Calling all biking iPhone users! Download CycleTracks, the free app that generates maps and statistics of your rides that you can share with friends. Time and route data is saved for you—and also transmitted to the San Francisco County Transportation Authority to improve the bicycle component of their travel forecasting model, helping planners better understand and serve the needs of San Francisco cyclists. You’ll be promoting Bay Area cycling with your iPhone! (All data collected will be kept confidential)
Win a $50 iTunes gift card!
If you download CycleTracks and use it for at least one trip by November 27th, you’ll be automatically entered in all drawings to win one of ten $50 iTunes Gift Cards*. Download CycleTracks or search for it in the iTunes app store. For more information about CycleTracks, visit www.sfcta.org/CycleTracks or our Facebook page.
*—We’ll need your email address, but it won’t be shared with anyone—and we’ll keep you posted on the progress of the study. (See complete contest rules)
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission voted unanimously today to spend $80 million on an ambitious climate initiatives program that aims to reduce driving in an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The test of Santa Rosa's first bike boulevard originally expected to take six months will now stretch to 10 as the city scrambles to find middle ground between warring factions. 
The Bay Area Bicycle Coalition has joined the California Bicycle Coalition in encouraging the Economic Allowance Advisory Committee (EAAC) to allow investment of the allowances being considered in discussions of a Cap-And-Trade system for California. The committee is already recommending investing allowances in transportation planning to support Sustainable Community Strategies, which will help encourage biking and walking. Our recommendation to the EAAC is to explicitly add non-motorized infrastructure as an eligible investment so that we can implement the sustainable community strategies they are already supporting. You can learn more about the EAAC and the Cap-And-Trade process being designed as part of AB32 at:
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Bid on items at the Sonoma County Bike Coalitions 
The way Sunnyvale land is developed over the next 20 years is riding on the city's Land Use and Transportation Element, which is currently being eyed for an overhaul. The city's planning division recently held three workshops to gather input on how to upgrade the land use and transportation portion of the city's General Plan, which essentially lays out the guidelines for how land is zoned and developed. The city last updated the plan in 1997. For the first time, the city is exploring the idea of sustainability in the plan. Sunnyvale is updating it's Land Use and Transportation Plan. If you're a resident and have ideas for how to improve biking and walking in Sunnyvale, please contact:
On November 15th the Bay Area Bicycle Coalition was honored by 
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A new study says Californians could save billions each year and cut greenhouse gas emissions by developing neighborhoods within easy access of public transportation. The study – "Windfall for All: How Connected, Convenient Neighborhoods Can Protect Our Climate and Safeguard California's Economy" – was conducted by 