Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Is your city walkable?

Just got an announcement from a friend of mine who has started a new campaign for trying to "raise America's Walk Score." They have launched a web site www.walkscore.com with walkability rankings of 2,508 neighborhoods in the largest 40 U.S. cities. If you go to the site and type in your address you can see how you score (Downtown Davis does really well). And if you support walkable communities they have a petition online to encourage Congress to support walking towns ...

Davis Hosting Stage 2 of the Tour of California 2009

Big big news for Davis. Stage 2 of the Tour of California in 2009 will start in Davis (after Stage 1 which starts and ends in Sacramento).

For more information see Velonews here.
Also see the SacBee story here.
  • Stage 1, Saturday, Feb. 14 – Sacramento
  • Stage 2, Sunday, Feb. 15 – Davis to Santa Rosa
  • Stage 3, Monday, Feb. 16 – Sausalito to Santa Cruz
  • Stage 4, Tuesday, Feb. 17 – San Jose to Modesto
  • Stage 5, Wednesday, Feb. 18 – Merced to Clovis
  • Stage 6, Thursday, Feb. 19 – Visalia to Paso Robles
  • Stage 7, Friday, Feb. 20 – Solvang (individual time trial)
  • Stage 8, Saturday, Feb. 21 – Santa Clarita to Pasadena
  • Stage 9, Sunday, Feb. 22 – Rancho Bernardo to Escondido


Saturday, July 12, 2008

Good sources for Air Quality Information for Davis

Just in case anyone needs it here are a couple of good sources for air quality information for Davis and the area