By Zak Podmore — In the early 1980s, southeastern Utah was targeted as a potential dump site for high-level nuclear waste, the kind that comes from nuclear reactors. The Department of Energy considered storing 8,000 tons of this highly radioactive material near Canyonlands National Park, boosting the idea as spurring “nuclear tourism.” Who wouldn’t want […]

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SACRAMENTO, California (June 9, 2025) — CalBike and other advocates had a modest ask from California’s nearly $20 billion 2025 transportation budget: give back $400 million stripped from the Active Transportation Program (ATP) in 2024, as the legislature promised to do in last year’s budget. Yet the legislature’s version, released today, includes no additional funding […]

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By Tracy Stone-Manning / Writers on the Range — Public lands are one of our country’s great equalizers. It doesn’t matter how much money you have—a billionaire and a bus driver both get the same access to our parks, deserts, rivers and forests. Each one of us owns these lands together. They are literally America’s […]

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by Ky Plaskon, Nevada Current (May 19, 2025) — Friday May 16, 2025 was deadline day – the day hundreds of good bills died at the hands of committee chairs in the legislature. Since our legislature only meets every few years and is limited to 120 days to consider 1,174  bills this year  – legislators run […]

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By Brad Tucker — I have been practicing law for over thirty-five years, the majority of which has included representing bicyclists who have been hit by drivers who disregarded the safety of others. The Colorado legislature is considering a bill that will increase penalties for drivers who hit and kill vulnerable road users, such as […]

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Cyclists Urged to Contact Gov. Little to Ask Him to Veto the Bills BOISE, Idaho (April 1, 2025) — Senate Bill 1140 and Senate Bill 1144 will prevent any local highway district in Idaho from completing stand-alone bicycle and pedestrian safety projects*. These bills particularly target Boise and Ada County’s ACHD (Ada County Highway District). […]

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By Aaron Weiss/Writers on the Range — If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while hoping in vain for different results, then Utah’s leaders surely need to talk to a mental health professional. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court summarily dismissed Utah’s land-grab lawsuit, which had gained the support of […]

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SACRAMENTO, California (January 10, 2025) — CalBike applauds Governor Gavin Newsom for leaving funding intact for the Active Transportation Program (ATP) in his proposed budget, after two years of steep cuts. The ATP is the state’s only dedicated funding source for infrastructure that supports biking, walking, and public transit. However, the governor’s budget doesn’t go […]

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“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed…” — Wallace Stegner By Kevin Proescholdt — The goal of the Wilderness Act, now celebrating its 60th birthday, was to set aside a small proportion of public land in America from human intrusion. Some places, the founders […]

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By Savannah Cottam — As we combat the intersecting crises of declining societal health and the degradation of Earth, a stark reality unfolds – those born after 1980 have never experienced a below-average global year or month in temperature (1). This underscores a shift in our climate. While Earth’s orbital changes might suggest gradual cooling, this […]

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By Darrell Owens — Traffic Violence won’t be fixed by planners and engineers who view cities as a means to run an economy over the lives of people in them — only we can fix it ourselves. Last month, a pedestrian and a cyclist were killed by a driver at the very same intersection in Sunnyvale, […]

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By Eric Kraan — Whether you understand Utah’s present traffic safety shortcomings as a recent uptick in traffic fatalities or see it as a long-term trend, it is undeniable that changes are necessary.  The Utah Department of Transportation’s (UDOT) 2016 Strategic Safety Plan set a goal to reduce fatalities by 50% by 2030. This meant, back […]

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By Molly Absolon — The first time I saw an electric bike — better known as an ebike — I was struggling up a hill. Suddenly, a silver-haired man came whizzing by in regular city clothes. I felt a wave of envy as he left me in the dust. That was probably five years ago, and […]

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By Peter Abraham — I’m up in Sun Valley, Idaho for the Rebecca’s Private Idaho gravel race. Started 10 years ago by Rebecca Rusch, RPI is a four-day stage race that people travel to from all over North America. This is my second year in a row at the event; last year I worked here as […]

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By Peter Flax — This is a feebleminded pronouncement that I hear and read all the time. It’s typically deployed by folks who are complaining about bike riders—on social media and at dinner parties and in the comments section of news stories. Here’s how it gets deployed. Someone sees a rider pedaling in the street and […]

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By Brandi Williams — Summer is just around the corner. Cyclists everywhere are chomping at the bit to get out on their bikes! This year in particular, after a year of lockdowns, the call of the open space that biking provides, is irresistible. No Peloton can substitute for that feeling of being out in the middle of nowhere, alone on your […]

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By Jace Burbidge On Thursday, February 4th, Day 17 of the 2021 Utah legislative session the Utah State House of Representatives debated and voted on H.B. 142, the Cyclist Traffic Amendments. This bill allows an individual operating a bicycle to yield at stop signs under certain circumstances such as no other visible vehicles approaching, or […]

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So many cyclists around the world are in environmentalists, especially here in Salt Lake City. Yes, riding a bicycle is better than driving a car, but there is much more to bicycling than just riding them. As an environmental studies scholar and long-time cyclist, I figured I would write a column that interweaves those two […]

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By Michael Wolcott, High Country News Dangerous hostility toward bicyclists is rooted in distrust of those who are different. The German couple was out to see America by bicycle. It was day two of their big adventure, a perfect springtime afternoon. We met by chance on U.S. Highway 180, halfway between Flagstaff, Arizona, and the […]

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Guest Editorial by Cristiano Pereira — A neighborhood is like the spokes of a wheel, in that we are all interconnected, particularly when it comes to economics and commerce. I say that because as a small business owner of a local bicycle shop I see our interconnection every day.  First, as the consumer and user […]

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