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Help make the CA DMV bicycle friendly!

Bicycling is inexpensive, healthy, and the most efficient form of transportation around. Please write to California Governor Gavin Newsom and encourage him to make all California DMV offices truly friendly to bicyclists. Below is the email I sent him at https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/ . Alas I could not send along pictures in the form based email submission but here are some pictures from my recent DMV visit.  At the DMV in Santa Clara: Their lonely and isolated wheel bender rack is flush against a wall so the center section that bends your wheel cannot even be used: Luckily with COVID there are lots of guards and staff outside at their entrance so they watched my bike next to the front door while I was inside: Locking my commuter/shopping bike to an outdoor bike rack is a big pain and risky -- it is much easier to roll it inside with me. I tend to only shop where I can bring my bike inside because I bike everywhere and use my bike as my shopping cart. Most places do not have...

The best Sunnyvale to San Jose bike route

Here is the best (prettiest, lowest traffic, fewest stoplights, most trees & shade) bicycling route I know from Southern Sunnyvale to Adobe Systems headquarters at 345 Park Avenue in downtown San Jose and back again: Sunnyvale to San Jose Bike Route using Google Maps San Jose to Sunnyvale Bike Route using Google Maps Sunnyvale to San Jose using Bikely (click on title of map below for bigger version): Sunnyvale to Adobe HQ (San Jose) Share your bike routes @ Bikely.com It's about 11 miles and passes many parks and schools. Credit to Roberto Perelman for showing me the bulk of this most excellent biking route. I've been using it periodically since 2001 or so and Roberto rides it daily.