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Sausalito Bike Tourists a Boon, Not a “Plague of Locusts”
Amalia Pittier of Caracas, Venezuela spent a sunny day riding a rented bike across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito with her two traveling companions, stopping to buy lunch and spend money shopping for gifts they will take home to family and friends. Little does this tourist know she's at the center of a local controversy because she and her friends are among the estimated 250,000 visitors annually who rent bikes to ride over the bridge for a day of sight-seeing before they climb on an evening ferry for the return trip.
April 17, 2009
Marin’s Cal Park Tunnel To Open by February 2010
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 for an 11.5-foot wide bike path and tracks for the SMART commuter rail trains.
April 2, 2009
Alto Tunnel Workshop Draws Standing-Room-Only Crowd
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.
March 5, 2009
Workshop Tomorrow on Marin’s Alto Tunnel
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 southern Marin towns.
March 3, 2009