The odometer on an Urban Arrow cargo bike indicates 11,000 miles travelled.

Rolled past 11,000 miles on ours a few weeks ago!

Your E-Bike Is on the Line — Help Us Stop AB 1557 We're reaching out to ask for your help opposing AB 1557 — a bill that would fundamentally change what an e-bike can be in our state. AB 1557 would reduce the speed limit for Class 1 and Class 2 e-bikes from 20 mph to 16 mph and cap continuous motor power at 250 watts versus 750 watts, making California an outlier with regulations found nowhere else in North America. This bill is a misguided response to a real problem — unregulated electric mopeds with no meaningful speed limits, often sold online by out-of-state retailers directly to children. Rather than targeting those bad actors, AB 1557 penalizes responsible riders (like you) and reputable retailers (like us) already operating within the law. The bill has a hearing on April 13, but we need to keep the momentum going. Please help by voicing your opposition: Submit a written comment opposing the bill no later than April 6th. To help, we've created a letter template you can download and modify. Important: Comments must be submitted through the California Legislature’s advocate portal, which requires a basic registration but is a straightforward process. Contact your Assembly Member today by phone or email and tell them that you oppose this bill. If you can, join us April 13 at 2:30pm (come early) in Sacramento to testify against the bill at the Transportation Committee hearing. Location: Legislative Office Building at 1021 O Street, Room 1100, Sacramento. We'll be taking the train and we'd love for you to join. This is a critical moment, and your voice will help ensure lawmakers understand how this bill would affect everyday riders across California. Have questions? Email us at advocacy@newwheel.net.

For the record, I'm not making this up. Bike shops are talking about some of these bills in very serious terms.

Call your legislator today and tell them that legal e-bikes are not the problem.

I wrote her 344 words and hit the limit on the contact form on her website. I'll call later, too,

Aw crap, my Assemblywoman, Mia Bonta, is one of the co-authors of AB 1557. 😭

Keep in mind that Trump's threats communicated in his tweets are themselves war crimes.

This is dumb because, in CA, if you don't like a separated class IV bikeway you can legally leave it for any reason and ride in traffic.

Class II bike lanes are legally *more* restrictive because you can only leave them if you're making a left turn, passing, avoiding obstacles or turning right.

Why not all three? Build housing along San Pablo Avenue and also at the Golden Gate Fields site along with a waterfront park.

This has got to be the least ambitious, most foolishly anodyne plan for this site.

California’s set to lose at least four seats in Congress in 2030. What are we even doing, here?

Albany has a NIMBY lock on their zoning so the State needs to step in and ensure housing gets built there.

The DC Metro

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi.

The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

That is clearly a Tetris block.

Final, FINAL Vote for Emeryville's 40th Street Cycletrack - Bike East Bay Speak up in support of Emeryville's 40th/Shellmound cycletrack project and help get it over the finish line and approved for construction.

New action alert— this time for Emeryville's 40th Street Cycletrack. The final FINAL vote is set for next Tues. There are great improvements (2-way protected biking, dedicated bus lanes, paratransit pick up zones, etc) but ofc: pushback. Learn more/email comments at bikeeastbay.org/event/final-...

I am *shocked* that the people spending $150M to build a new freeway on-ramp aren’t considering the interests of those who walk and bike.

A screenshot of a strava.com cycling heatmap showing lines indicating that users have recorded bike rides on a section of US 101 near Atascadero, CA. A red arrow points at the US 101 freeway.

Strava cycling heatmap appears to show that people do ride US 101 in that area.

A sign reads "No pedestrians motor-driven cycles" at the onramp from El Camino Real to US-101 in Atascadero, CA in a screen capture from Google Street View.

Not that I'd recommend it, but I think that might be one of those sections of US 101 where you can legally ride a bike on the freeway.

Bart Tube Construction, 1967
The over 50 sections of the Bart Tube were constructed at Bethlehem Steel at Potrero Hill, Pier 70. The paint outline at Crane Cove Park doesn’t do them justice. #sfhistory #sfmemory

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The sun won’t rise until after 9am in late December in Vancouver. No thanks.

Headline from the Primetimer reads: New clip from Pixar's Hoppers highlights a girl's mission to stop the mayor's habitat destruction. A recent clip of Pixar's Hoppers showed two beavers, potentially King George and Mabel Tanaka, meeting with the mayor and asking him to stop a highway construction project that would ruin the habitat of many animals.

Disney and Pixar's Hoppers — in theaters March 6 — welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social

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As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Urgent dispatch from the desert: it is bunny bullfighting season

Screenshot of a data table from data.transportation.gov comparing cost per passenger mile, cost per passenger and farebox recovery ratio for BART and SF Bay Ferries.

According to the NTD (2024 data):
Farebox recovery for SF Bay ferries is ~21%, while it's 24% for BART.
Cost per passenger mile is $1.71 for ferries, $3.37 for BART.
Cost per passenger is $25.26 for ferries, $18.07 for BART.

"It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage."

A fence blocks the path to Lake Merritt.

It would be nice if the Lake Merritt Channel path actually connected to Lake Merritt.

I'm a gravel noob, so that hill route looks *legit*. The McDonell descent, in particular, gets me white-knuckling my brakes the whole way down.

Hypocrisy is a feature of fascism, not a bug.

I know most people don’t spend a lot of time with kids, so they only know what a 5-year-old is in theory. He is still learning his letters,to count to 100, spell his full name, and mom’s phone number. His mom still baths him, and now he’s locked away in a concentration camp without a familiar face.

A patch of orange lane delineators are packed together in a field in Alameda

Time to harvest the lane delineators.