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Imagine packing your bags, getting on your bike, and heading out of town on a quiet bike path. A few days later, that same path has carried you to another city hundreds of miles away, without having to navigate traffic the entire time. Is this the Netherlands? Denmark? Some future bike utopia? Nope – you can do that today between Pittsburgh and Washington, DC. Might we do the same in California?

This Tuesday, the County of Marin  released the Alto Tunnel Investigation and Cost Estimate Update, signaling the completion of several years of information-gathering on the long-shuttered tunnel. “MCBC is delighted that this day has finally come,” said Executive Director Jim Elias. “With detailed cost estimates in hand, we now know what it will take to close the last significant gap in the North-South Greenway.”

Reopening the Alto Tunnel remains critical to the completion of Marin’s North-South Greenway.

November 2024 Election – Hear from Mill Valley City Council Candidates on bicycling issues.

Few projects now underway in California capture the imagination like the Great Redwood Trail. A planned 320-mile multi use pathway connecting San Francisco Bay to Humboldt Bay, the GRT is steadily becoming closer to reality.

November 2022 Election – Hear from Corte Madera Town Council Candidates on bicycling issues.

Imagine yourself riding north from Larkspur Ferry, through Cal Park Hill Tunnel toward San Rafael. Three hundred and twenty miles of bike paths and trails later, you find yourself in Eureka looking out over Humboldt Bay. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, that dream took a step closer to reality this October when Governor Newsom signed the Great Redwood Trail Act (SB 69) by State Senator Mike McGuire.