Road Safety Audit along Laguna Blvd in Elk Grove.

Everyone noted their observations much like last time. A 2-mile walk in about 2 hours.

We met at Sunriver Park in Rancho Cordova in the early evening.

SABA’s new Executive Director, Becky Garrow, was the tour leader. There were riders from 50 Corridor TMA, SABA, and American River Bike Patrol.

Just a 10-mile ride on the American River Bike Trail. Becky shared lots of information about the surrounding area, bridges, and the American River. Quite interesting.

RSA = Road Safety Audit for the SacRT Safe Routes to Transit grant. This bus just happened to be nearby, it was not a part of our audit.

City of Folsom traffic engineers, representatives from Civic Thread, DKS Consulting, and SABA (me) walked along streets with high injury or fatalities statistics and noted hazards or obstructions to safely walking or biking to access public transit.

E Bidwell St: five lanes wide, fast-moving traffic, no bike lanes, up to 1 1/2 miles between pedestrian crossings means improvement needed.

Debrief at the end.

On Friday evening I rode sweep for BarbaraL on a ride featuring the Velo Lancer program at Cordova High School which is sponsored by the American River Bike Patrol.

Lots of Patrollers on this ride, just one veteran Velo Lancer, and Charlie!

This local advocacy group meets monthly. I was invited for a brief discussion about the Active Transportation Commission annual report.

Barbara and I went to dinner at Rich and Cindy’s to let the American River Bike Patrollers know about an upcoming program at Cordova High School called Velo Lancers. Barbara has been recruited to co-lead the bicycle skills portion and I will help her as much as I am able.

Rich wanted to buy this house as soon as he saw this extra space in the 2-car garage – perfect bike shop space.

If you only need space for one car in the garage, you have room for a lot of bicycles.

in Rancho Cordova.

Barbara and I set up a Bicycle Safety Station. She’s really good at reaching out and

SMUD (Sacramento’s electricity provider) has a year-long leadership team which raises money, finds a good cause, and follows through with an activity or donation. This year’s team chose to purchase 50 new bikes, helmets and locks to donate to 5th and 6th graders at Castori Elementary in Del Paso Heights. SABA mechanics helped the SMUD team assemble and transport the bikes. Today, the bikes were distributed.

I neglected to take a picture of my team of LCIs: Joel and Charlie, and Leo who volunteered. We set up a shorts skills course. We also taught about 20 kids HOW to ride their bike. Many of them learned quickly. If they have good balance, you can run along side for a short distance, give them a shove, and .. they’re off, smiling all the way. At the end, each kid got a lock and parked their bikes along the fence by classroom. Such a great event. Many happy people.

I represented SABA at this “pop-up” event at the light rail station in Rancho Cordova as part of SacRT’s Safe Routes to Transit project.