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Marin Cycling Booster Shifts Gears After 13 Years
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Deb Hubsmith, a cycling zealot whose political savvy blazed many North Bay bike paths over the past 13 years, will step down as advocacy director for the Marin County Bicycle Coalition to focus on the national Safe Routes to School program she founded. Hubsmith will remain an advisor to the Marin coalition while handing off […]
Cyclist Outcry Forces Delay on GG Bridge Speed Limit Vote
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Golden Gate Bridge directors today tabled their staff’s surprise proposal for a 10 mph speed limit for bicycles after outraged cycling advocates denounced the plan as everything from a “half-baked idea” to a “solution in search of a problem.” The bridge’s Building and Operating Committee received more than 60 complaints prior to the hearing, then […]
10-mph Speed Limit Proposed for Golden Gate Bridge Bicyclists
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The Golden Gate Bridge staff wants to impose a 10 mph speed limit on bicyclists – with a $100 fine for violators – following a year-long study that excluded input from local cycling groups. The speed limit would drop to 5 mph around the blind corners of the bridge’s towers and in construction areas. There […]
Cal Park Tunnel Opening Ceremony Sees Hundreds of Cyclists
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Hundreds of joyous Marin County cyclists pedaled through the Cal Park Hill tunnel Friday afternoon as officials cut the ribbon on a $27 million holiday present that supporters hailed as a national model for green transportation. The 124-year-old railroad tunnel, sealed after a fire in 1990, connects the Larkspur Ferry landing to San Rafael, trimming […]
Cal Park Tunnel Opening Today Culminates Nearly Two Decades of Planning
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After 17 years of planning, the Cal Park tunnel will open to Marin County cyclists today, providing a shorter, safer route between San Rafael and the Larkspur Ferry for an estimated 800,000 riders a year. The 1.1-mile project includes class 1 bike lanes to connect the 1,106-foot bore with Sir Francis Drake Boulevard on the […]
Cyclists Celebrate Reopening of Upper Conzelman Road in Marin Headlands
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Despite the threat of thunderstorms, scores of cyclists climbed the Marin Headlands on Saturday as the Golden Gate National Recreation Area celebrated the completion of the first year of a four-year effort to upgrade roads for cyclists, cars and pedestrians. Only about 20 riders showed up for a 9 a.m. group ride, but dozens of […]
Landscapers Used Banned Pesticide on New Marin County Bike Path
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Photo: MCBC Marin County’s ribbon cutting and celebratory ride Monday in the Alameda del Prado bike lanes – a long-missing link in the county’s North-South bikeway – was followed by the revelation that landscapers used a weedkiller banned under the county’s strict pesticide law. The $950,000 project closed a mile-long gap between Ignacio Boulevard and […]
Talk of Bike Tax Riles Cyclists in Sausalito
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Photo: Bike and Roll San Francisco Talk of a one-dollar tax on rental bikes in Sausalito is fanning long-simmering tensions between the picturesque city and the local cycling community. While most cities in the San Francisco Bay Area complain there aren’t enough tourists, some Sausalitans have the opposite concern – too many tourists riding rented […]
Sausalito To Install Donated Bike Racks for Tourists
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A group of tourists visiting from Venezuela. Photo by Pam MacLean. What do you do when hundreds of cyclotourists descend on your bucolic village, clogging sidewalks with rented bikes? The Sausalito City Council is trying to quell a virulent public debate with a tried-and-true solution: install a lot of bike racks. The council voted 4-1 […]
Marin’s Cal Park Tunnel To Open by February 2010
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Redwood timbers being ripped out of the old tunnel. Within a few weeks, there should literally be a light at the end of the Cal Park tunnel for cyclists commuting from San Rafael to the Larkspur ferry. Engineers are mucking out dirt and boulders on the collapsed south end of the 1,100-foot tunnel, making room […]
Alto Tunnel Workshop Draws Standing-Room-Only Crowd
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A large and divided crowd turned out last night in Marin County to help decide whether the long-neglected Alto Tunnel between Mill Valley and Corte Madera should be reopened to cyclists. County planners stressed the workshop was intended only to gather community input on three possible routes as part of a $225,000 study that will […]
Workshop Tomorrow on Marin’s Alto Tunnel
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Click for a larger image Cycling enthusiasts have long dreamed of reopening the rotting, 125-year-old Alto Tunnel as a key link in a greenway stretching from the Golden Gate Bridge to Cloverdale. Now they may get their chance, as the county’s Non-motorized Transportation Pilot Program begins a $225,000 study of three routes between the two […]