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Lodi hosts first Bike to Work Week
Cassidy Thomas, left, of REI, explains what to look for when performing maintenance on a bicycle during the San Joaquin Council of Governments Commute Connection’s Bike to Work week on School Street on Monday, May 16, 2011.
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Lodi hosts first Bike to Work Week
San Joaquin Council of Governments Commute Connection held a Bike to Work event in Downtown Lodi on Monday, May 16, 2011. The week-long event encourages commuters to walk or ride a bicycle to work.
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Lodi hosts first Bike to Work Week
John Nunes, left, of Lodi, fills out a pledge to walk or ride his bicycle for San Joaquin Council of Governments Commute Connection’s Bike to Work week, on Monday, May 16, 2011.
Dan Evans/News-Sentinel
Lodi hosts first Bike to Work Week
San Joaquin Council of Governments Commute Connection held a Bike to Work event in Downtown Lodi on Monday, May 16, 2011. The week-long Bike to Work event encourages commuters to walk or ride a bicycle to work.
- Ways to make a difference in Central Valley’s air quality
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- Ride a bike, take public transit or walk to work at least 1 to
3 days per week.
- Carpool to work as often as possible.
- Walk children to school.
- Avoid drive-thrus.
- Link multiple trips into one.
- Bring lunch to work or walk to lunch to avoid using the
car.
- Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact
fluorescents.
- Use online services to minimize car trips.
- Avoid using wood burning fireplaces. If you do use your
fireplace, call 800-766-4463 to see if wood burning is allowed that
day, and burn manufactured wood logs or clean, dry, seasoned
wood.
- Never burn trash.
- Purchase and use an electric lawn mower.
- Avoid using leaf blowers.
- Switch to environmentally-friendly lawn care products.
- Do not use a charcoal barbecue.
- Have the Lodi Electric Utility perform an energy audit.
- Investigate energy-efficient water heaters.
- Regularly check the tire pressure on vehicles.
— Source: San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.
View the Healthy Air Living Personal Pledge at
www.healthyairliving.com
- Safety first: Ways to make sure you are safe on the road
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- Wear a properly fitted bicycle helmet. Youths under the age of
18 are legally required to wear a helmet while operating a bicycle,
scooter, skateboard, skates or in-line skates.
- Ride in the same direction as other vehicles on roadways or the
highway per state law. Ride in bike lanes when possible or close to
the right edge of the road.
- Obey stop signs and stoplights, and be careful while turning.
Violations for not stopping are the same as if you were in
car.
- Look in all directions when pedaling and do not dart into or
around traffic. Ride multiple bicycles in single file.
- Watch for parked cars pulling out or car doors opening.
- Children should walk bicycles across intersections.
- Wear protective equipment. Do not pedal barefoot, in sandals or
in shoes with heels. Instead wear good, flat-soled shoes. Use
gloves to help grip the handlebars. Wear sunglasses or safety
glasses to prevent debris from the road getting into your
eyes.
- Wear bright colors to help drivers see you. At night, you must
have a headlight and a red reflector on the back.
— Source: Lodi Police Department
Posted: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:00 am
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Updated: 4:25 pm, Tue May 17, 2011.
Lodi hosts first Bike to Work Week
By Maggie Creamer
News-Sentinel Staff Writer
Lodinews.com
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Lodi resident John Nunes regularly rides his black Nirve bike —
with an orange horn that has the cartoon character Goofy on it — to
do errands around town.
“When the basket is full, it’s time to go home,” he said.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:00 am.
Updated: 4:25 pm.
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Sustainability,
Cycling,
John Nunes,
Chris Kaufman,
Bicycles,
Bike To Work Week,
San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District,
Anthony Presto,
Bicycle Versus Vehicle Injury Accidents,
Millswood Middle School,
Wearing Helmets,
Safety Inspection Of Bicycles,
Jack Haynes,
Cassidy Thomas
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Marc Lutz posted at 2:28 pm on Tue, May 17, 2011.
I make it a point to ride to work as often as possible. Only poor weather generally keeps me from using the bicycle as my mode of transportation. Because of riding my bike, I didn't have to fill my car's tank for well over a month.
Kevin Paglia posted at 1:34 pm on Tue, May 17, 2011.
Doug, love HOC, but since I always got the Green tea smoothie (don't drink coffee) I needed to cut them out because of the HUGE calorie count in the smoothies. Not just there, I had to cut 90% of the green tea smoothies. For what ever reason it seems the GTS have a higher calorie count than other ones.
Now i just brew my own tea and enjoy it that way. We were at HOC today (via car) for my wife.
Doug Chaney posted at 11:59 am on Tue, May 17, 2011.
Kevin, I haven't seen you at the House of Coffees lately and hope the soon to come (?) summer weather will bring you there more often. I know you're very passionate in your endeavors in life, especially the bicycle issue. I, too, ride my bike wherever I can and just love everything about the bike lanes and the short distances the city of Lodi has to offer and the compact size of Lodi itself. I see many young people riding down my street going to work early each morning, rain or shine, and all comments point to the tremendous savings on not having to pay for fuel and doing their part to contribute to help keep our environment as clean as possible.
Kevin Paglia posted at 8:46 am on Tue, May 17, 2011.
Anyone who's been around here for a while know where i fall on this issue. I got my four wheel bike out and enjoying running errands on it. Have fun talking with people in parking lots about it. Most common question, "did you make it?" answer, "no, I'm not that talented." Most common ice breaker used when I see people looking at it when i am approaching after shopping, "you should see me on the freeways." (for you too literal people, no I don't actually take it on the freeways.) I'm pushing 1500 miles on it, surgery and weather has really slowed me down on it, but getting back into the swing. Planning my route to get to Costco to shop there when needed. Plus I lost 20lbs since I got it.
Also have my standard bike for doing the quick paperwork errands and for going faster. If you think about it, Lodi really is small enough where you can cycle to most of your errands if space allows.
Advice I give people who ask, cheap way to reduce gas AND still run shopping on your bike, buy one of the toddler tow-behinds and use that as your trunk. At about a hundred dollars it could pay for itself in the first summer. Still like to see more stores with bike stations at them.