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• What's "Growing" On? Bike Tour July, 11.  One of the workshops for the Common Table-Urban Ag Fest (6/24/09)
• Act now!  County needs safer streets.  Let your Sacramento County Supervisor know the county needs complete streets.  Use the sample letter.  Personalize at will.  Or cut and paste the sample and e-mail a message. Send an e-mail to all supervisors or find their smiling faces and pick and choose e-mail addressses on the County Board Web site.  (6/3/09)
• Know someplace that needs a sign for biyclists?  Tell us.  Signs could be directional, warning or informational.  We're making a list and will be providing it to government officials.  (6/3/09)
• Complete Streets The Road to Safer, Healthier, Livable Communities.  At this July 10, one-day Local Government Commission workshop you’ll learn about the laws, policies, measures and financing mechanisms that are now on the books to help complete our streets in the Sacramento region. Registration now open! (5/20/09)
• City of Sacramento is offering free bike racks, including installation on city right of way, to businesses. Focus is on the central city. You can ask business owners where you shop to install a rack and refer them to the city's Web site for .more information. (6/3/09)
• The Squeaky Wheel June Issue  (6/10/09)
• Read the case for a larger federal investment in bicycling and walking, "Active Transportation for America."  Check out the Connecting Sacramento case statement outlining what we might do here and case statements from nearly 50 other communities.  (10/21/08)
• New law, new fringe benefit for bike commuters:  $20 a month to bike to work!  See FAQ, League of American Bicyclists (10/9/08)
• Court stops Highway 50 widening.  Caltrans didn't do homework.  Press release and judge's ruling.  (7/17/08)
• Representative Doris Matsui introduces Complete Streets legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives (5/9/08)
  • Matsui's press release
  • National Complete Streets press release
  • Sacramento Complete Streets Coalition release
  • Bee Backseat Driver covers Complete Street
• City of Sacramento Southeast area bicycle and pedestrian access study information (4/21/08)

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