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Puente exceeded our $35,00 goal, thanks to you.
Thank you to the more than 171 individuals and businesses that donated $36,544.75 through Silicon Valley Gives.
Many thanks to the anonymous donor whose $35,000 challenge grant inspired and motivated us. We are also grateful to our friends at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation for their steadfast support over many years.
All of us on the Puente team are so humbled by the generosity of our beloved community. Again, our deepest thanks.
]]>Another lie is that the Safety and Mobility Study was community based. No way. It was set up from the start to push the county’s agenda for enlargement and urbanization of ways of getting around on the midcoast, and the expensive consultants hired to play the county’s tune were from out of the area.
The entire process proposed to plan this first 2/3 of a mile with virtually no major obstacles is to cost $500,000? Spending that amount to lay out a route any junior high-schooler could delineate by walking from one end to the other will force an enormously over-developed paved road as a result of the (unnecessary) consultant’s work in order to justify the planning expense. (Did no one learn from the paved mistake of the now CCT on Mirada Surf West?) So the characteristics of this proposed “MMT” project were determined with the application by the county for the sales tax funds, and all public input going forward during the entire sequence of development will have zero effect on any major aspect, as has been the case with every county “trail” (really road) project in recent years.
I hope the MCC will reject this charade (sister of charette) and let the county know we want projects appropriate to our area and not determined by over-paid cement-heads in Redwood City.
]]>A representative from R.A.T.S. will give an informational presentation at the April 23 Midcoast Community Council meeting.
Reckitt Benckiser, the parent company of rodenticide manufacturer d-CON, has filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to stop the recently approved restrictions. http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2014/d-Con-03-31-2014.html
]]>Yes, Julia was using her brakes. The pedestrians were reporters who were there for the event. We were the only bikes on the trail and they kept a safe distance. The vehicle is with the construction crew. They were still working on the trail.
I think the speed limit is their way of saying, “Don’t be unsafe.”
The trail was resurfaced.
]]>All bait should be set out in locked bait boxes that children can’t open, in areas where pets do not have access. Bait is harmful to pets and children, so extreme care is needed with its use. Small infestations are sometimes manageable using traps. Rat traps may also injure pets and children, so care is needed with those as well. Electronic traps work for one rodent at a time but frequently do not last very long.
]]>Is there a shuttle that can take cyclists back to the north end if they’re not up to riding uphill that far?
Welcome back, Coastsider!!!
]]>As most separate organizations go, the right hand never talks to the left, or in this case, they did & maybe the warning signs will all be digital, like the speed limit signs.
]]>I noticed that the traffic signal at the south end of the tunnel has been red a few times, and the traffic in the tunnel in not use to stopping. Be on the look out for stopped traffic in the tunnel is all I’ll say.
Have fun.
]]>1.) So, was the sound in the video Julia applying her bicycle brakes on the downhill portion? Are motorcycles even allowed?
2.) Who were the pedestrians that seemed to be standing around in the bike lane as she came down the hill? (SHEEZE!)
3.) Do most bicycles have speedometers now… and if not, how will the riders know if they are actually exceeding the 15 MPH posted speed limit?
4.) Will there be rangers or Sheriffs Deputies giving out speeding tickets?
5.) Why was there a vehicle driving up hill in the opposite direction in the bike lane?
6.) Does it seem to be re-surfaced, or did they simply patch up the rough spots?
7.) What did you think of the K-rails?
The County is motivated by the major energy conservation benefits and related cost savings. The light spectrum of moonlight also has appeal. I notice the Air Force recently changed their string of streetlights on Pillar Point to LED, and the difference is quite noticeable in the distant view - much less horizontal-directed glare and more natural color lighting the landscape. I believe the streetlighting at the tunnel portals is also LED.
]]>MCC March 12 meeting post has links to slide presentation and approved Council comment letter, as well as background documents.
http://www.midcoastcommunitycouncil.org/home/2014/3/8/mcc-meeting-march-12-7pm.html
Yes, it’s highly destructive. All the energy and materials that are going into the urban development? Why? Development of what could be restored to a more natural setting? Why? A proper trail for experiencing “San Mateo County’s headlands” would have reduced the artificial footprint and used natural surfaces, the better to experience the striking geologic features of the place.
I have walked about half of the entire California coastline and have seen a number of mistakes made that wasted money and degraded access to natural features and experiences by over-developing segments of the CCT, but this mile and a third is the ugliest newly created trail segment in Northern California and among the few most wasteful of citizens’ money I have seen, the Cowell Ranch spending binge notwithstanding.
]]>Dr. Kim Cobb gets it, like virtually all other scientists considering water issues for the past 60 years: Water agencies need to plan for adequate water during the driest periods to be expected. Of course, this doesn’t sit well with cornucopians and growth nuts.
]]>This is because they are totally immersed in a blindered, environmentally destructive, urban-development mindset for the midcoast, resulting in paved roads through open space rather than trails and bikepaths commensurate with our coastal setting and character. So immersed that they can’t even see the ugliness in what they are doing to the coastside. Even though the “parallel trail” is primarily for an alternative way to get from place to place on the midcoast for citizens of all ages, and not for sightseeing, it does not need to become part of the pro-overdevelopment, “pave-it-and-paint-it-green” absurdity that benefits only county employees, employees of the state and other granting agencies, and the contractors who bulldoze the trails into a hard-scaped reality.
]]>Thank you Don Horsley!
]]>TA staff gave their report on their recommendations per the adopted point system. Some Board members spoke up advocating for some solution to fund the “Coastside trail”. Others wanted to be sure the top 10 projects stayed funded. The focus for a solution was on finding additional funding. It sounded promising to me. They will make their decision at their April 3 meeting.
(I made a mistake in the original post—our trail is only 0.1 point behind the last project chosen!)
]]>I especially like the bottom sepia of the top set. It looks like one of those wonderful Japanese woodblock prints. Nicely done. Cheri
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