Back to School, Bike to School!

 Updates: 

• Parents! School is back is session, which means the return of the dreaded school drop off and pickup lines. Everybody hates the traffic, including parents. One way to be part of the solution is to walk or bike to school with your kids, if or when you can. Walking or biking to school is great for kids' health! Even if it's not possible every day, try for one day a week. My daughter and I used to ride to school every Monday when she was in Middle School and High School. It was great parent-child quality time! 
• Farmers market ride! If you're interested in joining us on our (very informal) farmer's market rides every Saturday morning from Sierra Madre to Victory Park, meet on Highland Ave in front of Sierra Madre Elementary by 8:00AM. Email John for info: boyonabike62@gmail.com.

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New 2-way protected bike lanes on Union Street in Pasadena! Join us for the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Pasadena City Hall, Saturday Sept. 9! (Photo W. Reutimann)

• Saturday Sept. 9: Union Street Protected Bike Lanes ribbon cutting, 9:00 AM, Pasadena City Hall. Ride on the protected bike lanes follows. 
• Sunday Sept. 24: I'm hosting an informal "meet & greet" with Assembly district 41 candidate Jed Leano, 11:00AM, Sierra Vista Park picnic area. Jed has a strong track record of supporting active transportation as a Councilmember in Claremont, and is running for the open seat in Sierra Madre's Assembly district. It's a great opportunity to meet him and ask questions! (see flyer)
  
  
  
  
• October: Diana Kohne is working on a "bike, walk, and roll to school day" at Sierra Madre Elementary in early October and promises to share a flyer when ready.
  

Hot Links: 

• Electrek shows how much money riding an ebike saved one woman.  
• The New York Times recently ran a series of articles focused on potential dangers of ebikes (thanks for sharing, Bill P.), but the framing of the articles were misguided, in my view. For one thing, the crashes discussed in the articles focused on ebike riders who were killed or injured when they were hit by drivers of cars. Yet the authors' framed the problem as ebikes. The articles also overlooked the essential role of safe infrastructure that keeps all road users safer, or the benefits of ebikes. Ebikes are an amazing, zero emissions mobility tool that are growing in popularity. We should definitely expand bike safety programs in schools and in our community, but safer infrastructure is absolutely necessary to accommodate this new mobility alternative.