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Why I Ride: A Conversation With Jessica Jacobson

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|Date: August 04, 2019
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Why I Ride: A Conversation With Jessica Jacobson

by Lisa Montanaro of The Bike Campaign Jessica Jacobson is a newcomer to Davis, but not a newcomer to bik ...

by Lisa Montanaro of The Bike Campaign Jessica Jacobson is a newcomer to Davis, but not a newcomer to bike riding. As a kid growing up in the Midwest, Jessica first started riding a bike as a means of ...

August 04, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: On Struggling Suburbs and Declining Bicycle Legacy

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|Date: July 29, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: On Struggling Suburbs and Declining Bicycle Legacy

This morning’s column puts together two different thoughts into one column. The Bee’s analysis of suburb ...

This morning’s column puts together two different thoughts into one column. The Bee’s analysis of suburbs and housing. and Bob Dunning’s seeming tunnel vision of the decline of Davis' bicycling place ...

July 29, 2019
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Why I Ride: A Conversation With Clark Fitzgerald

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|Date: July 06, 2019
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Why I Ride: A Conversation With Clark Fitzgerald

by Lisa Montanaro of The Bike Campaign Clark Fitzgerald first started riding a bike on a consistent basis ...

by Lisa Montanaro of The Bike Campaign Clark Fitzgerald first started riding a bike on a consistent basis in 2007. He came back from Afghanistan, where he had been deployed as a member of the military ...

July 06, 2019
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Pedaling Love: Life Viewed from the Vantage Point of Two Wheels

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|Date: May 31, 2019
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Pedaling Love: Life Viewed from the Vantage Point of Two Wheels

by Lisa Montanaro In the summer of 2012, I relocated from New York to Northern California, specifically, ...

by Lisa Montanaro In the summer of 2012, I relocated from New York to Northern California, specifically, to the college town of Davis. There are many things that make Davis a fabulous place to live: f ...

May 31, 2019
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My View: Mace Before the Redesign Was Dangerous for Kids and Bicyclists

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|Date: April 27, 2019
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My View: Mace Before the Redesign Was Dangerous for Kids and Bicyclists

Following my commentary on Mace from Thursday in which we called for El Macero residents to pay for their ...

Following my commentary on Mace from Thursday in which we called for El Macero residents to pay for their fair share of the roadway revisions that they were demanding, I received a letter in response ...

April 27, 2019
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Bike Campaign Swings into Gear to Reduce Traffic and Congestion

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|Date: April 26, 2019
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Bike Campaign Swings into Gear to Reduce Traffic and Congestion

With L Street under construction for the foreseeable future, Fifth Street has taken on much more congesti ...

With L Street under construction for the foreseeable future, Fifth Street has taken on much more congestion than normal. The downtown remains impacted by parking shortages during peak hours. Is there ...

April 26, 2019
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City Proposes Revisions for Mace Blvd. Corridor

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|Date: April 19, 2019
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City Proposes Revisions for Mace Blvd. Corridor

After several public meetings with citizen complaints about the redesigned Mace Boulevard, staff is recom ...

After several public meetings with citizen complaints about the redesigned Mace Boulevard, staff is recommending that council proceed with further design revisions for the corridor which were referred ...

April 19, 2019
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Why I Ride – Rich Rifkin

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|Date: April 04, 2019
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Why I Ride – Rich Rifkin

“I love to ride for the health!” said Davis Enterprise political columnist and former associate editor fo ...

“I love to ride for the health!” said Davis Enterprise political columnist and former associate editor for The Economist, Rich Rifkin. Living out in the country far from downtown Davis, a lot of Rifki ...

April 04, 2019
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Why I Ride – Iben Wilson

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|Date: March 07, 2019
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Why I Ride – Iben Wilson

By Jennifer Ann Gordon As a child in Denmark, Iben Wilson rode her bike everywhere...to see friends, to t ...

By Jennifer Ann Gordon As a child in Denmark, Iben Wilson rode her bike everywhere...to see friends, to the movies. She loved the independence biking brought to her. Wilson’s love affair with Davis be ...

March 07, 2019
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Why I Ride – Koen Van Rompay

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|Date: March 02, 2019
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Why I Ride – Koen Van Rompay

By Jennifer Ann Gordon “I’m very impressed with what The Bike Campaign is doing,” said UC Davis research ...

By Jennifer Ann Gordon “I’m very impressed with what The Bike Campaign is doing,” said UC Davis research professor Koen Van Rompay. “I usually have students or postdocs living with me who need bikes. ...

March 02, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Those Dam Street Beavers

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|Date: February 27, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Those Dam Street Beavers

By Jennifer Ann Gordon When I first moved to Davis, I wondered who or what was creating the ubiquitous mo ...

By Jennifer Ann Gordon When I first moved to Davis, I wondered who or what was creating the ubiquitous mounds of vegetation in the gutters. I reasoned that it couldn’t be the residents, for who would ...

February 27, 2019
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The Bike Campaign Gives Zigo Cargo Bike to Empower Yolo

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|Date: February 26, 2019
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The Bike Campaign Gives Zigo Cargo Bike to Empower Yolo

(From Press Release) - Empower Yolo provides community outreach and educational programs about available ...

(From Press Release) - Empower Yolo provides community outreach and educational programs about available resources to promote health, stability, and self-sufficiency for individuals and families. The ...

February 26, 2019
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Why I Ride: Loretta Moore

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|Date: February 05, 2019
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Why I Ride: Loretta Moore

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Loretta Moore pours her heart and soul into her job as the Program Coordinator for ...

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Loretta Moore pours her heart and soul into her job as the Program Coordinator for the City of Davis’s “Street Smarts/Safe Routes to School” program. Moore is a certified League ...

February 05, 2019
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Why I Ride: Jonathan and Rhea Bartlett

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|Date: January 28, 2019
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Why I Ride: Jonathan and Rhea Bartlett

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Jonathan Bartlett, a business process analyst with Yolo County Health and Human S ...

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Jonathan Bartlett, a business process analyst with Yolo County Health and Human Services, began working with The Bike Campaign founder, Maria Contreras Tebbutt, on the Safe Rou ...

January 28, 2019
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Why I Ride: Wesley Yates

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|Date: January 23, 2019
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Why I Ride: Wesley Yates

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Wesley Yates, 91, is going strong. An avid skier and cyclist, and a lifelong outdo ...

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Wesley Yates, 91, is going strong. An avid skier and cyclist, and a lifelong outdoorsman, Yates recently purchased an electric road bicycle, or e-bike, from Freewheeler Bicycle ...

January 23, 2019
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Why I Ride: Scott Thomsen

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|Date: January 22, 2019
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Why I Ride: Scott Thomsen

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Scott Thomsen, Principal of Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School in Davis, commu ...

By Jennifer Ann Gordon Scott Thomsen, Principal of Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School in Davis, commutes to work from Woodland most days, rain or shine, on his e-bike, which can reach 27 m.p.h. He ...

January 22, 2019
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Third Street Improvement Project is Almost Completed – Years Later

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|Date: December 15, 2018
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Third Street Improvement Project is Almost Completed – Years Later

The Third Street Improvement Project is almost completed – if it seems like it has been a long time – you ...

The Third Street Improvement Project is almost completed – if it seems like it has been a long time – you would be correct. The road has been blocked off for over a year, but the project has been in ...

December 15, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Parking Shmarking!! Accessing Downtown.

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|Date: April 10, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Parking Shmarking!! Accessing Downtown.

by Todd Edelman Yesterday the Davis Vanguard asked the nine candidates for City Council: “The city of Dav ...

by Todd Edelman Yesterday the Davis Vanguard asked the nine candidates for City Council: “The city of Davis will be embarking on its update of the core area specific plan. Describe your vision for th ...

April 10, 2018
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Guest Commentary: How Community Design Can Improve Your Health

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|Date: April 01, 2018
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Guest Commentary: How Community Design Can Improve Your Health

By Judy Corbett It’s a surprise to many, but there is a relationship between the way a community is plann ...

By Judy Corbett It’s a surprise to many, but there is a relationship between the way a community is planned and the overall health and life span of the people who live there! This is something to kee ...

April 01, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Transportation Picture Summed Up in One Chart

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 12, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Transportation Picture Summed Up in One Chart

This is the single most powerful chart on travel in Davis. It comes from the UC Davis Travel Survey and ...

This is the single most powerful chart on travel in Davis. It comes from the UC Davis Travel Survey and what it finds is rather profound while, at the same time, almost obvious. If you are concerned ...

March 12, 2018
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