The east end of south Davis: No street refreshing for a "Farm fresh" business like Chipotle - and automobile dealers and other businesses here have been paying taxes for years, but to date not for any improvements to Chiles Rd and adjacent streets (Chiles Corridor). In addition to Chipotle, multiple... Continue reading

East Covell, Westbound, between the Mace Curve and Alhambra. See Video. Reported on 8/1/2024. Based on my understanding of how My Davis Requests are processed, this has not even been evaluated at time of writing. Davis, CA - I've been riding a bike in cities for most of my adult... Continue reading

The 30% Design (excerpt) Necessary ADA improvements at Davis Train Station are complicated by toxic over-promise of shared infrastructure. Facilities essential to support modern train-bike multi-modal travel a vague promise. City Council plans to sign an MOU with Amtrak at their meeting today; a update of the “30% design” for... Continue reading

There's some metaphor here... ask the Council about it? Today, January 30th, the City of Davis City Council will “Consider Recommendations Related to Commissions”. Please show up this evening - item 5 is scheduled for 7:20pm - or call the comment line at (530) 757-5693 before 4pm. Let's look at... Continue reading

Back in June I strongly suggested that Mayor Will Arnold recuse himself from City Council discussion/support of the I-80 Managed Lanes Project - The mayor's main gig is a key role in communications at Caltrans. He did recuse himself. Tonight the City Council is voting for approval for one of... Continue reading

From a presentation I did about bike share in Germany the year after my team's first place win in an international bike share design competition with more than 100 competitors. The authorities in Greater Davis* (City of Davis and UC Davis) plan to introduce a shared micro-mobility system starting this... Continue reading

Should Mayor Will Arnold recuse himself tonight from an I-80 project discussion because he's Media Affairs Manager at Caltrans? Image left: Councilmember Arnold's official Facebook Page & Caltrans / Image right: City of Davis Tonight's City Council Agenda item on the 80 Yolo Managed Project was already covered critically and... Continue reading

* If Nishi can't be built, there's nothing to trade as a mitigation * Dedicated bike-ped crossing of the Yolo Bypass was quietly cancelled after years of promises. Tonight's City Council Agenda item on the 80 Yolo Managed Project was already covered critically and nearly exhaustively last weekend in the... Continue reading

An earlier illegal dump of yard waste on East Covell. Imagine being on a bike at this location... That's Latin for "Legal personhood of trees". Part One: So that was fun. I was working and came across a huge mother f****** pile of yard waste in the bike lane on... Continue reading

At the city council meeting tonight a pilot for e-bike and e-scooter share will likely be approved - and will start by September. Bike share and scooter share are great things, despite all sorts of issues. Electric assist makes these "micromobility" devices even more of a joy. More and more... Continue reading

At this Tuesday's City Council meeting, May 10th, at 630pm, less than one month ahead of Celebrate Davis and less two months ahead of the 4th of July, the City Council is planning to authorize pyrotechnic displays at these events. For the past two years due to COVID and/or wildfire... Continue reading

PARODY - see note below Vote for the Bee Wash to approve the Davis Bee Ecosystem because it enhances and advances more of what we love about our city. Bee Wash gives voters in Davis an exciting opportunity to: build affordable housing for the next generation of Davis’s beneficial insects;... Continue reading

Poorly-Photoshop'd modification of "Davis Auto Center" sign on Chiles next to I-80 I have been engaged for a couple of weeks on the subject of the proposed car wash at 480 Mace (at Cowell Blvd.), and have written about it. I am not sure when the following items appeared on... Continue reading

Poor Outreach, Questionable Process, Certain Traffic Risk, Likely Noise, Unlikely to Meet Shading Goals, Possible Toxic Micro-particulates... Do Plans to Recycle Water Make this Car Wash Acceptable? Curious visualization provided by the applicant: Less than 50% shading of non-planted areas, with some trees not appropriate for Davis, no dirty or... Continue reading

Using a battery-powered common angle grinder, Darell Dickey works with the Davis Police Department to cut locks from abandoned bikes found in the city. He knows first hand that the soft metal of the Lightning Bolt racks is often easier to cut than the locks themselves. ROAM's creators claim that... Continue reading

https://funnyordie.com/2020/09/25/108532/leaf-blowers-are-the-work-of-the-devil/ Progress is progress, but perhaps lost in the progress to reduce the harm caused by leaf blowers to creatures large and small - with university degrees, naked, multi-legged or winged - is the need to make sure that changes in practice don't interfere with the ability of property maintenance... Continue reading

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It took some digging but I found a key letter from the DISC developers to the City of Davis Association of Private Motor Vehicle Sellers and Suppliers: Dear CDAPMVSS, Following are what we plan on the primary characteristics of DISC in regards to your organization’s mission: 1 – Most of... Continue reading

BacThe trap was set likely shortly after "DISC 2020" was defeated by voters. When the developers of this peripheral sprawl - or I'll be nice and call it West West Sacramento - were planning to re-introduce it last year for a vote this year - they realized that a key... Continue reading

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Hiroshima_aftermath - Metaphor for DISC II By U.S. Navy Public Affairs Resources Website - http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/images/historical/hiroshima.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91928 Today at the monthly meeting of the Bicycle Transportation and Street Safe... What? Yes, the Staff of the City of Davis again botched the name of the "bicycling commission", formally the "Bicycling,... Continue reading

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-12-09/people-flee-from-a-burning-christmas-tree-in/233792?nw=0 I identify as culturally Jewish. I lived in Prague for many years. Most know that Jews and Jewish culture were largely erased from what's now the Czech capital and much of central and eastern Europe from the 1930's through the 1980's. In Prague and all over Czechia, "Christmas" as... Continue reading

Today, DAVIS fireplace terrorists in Davis have continued success in making the air as bad as during wildfire season. As most fireplaces are used by wealthier residents, and most homes with inadequate HVAC are lower income, it's economic and racist oppression. Continue reading

Does imagination require or at least benefit by transparency and a truly robust public process? For a year or so the City of Davis, UC Davis and Yolo County have been working with the private consultancy Toole Design and the public to "Reimagine Russell Boulevard". City of Davis staff plan... Continue reading

The militarization of gardening? A conversation about the proposed - and not - restrictions on toxic micro-particle hyper-distribution - a.k.a. “leafblowing” - by three of your favorite local activists! (COVID is Part I) This evening the City of Davis Natural Resources Commission (NRC) will hold the first of two hearings... Continue reading