The City of Arcata will host this month's Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) webinar topic - Shared Lane Markings (Sharrows). Click here for more information.

The webinar will be held Wednesday, April 15th, from noon to one at the Public Works office at City Hall.  Let us know if you are planning on attending so we can help the city plan for the right group size.

In a recent piece in the Times Standard, freight rail advocate Dan Hauser claims that the process of railbanking, i.e., preserving a railroad right-of-way by putting it to another use like trail development, results in the loss of easements over private property that then have to be re-acquired.  He suggests that this would make a railbanked trail between Arcata and Eureka near-impossible due to the many privately held easements in that stretch.  He's dead wrong, of course, and here is our letter that just ran in the Times Standard setting the record straight:

A group of us biked to the Caltrans 101 Eureka Arcata Corridor Improvement Project Open House last Wednesday to further assess what was on offer, in particular with the 2 new alternatives recently added to 3 previous alternatives.  One member of our group rode the corridor for the first time.

I just couldn't resist posting this video.  Enjoy.

If anyone is interested in helping us do this type of thing to envision Bus Rapid Transit up here in Humboldt, please get in touch.

The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District just posted its final business plan for the Redwood Marine Terminal.

Green Wheels is excited to announce our first Bike Lane Inventory for the City of Arcata is finally complete. After a year and a half of volunteer effort the Green Wheels team has created something to be truly proud of. The Inventory was begun after members began noticing discrepancies in the lane repair process throughout Arcata. This Inventory takes a holistic approach to understanding the current state of bike lanes throughout Arcata by rating lane segments across the City and using geographic analysis to assess where the greatest need for maintenance exists. The criteria we used considers the Caltrans standards put forth in the Arcata Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan and implements totally original qualitative analysis that allows participating cyclists to give input on the quality of riding for each lane segment. Check out all these details and more in the full color pdf.