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!

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

This morning I was making breakfast and a great story came on NPR Morning Edition about cyclists taking back the streets in Tijuana, Mexico - over 300 participants every Wednesday night helping to increase awareness of cycling - so cool!  Here is the link. 

We’ve been staying in South East Portland with my in-laws the last week or two in a neighborhood called Ladd’s Addition. I wanted to post about it because it is a beautiful walkable neighborhood with plenty of connectivity that works with an unusual street lay-out.

I went to the courthouse this morning to testify on the county letter to the NCRA commenting on their Rail-With-Trail draft guidelines, and had a little run-in with security.

It seems that forks are not permitted in the County Courthouse anymore.  They found one as my bag went through the metal detector and told me so.

"You can take it back outside and leave it in your car," one of the guards said.

"I took the bus here.  Is there any way you can hold on to it, and I can come pick it up on my way out?"

As an avid backcountry skier and sustainable transportation nut, I have often pondered the possibility of doing a little ski trip by bicycle. This guy beat me to it.

A lot of blame has been laid at the feet of "big oil" for artificially inflating the price of gas. Well, oil companies in the refinining business are starting to get squeezed between the high price of oil on one side, and the threat of demand destruction on the other side. The resulting tight margin means that if oil continues to increase in price as it has in the last five years, the price of gasoline has nowhere to go but up, and much more steeply than it has so far.

Join Green Wheels Executive Director, Chris Rall, and Alternative Rock DJ, Jen Savage, on KSLG 94.1 FM, 11am on Mondays for the Anti-Traffic Report, where we talk about what's up with balanced and sustainable transportation on the North Coast.

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