Thanks to Rob Christensen for this post:

Update on the 101
The 101 Eureka-Arcata Improvement Project is probably the largest transportation infrastructure investment planned for the Humboldt Bay region over the next decade.  The scale of this highway project, which includes a new highway interchange at Indianola Cutoff will influence the way we travel between and within Eureka and Arcata for decades and will affect the availability of funding for other street improvements.

Green Wheels will host a holiday community bike ride before Arts Arcata on Friday December 11 at 5:30pm starting from the Arcata Plaza. All ages welcome! Bring a helmet, lights, festivity, and friends.

Monday November 16,  6:00 - 7:30 p.m., Eureka at the Wharfinger Building
Tuesday November 17, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m., McKinleyville, Azalea Hall
Wednesday November 18, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m., Fortuna, Monday Club
This is an important opportunity for you to provide input on the Humboldt County Regional Trails Master Plan. HCAOG would like to hear from Green Wheels supporters like you. Show your support for connective trails that get you to your destination and provide a scenic and safe place to recreate. There will be maps that illustrate the existing and proposed trail network. Don't miss this opportunity. Have your friends and family join you.
You can travel by transit with the Arcata contingent.
If you cannot attend the first set of workshops, but would like to provide input, please email your comments to hcaog@pacbell.net.

This Halloween, Green Wheels participated in the Arcata Main Street trick or treat event around the Plaza.  We handed out healthy and fun snacks to trick or treaters and decked out our "monster bikes" for a ride around town.  Check out the fun pictures!

I have found out that PSU's Center for Transportation Studies up here in Portland has a seminar series.

Here's a  link to a presentation by Copenhagen bicycle planner Niels Jensen.

Their goal is 50% mode share by bike, and to get there, their main carrot is infrastructure including cycle tracks, but their bicycle plan includes sticks of parking pricing.

It's easy to forget that this is a big part of the reason why a lot of us ride bikes for transportation.

This week, the fall issue of the Community Wheel magazine will be in the North Coast Journal, and elsewhere around town. It is already available online. The theme is “Back to School, Free Range Kids.” Thanks to all the volunteers, interns, advertisers and members who make this publication possible, so we can educate Humboldt County on opportunities for healthy transportation.

Join us Thursday, Oct. 8, for the release party at Gallagher's in Eureka with Boot Stompin’ music by The Muckrakers. Details are here.

Remember, you can be a part of the Community Wheel by contributing articles or photos, helping with editing, advertising, or by supporting us financially. Join online, send in the membership form on the back of the ‘Wheel, or contact us to volunteer or advertise.

Traffic Enforcement for Bicyclist Safety from Chicago Bicycle Program on Vimeo.

Many motorists don't know how to share the road with cyclists, maybe drivers education classes should include videos like this one. Nice work Chicago PD.

The agenda for Humboldt County Association of Governement's (HCAOG) Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) indicates that Caltrans has chosen Alternative 3A as its preferred alternative for the 101 Eureka Arcata Corridor Improvement Project.

Item 4 says:

EUREKA-ARCATA U.S. 101 CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT PROJECT PROGRESS/EXPENSE REPORT (Encl)

Background: Caltrans Project Manager, Kim Floyd will provide the Committee with an update on the Progress Report for the Eureka-Arcata U.S. 101 Corridor project which outlines expenditures, actions, milestones, and Alternative 3A as Caltrans preferred alternative.

One of the modified alternatives, Alternative 3A includes a ~$15 million compact diamond interchange at Indianola Cutoff, and a half signal at Airport Road making preventing vehicles from returning to Eureka from Jacobs Avenue without first proceeding north to Indianola Cutoff before turning around.  This option costs twice as much "STIP" dollars as Alternative 1A, leaving less money for road improvements in our communities.

It remains to be seen if any mitigations for non-motorized users will be included to make up for the loss of connectivity when median crossings are closed at Bayside Cutoff, Bracut, Mid-City Motorworld and Airport Road for those wishing to return to Eureka.

Project manager Kim Floyd stated in an email that the Final EIR for the project will be completed next summer.