[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Ft. Ord (CA) bicycle trails

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Salinas-area racers benefit from Fort
 roads and trails, advocate for a place in its future

Scott MacDonald
Salinas Californian
March 4, 2011

Dozens of middle-aged men clad in Spandex and helmets stand above  
expensive bicycles on a remote paved road. It's a sunny Saturday  
morning in February, and Marc Franklin is calling out instructions  
for the race that's about to begin.

"It's a nice course; it's a closed course," the USA Cycling official  
says. "But there could be people out there walking dogs, hiking,  
mountain biking. If people look oblivious, get out of their way.

"This wasn't publicized like the Tour de France."

The Tour it may not be, but the bicycle races held on the roads and  
trails of the former Fort Ord since 1995 bring hundreds of cycling  
enthusiasts to the area — an area the races' organizer describes as a  
"Shangri-La" for biking.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20110305/NEWS01/103050331/-1/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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