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Additions to our Winter Bike Buzz https://bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-win ter-2025-2026-news-from-bicycling-monterey.html include details on a portion of Monterey County’s section of the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail affected by construction (Monterey-Salinas Transit’s SURF! project and California State Parks Fort Ord Dunes project): https://bikemonterey.org/monterey-bay-coastal-trail-partial-closure-and-access-map.html

#MontereyBaySanctuaryScenicTrail
#MontereyBayNationalMarineSanctuary
#CaliforniaCoastalTrail
#MontereyBay #MontereyCounty
#ACAPacCoast
#BikeTouring #BicycleTouring #cycling #biking #ResponsibleTravel #SustainableTravel

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Additions to our Winter Bike Buzz https://bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-win ter-2025-2026-news-from-bicycling-monterey.html include details on a portion of Monterey County’s section of the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail affected by construction (Monterey-Salinas Transit’s SURF! project and California State Parks Fort Ord Dunes project): https://bikemonterey.org/monterey-bay-coastal-trail-partial-closure-and-access-map.html

#MontereyBaySanctuaryScenicTrail
#MontereyBayNationalMarineSanctuary
#CaliforniaCoastalTrail
#MontereyBay #MontereyCounty
#ACAPacCoast
#BikeTouring #BicycleTouring #cycling #biking #ResponsibleTravel #SustainableTravel

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Text on signpost reads:
Sanctuary Scenic Trail
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
California Coastal Trail 

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@Scienceisnotopinions Yes, riding a bike legally, safely, and courteously is a skill set, which is why we focus so much time on helping youth, and adults, acquire those skills. As for cycling the wrong way, a surprising number of people mistakenly think they are to bike against motor vehicle traffic, as a pedestrian is to walk. We wish we had more time to reply here, but note the attached letter about one of the teens we’ve helped this year whose citations included one for exactly that reason: not biking on right side of roadway. @cpm

Resources on Riding Skills, Bike Laws, and Safety: https://bikemonterey.org/resources/res ources-on-riding-skills-bike-laws-and-safety

#cycling #biking #BikersEd #BikeEducation #YouthEducation #transportation #PublicSafety #BikeLaws #Skills

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@Scienceisnotopinions Yes, riding a bike legally, safely, and courteously is a skill set, which is why we focus so much time on helping youth, and adults, acquire those skills. As for cycling the wrong way, a surprising number of people mistakenly think they are to bike against motor vehicle traffic, as a pedestrian is to walk. We wish we had more time to reply here, but note the attached letter about one of the teens we’ve helped this year whose citations included one for exactly that reason: not biking on right side of roadway. @cpm

Resources on Riding Skills, Bike Laws, and Safety: https://bikemonterey.org/resources/res ources-on-riding-skills-bike-laws-and-safety

#cycling #biking #BikersEd #BikeEducation #YouthEducation #transportation #PublicSafety #BikeLaws #Skills

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An Aug 17 2025 letter, on behalf of a local teen, from Bicycling Monterey to a Monterey County court commissioner. Excerpts: "This is to advise the court that X has completed more than 10 hours of community service for Bicycling Monterey. He also invested 19 hours in one-on-one bike education sessions with me, plus additional hours in independent study, viewing assigned riding skills and safety videos….From the start, X showed astonishing initiative — to a degree uncommon even in individuals far older — and flawless follow through. Over the past 7 weeks, we've had 17 conversations about bicycling topics. X is eager to learn. And without fail, he has proven to be exceptionally responsible, reliable, and trustworthy....
Before doing community service, X began our process as I asked: by first learning about bike laws, riding skills, safety issues, and infrastructure. He meticulously went over educational audios, videos, and written material in sessions with me, and he was exceptionally engaged in our discussions of the material. It was clear from the start that the citations received — VC21650.1-Bicycles Ride on Right of Roadway; VC21202(a) Bicycles Less Than Normal Speed-Keep to Right; and VC23103(a)-M-Reckless Driving — were primarily due to lack of knowledge, and he was profoundly interested in extensive 'biker's ed.’"

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A blue Tern NBD witih red panniers has paused in front of a City of Monterey cabinet wrap that states: SEE AND BE SEEN , GO WITH THE FLOW.  RIDE WITH TRAFFIC. The wrap includes acknowledging the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), which provided a grant to the city for this and 3 other cabinet wraps. (For more, refer to https://bikemonterey.org/making-eye-contact-with-drivers-vehicle-size-and-other-perils.html. )

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Bike Buzz: Fines for bicycle-related #California #Vehicle Code (CVC) violations
https://bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-fin es-for-bicycle-related-california-vehicle-code-cvc-violations.html

#BikeLaws #TrafficFines #TrafficCitations #cycling #biking #TrafficLaws

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Bike Buzz: Fines for bicycle-related #California #Vehicle Code (CVC) violations
https://bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-fin es-for-bicycle-related-california-vehicle-code-cvc-violations.html

#BikeLaws #TrafficFines #TrafficCitations #cycling #biking #TrafficLaws

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A police officer on a bicycle at a 4-way stop sign in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.

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Jennifer Lynn Chatman of Salinas died Nov 3, 2025 after her bicycle was struck by the trailer of a semi truck at the intersection of South Sanborn Road and Work Street, Salinas.

As we told Sara Rubin, #MontereyCountyNow / #MontereyCountyWeekly editor, infrastructure such as protected bike lanes with a physical barrier are what’s most needed to keep people who bike safer. In general, paint on pavement provides little to no real benefit in preventing fatalities.

Nevertheless, one “paint on pavement” practice we would like to see far more of — and which possibly could have saved Jennifer’s life — is bike boxes at intersections.

https://www. montereycountynow.com/blogs/op inion_blog/a-string-of-vehicle-collisions-in-salinas-ends-with-a-tragic-fatality-of-a-cyclist/article_074be0fe-e7dc-4924-920d-7a247d655514.html

Report by Josh Copitch of KSBW: https://www. ksbw.com/article/person-struck-by-semi-truck-in-salinas/69244696

#BikeTooter #TrafficViolence #TrafficCollision #trucks #bicycles #MontereyCounty #PublicSafety #ActiveTransportation #cycling #biking

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Jennifer Lynn Chatman of Salinas died Nov 3, 2025 after her bicycle was struck by the trailer of a semi truck at the intersection of South Sanborn Road and Work Street, Salinas.

As we told Sara Rubin, #MontereyCountyNow / #MontereyCountyWeekly editor, infrastructure such as protected bike lanes with a physical barrier are what’s most needed to keep people who bike safer. In general, paint on pavement provides little to no real benefit in preventing fatalities.

Nevertheless, one “paint on pavement” practice we would like to see far more of — and which possibly could have saved Jennifer’s life — is bike boxes at intersections.

https://www. montereycountynow.com/blogs/op inion_blog/a-string-of-vehicle-collisions-in-salinas-ends-with-a-tragic-fatality-of-a-cyclist/article_074be0fe-e7dc-4924-920d-7a247d655514.html

Report by Josh Copitch of KSBW: https://www. ksbw.com/article/person-struck-by-semi-truck-in-salinas/69244696

#BikeTooter #TrafficViolence #TrafficCollision #trucks #bicycles #MontereyCounty #PublicSafety #ActiveTransportation #cycling #biking

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After 13 yrs on Twitter, @bikemonterey stopped posting on that platform in Nov 2022.
We are also no longer posting on Meta platforms; we do have a @bikemonterey Instagram account, but it refers people to this Mastodon account.
Although we set up a @bikemonterey BlueSky acct, it likewise refers to this Mastodon acct.

When we did some updates today to Summer Bike Buzz https://bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-sum mer-2025-news-from-bicycling-monterey.html, we pointed out what a chief information officer of a Monterey County transportation agency posted on Mastodon on July 6, 2025:
“Change isn’t easy. And transformational change requires perseverance and dedication. It doesn’t have to be fanatical. Honestly medium-level relentless will do.” https://mastodon.world/@NoRomBasic/114 808599939418491

#SystemsChange #SocialMedia #Mastodon #democracy #PowerToThePeople

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After 13 yrs on Twitter, @bikemonterey stopped posting on that platform in Nov 2022.
We are also no longer posting on Meta platforms; we do have a @bikemonterey Instagram account, but it refers people to this Mastodon account.
Although we set up a @bikemonterey BlueSky acct, it likewise refers to this Mastodon acct.

When we did some updates today to Summer Bike Buzz https://bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-sum mer-2025-news-from-bicycling-monterey.html, we pointed out what a chief information officer of a Monterey County transportation agency posted on Mastodon on July 6, 2025:
“Change isn’t easy. And transformational change requires perseverance and dedication. It doesn’t have to be fanatical. Honestly medium-level relentless will do.” https://mastodon.world/@NoRomBasic/114 808599939418491

#SystemsChange #SocialMedia #Mastodon #democracy #PowerToThePeople