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Events
Bike, Walk or Run Nevada's New Highway
On Saturday, July 28, you can participate in the Rush To Washoe - a human-powered celebration for the opening of the new Hwy 395 freeway over the spectacular Galena Bridge. There is a "Bikes Only Ride", 8.5 miles of open freeway starting at 7:00 AM. The ride begins at Galena High School Parking lot with 12-32 mile options. At 7:30 AM is the "Fun Run" starting on the Freeway approximately 4.5 miles to the Bridge. Enter freeway from the Reno side. For more information about the event or to host a booth during the public event from 7:00 to 1:00 contact Mark Kimbrough at 775.720-4732 or email at mrkkimbrough@gmail.com.
Bike Event Promoters Post Your Events 
The Bike Coalition invites bicycle event promoters to post their events on the Event Calendar located on its web site, www.TahoeBike.org and its facebook page to reach over 2,000 bicyclists interested in what's happening in Lake Tahoe.
License Plate Purchase Helps Build Bikeways
Purchase a Tahoe License in either California or Nevada and a portion of the fees will go toward local bikeway projects. Go to
www.tahoefund.org/plate for details.
Kudos to Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT)
This summer, NDOT has been replacing all the storm water grates along Hwy 28 and 50 in the Tahoe Basin to make them more bicycle-friendly. Prior to the recent change, the grates were perpendicular to the direction of travel and bisected the shoulder that either forced the bicyclist to ride the irregular surface or avoid it by moving into the high speed travel lane. Now with the rebuild, grates are parallel with traffic direction and easily avoidable.
Thank you NDOT for caring enough about bicyclist safety and their bicycling experience in Lake Tahoe.
Bike Rodeo Rescheduled for Friday, August 17th
The Lake Tahoe Bike Coalition along with the Boys & Girls Club will be producing a Bike Rodeo on Friday, August 17th starting at 2:00 PM at the Boys/Girls Club facility in South Lake Tahoe.
The Rodeo will include a bike safety check, proper fitting of helmets, and instruction on safe bicycle handling skills. South Shore Bikes will be on hand to perform bike safety check and the California Highway Patrol, with the help of the Bike Coalition, will administered the bike safety education.
Get you kids ready for the Bike Rodeo - as there will be opportunities to get a free bicycle helmet and other great bicycle related accessories. For those interested in participating as a sponsor, vendor or volunteer, you may contact Ty Polastri at BikeTahoe@aol.com.
More details about the rodeo will be in the August edition of the Tahoe Cycling News.
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US Forest Service's Tahoe Basin Forest Plan Revision - Public Comment
The US Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit released its Draft Revised Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) and as part of its Forest Plan revision process, the Forest Service is asking for public review and comment on four alternatives for managing National Forest land in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The 90 day public comment period ends on August 30, 2012. Please consider attending one of the public meetings this week to show support for the Draft Forest Plan. They will be:
South Lake Tahoe Meeting
When: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. and from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m
Where: Forest Supervisor's Office, 35 College Drive, South Lake Tahoe, CA
North Lake Tahoe Meeting
When: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. and from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m
Where: North Tahoe Conference Center, 8318 North Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, CA
If you cannot attend, please provide your comments to: comments-pacificsouthwest-ltbmu@fs.fed.us with "Draft Land Management Plan" as the subject line.
 Bikeable and Walkable Community Presentations & Workshop Scheduled
Two experienced bike/ped professionals will be sharing their experiences with challenges and solutions in various communities around the world and how these may be relevant and applicable to the Tahoe Basin. Presenting will be Myles Rademan, the Director of Information for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Park City, Utah, and Michael Ronkin, the former Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager for the Oregon Dept. of Transportation who helped transform Portland into one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the nation.
Presentations are Wednesday, July 25, 5-8 PM, North Tahoe Event Center, 8318 North Lake Blvd., Kings Beach, CA, and Thursday, July 26, 5-8 PM in the LTCC Board Rooms, 1 College Drive, South Lake Tahoe, CA.
Workshop Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists -July 26, 8-4PM
This all-day workshop will give participants an opportunity to learn about and discuss the street and community design features that transform places into vibrant communities, with an emphasis on designs that will work in the Tahoe setting, taking into account our heavy snowfall and unique Lake environment. Please RSVP to Karen Fink kfink@trpa.org or Katy Cole K.Cole@fehrandpeers.com by July 24th . This is free and lunch will be provided. Workshop will be held at TRPA Board Rooms, 128 Market Street, Stateline, NV.
California Bicycle Transportation Account - Evaluation Committee Meets
Last week, the California Dept. of Transportation held a two day grant review process for over 103 grant requests from county and city agencies from throughout the state. 17 representatives consisting of transportation engineers, designers, consultants, bicycle coordinators and two bicycle advocacy representatives (one from the LTBC) comprised the evaluation committee. This year there was $11.9 million dollars available for grants. The most common grant requests were for designing and constructing bike lanes, bike paths, and wayfinding signage. All applications had to meet specific criteria that generally promoted bicycle transportation, connectivity, safety, had to have at least 10% matching funds and was shovel ready.
The Tahoe Basin had a couple of grant applications submitted. The committee made its recommendations and now those recommendations get elevated to Caltrans headquarters and must be approved by the Director of Transportation. The announcement of grant awards may come in October.
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Happy Bike Sightings
  Brad Humphries Wins Mt. Bike Donated by Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition and Bike Habitat |
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is promote livable and sustainable communities by encouraging more bicycle/pedestrian-friendly facilities and to promote educational programs and events in which residents and visitors can safely and conveniently bike and walk on a more frequent basis.