HCAOG finally has the Regional Housing Needs Allocation process on their agenda.  The meeting is tomorrow (Thursday Night), 8:35pm, at the Wharfinger.  This is the process by which targets are set for

Look for it in the North Coast Journal this week, as well as in your favorite coffee shop, and online.  This quarter's theme is transportation culture, with a smattering of bike safety coverage.  Enjoy, and please shoot us some feedback about what you love or hate about it.

How Motorists & Cyclists Can More Safely Share Roads & Highways

(From Scott Kelly, Humboldt Bay Bicycle Commuters Association President)

December 8th from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The forum will be at the D Street Neighborhood Center in Arcata, located at the corner of 14th and D Street.

The forum is FREE, and snacks and drinks will be provided!

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.

Do you remember how Google Transit used to show lines that traveled straight between bus stop locations, even right across the bay (I called it the trans-Humboldt Bay tunnel)?

No more. [Click the image to read more.]

Below is a note from Rick with the Humboldt Bay Bicycle Commuters Association regarding the case of Greg Jennings, a bicycle commmuter who was struck and killed on 299 between Glendale and Blue Lake in August.

Note: I borrowed the title for this post from Joe Hughes's blog.

The reason I bought an iPhone was an early-October rumor that the Google Transit trip planner, and walking directions, were going to become part of the iPhone's mapping application with the 2.2 software update.

Sure enough, in late November, it happened.

And, it's great.

At September's Transit Camp Bay Area, I met Simon Ilyushchenko from Google, who was analyzing fatal U.S. collision data.  He recently posted some of his findings and I thought I'd pass them along.

You can get everything from The Days are Numbered blog: Fatal US car collisions, 2005-2007.  The Google Earth view (linked on the page) has separate layers that show pedestrian and bicycle accidents.