Considering a bicycle to improve your commute this summer? Sign up for the TVCA Commuter Challenge!

Join us for our first Street Smarts Cycling course on Saturday, May 31. Location will be the Marion Bingham Conference Room at the Boise Public Library! We'll start at 10:30. Please contact Walt at 409-6400 for additional information.

Cartwright Road from the intersection of Dry Creek Road to Pierce Park Lane will be reconstructed over the next six months to create a wider, safer road. The developers of Cartwright Ranch are doing the project, which was required by the Ada County Highway District. Cartwright will be expanded from a 22-foot-wide road to a 32-foot-wide road with two, 11-foot-wide vehicle lanes and two, 4-foot-wide paved shoulders for cyclists, pedestrians and stalled cars. The road will be closed during construction, which starts on April 14, 2008 and will end in early October.

TVCA is pleased to announce the launch of a new cycling education program. The program provides low-cost and free bicycling clinics for recreational cyclists, event riders, commuters, and novice cyclists to create a better community through bicycling. We teach safe cycling to kids and adults through a variety of courses and delivery options. For additional information on these new classes, see the Bike Education section.

On Monday, October 22nd, the Mayor of Garden City (John G. Evans) announced plans to bypass State Street to provide a connection from Ulmer Lane to Riverside Drive. Here is specific announcement from the Mayor. For additional information, and to see maps of the new connetion, go the Garden City website at http://www.gardencityidaho.govoffice.com/

State Street Bypass Pathway Connection

In memory of Sarah Howard, the cyclist killed by a careening SUV last Friday, I will host an informal Ride of Silence on Wednesday afternoon, October 24.

Departure point will be Big City Coffee & Cafe, in the Linen District at 1416 Grove Street, Boise. Departure time will be not later than 5:40 p.m. Everyone is invited to arrive early and visit a bit, before riding. I will arrive at the cafe around 5:00 p.m. The cafe will be open, serving its usual excellent fare.

7 days, 430 miles, all on a bicycle… That’s the quick recap for Ride Idaho 2007. Ride Idaho is Idaho’s annual state bicycle tour that provides a great opportunity to cycle through some wonderful parts of the state, get a chance to meet a variety of very interesting people, and to completely check out from your normal life for a full week. This was the third year for Ride Idaho and I can attest that the event keeps getting better and better. We did a big clockwise loop starting and ending in Coeur D’Alene. Along the way we visited and camped in wonderful hamlets including Wallace, St. Maries, Deary, Lewiston (Hells Gate State Park), Moscow, and Heyburn State Park (on the banks of lake Coeur D’Alene). Many of us took advantage of an extra 34-mile loop out and back to Elk River – where tasty huckleberry ice cream and milkshakes awaited us.

Ada County rolled out a bicycle tune-up program for its employees to coincide with and support the “May in Motion” event organized locally by ACHD’s Commuterride. The program was designed to target employees who own a bicycle but don’t use it as often as they would like. Its goal was to provide employees with an incentive to try bicycle commuting.

Idaho Statesman Article
statesman staff - Idaho Statesman
Edition Date: 06/19/07
The Greenbelt between Idaho State Parks headquarters on Warm Springs Avenue and the Idaho 21 bridge is closed due to an irrigation canal leak. Boise Project Board of Control Monday discovered a leak in the Penn Canal, which runs along the Greenbelt in the area. Crews will need at least three or four days to remove a section of the Greenbelt and repair the leak.

Greenbelt users have no way to detour around the repair zone.

Ride from Emmett to Lowman to help protect Idaho’s wild and natural areas.