer to justify changing the law. Hear, hear. One thing the editorial board didn’t get right: saying that “many of […]

California Bike Coalition Seeks More Representative Caltrans Standards

By Jim Brown |
The following is being republished from the monthly newsletter of the California Bicycle Coalition. When bicycling facilities help people feel safer, more people of all ages and abilities ride bikes. Yet the current statewide design standards keep California cities from building the kind of facilities envisioned by the Urban Bikeways Design Guide released earlier this […]