Category - Active Transportation
CicLAvia, the Largest Open Streets Event in the U.S., is Back
As we exited Highway 110, heading east toward Wilmington, the landscape grew more industrial. We passed an…
New Westside Rail Trail Paves the Way for Localized Bike Improvements
Small improvements add up to better biking, and today we can highlight a recent way that this happened. New Leaf Community…
Big Sur by Bike and the E-Bike Revolution
The COVID pandemic saw an explosion in e-bike adoption in the U.S. Even before the…
County of Santa Cruz Active Transportation Plan Moves Forward With Temporary Installations
It has been an action-packed few months for Ecology Action’s planning team. As part of…
I Took my 96-Year-Old Grandma on an Electric Cargo Trike through Santa Cruz, and This is What Happened
1942. That’s the year that my Grandma Virgie estimates was the last time she rode…
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait, and State Transportation Funding is Coming to Santa Cruz County
As the 20th-century poem by Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie counsels, “Good things come to those…
Santa Cruz County bounces back, and then some, for Bike Month 2021
It all started… …with the first Bike to Work Day in Santa Cruz in 1987, to demonstrate…
New Bike Infrastructure Comes to Watsonville
New bike infrastructure is being added across Santa Cruz County every year, and some of…
Safe Route Group Rides Make an Entrance for Bike Month
We pulled up to Alta Coffee right as the staff were preparing to open for the day. After unloading our…
A Whopping $32 Million for Biking and Walking in Monterey Bay!
Monterey Bay Area transportation agencies have won three major and highly competitive grants, with the…