April 22 to May 5, 2012 - Bike, walk, carpool, transit – drive less, have fun, and save the planet
Burlingame, Cupertino, East Palo Alto, Los Altos/Hills, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Morgan Hill, Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Carlos, Sunnyvale
Live or work in Santa Clara County? You can help save Caltrain – key meetingtoday
As Drive Less Challenge participants may know, Caltrain is facing a financial crisis. Service cuts have been proposed that would severely gut the usefulness of Caltrain as a transit service. Last week I attended a meeting with a couple of elected officials and local transit advocates to identify opportunities to prevent these drastic cuts. What I found at the meeting [...]
Challenge Summary
I enjoyed the challenge in that it allowed me to really see how I get around. I logged all transportation for this challenge, which also included 152 miles of recreational bike riding, as this is part of my exercise and social activities. I traveled 640 miles during the challenge, which is more that I would normally. This is due to [...]
Way of Life : )
My mother didn’t learn to drive till I was in high school. So walking or riding our bikes to school was a way of life : ) For the past three years our daughter was part of a walking pool to Laurel School. We looked forward to our early morning walks and we were sad to have to give them [...]
Riding even more
What I like about the Drive Less Challenge is that it makes you think about every trip. I try to do this any way but this helps to make me do more. April 29th there was an Acterra board meeting at the Arastradero gateway facility. So I rode my bike. I would be 9:00 or later returning so I made [...]
Biking to Work = Fun, Fast, Fit
As a long-time bike commuter, mountain biker, and bicycling fanatic, my Acterra Be The Change project is focused on encouraging more of my Oracle colleagues here in Redwood Shores to bike to work. My project, Oracle Bicycle Friday, is a FUN, FAST way to get FIT. It’s like Casual Fridays, but with bicycles! Kickoff is Friday, May 7th and every [...]
