Tag Archives: Recreational Trail

Motorized Bicycles Get OK On Rec Trail

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Helmets required? Hello?

Bicycle Crash

Pacific Grove City Council voted 5-2 to allow two common varieties of electric bikes along the nearly mile-long and highly scenic stretch Monterey Bay Recreation Trail that passes through Pacific Grove. While e-bikes will be allowed on the trail, they will be restricted to 12 MPH. There is no speed limit for bicycles on the trail, and conflicts between bike riders and pedestrians there are a daily occurrence. Nevertheless, some council members welcomed the much heavier and faster e-bikes.

Motorized Bicycles Get OK On Rec Trail

Missing Cannery Row Tourist Found Dead

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Los Gatos man found in Santa Clara after going missing in Pacific Grove on the recreation trail.

A man who went missing while visiting the Monterey Bay peninsula has been found dead.

McGee was reported missing by his spouse after he did not return to their hotel room.

Investigators reported on Friday that Mcgee’s body was found in Santa Clara County. His cause of death was not disclosed by police.

Missing Cannery Row Tourist Found Dead

Monterey Getting $8,000,000 For A Short Section Of Recreation Trail Improvements

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Eight Million Dollars for “to go from Fisherman’s Wharf to the Coast Guard station”. The money is coming from a grant (taxes) called the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 that was sold to the tax payers as an investment to fix our roads, freeways and bridges in communities across California. As usual, Governor Moonbeam lies about where our tax dollars are spent.

At least put some lights up and maybe a few 911 phones to cut down on the rapes, robberies and assaults that happens on that dangerous trail.
Rec Trail Graff

“Solutions for congested corridors are usually for Los Angeles or San Francisco so one of the things that we try to do with this grant is highlight the importance of offering an environmentally friendly and alternate form of transportation,” said Andrea Renny. She said that by creating a smoother running trail, drivers could be swayed to become bikers, therefore the improved Rec Trail could also serve to alleviate congestion on the road. And while some have advocated for the need to separate the bicyclists and pedestrians in that stretch of the trail, Renny said that the Parks and Recreation Master Plan calls for widening the trail first before other alternatives can be considered.

Monterey Getting $8,000,000 For A Short Section Of Recreation Trail Improvements

Protest Park Gets Kiddie Attractions

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Something for kids to do while grown ups hold flags and picket signs. Don’t go there when it’s dark though.

A new climbing structure resembling a humpback whale has been installed between the volleyball courts at Window  on the Bay waterfront park. A starfish located adjacent to the whale is also part of the citywide Neighborhood Improvement Project approved last April and designed to give children, ages 2 to 10, a structure to play on.

“They’re all designed as climbing structures,” said Marcuzzo. “But it’s probably going to become a photo opp too.”

Protest Park Gets Kiddie Attractions

Change It To Monterey Regional Water Pollution Creation Agency

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MRWPCA Slogan

Not a repeat from 2015’s What Do You Smell, Ralph?

Raw wastewater flowed onto the Rec Trail and into the Monterey Bay from about 7 to 8:30 p.m. after a power surge caused the pump station’s electrical equipment to fail, according to Mike McCullough, government affairs administrator of the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency.

“All of the bumps and power surges — sometimes that can throw some of the electronic equipment into chaos,” said McCullough, who noted that shortly after the incident, officials from the agency successfully hooked up another generator to do the pumping that needed to be done.

Change It To Monterey Regional Water Pollution Creation Agency

Tourist Trap News

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Don’t visit the trail at night. Dangerous Place.

Rec Trail Open2

The sardine population col-lapsed in the 1950s as a result of overfishing and changes in ocean conditions; the canneries closed, and the trains quit running through town.

Today, Monterey’s sardine history is still in evidence, although now seen through the perspective of tourism. Remaining canneries have been repurposed and filled with shops, restaurants, galleries and museums. The railroad tracks have been pulled up and replaced with a walking/bicycling path called the Monterey Bay Coastal Recreation Trail.

Tourist Trap News

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Flasher On The Recreation Trail

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Keeping the trail unsafe.

Rec Trail Assault

Monterey police are asking for witnesses or victims to come forward after receiving second-hand information of a man exposing himself on the Recreation Trail near Fisherman’s Wharf.

Responding officers were unable to locate the victims or anyone who witnessed the incident during the initial investigation, and their statements are needed.

Flasher On The Recreation Trail

Pipe Bomb On Recreation Trail

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First it was just rouge bicyclists, murderous attackers, robbers and stabbings, now we have pipe bombs to contend with,

Rec Trail Open2

The Monterey County sheriff’s bomb squad detonated a suspected pipe bomb Tuesday night after the device was found at the side of a popular trail, police said.

The bomb squad was alerted after officers went to the bike trail along Ocean View Boulevard near 10th Street and Berwick Park about 7 p.m. to check out the device.

The bomb squad used a remote control robot to secure the device and to fire an explosive charge that destroyed it. There was explosive material in the device, McSorley said.

Pipe Bomb On Recreation Trail

P.G. Shores Attract Crime

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The shoreline and recreation trail are definitely not safe after dark.

Just after midnight, an officer contacted a man parked near the ocean front on the 1600 block of Ocean View Boulevard. The man was allegedly in possession of a loaded and concealed weapon on himself and having drug paraphernalia in his vehicle.

Santos Gervacio Benitez, 18, of Salinas, was arrested and booked into Monterey County Jail.

At 11 a.m. an officer saw a man smoking marijuana adjacent to the waterfront on the 1700 block of Sunset Drive. Another man was contacted near the water. Both men, under 21, were found in possession of alcohol and had been illegally collecting marine life from teh tide pools.

Alvaro Miranda, 20, and Jesus Miranda Gonzalez, 19, both of San Jose, were arrested on suspicion of a minor in possession of alcohol and illegally taking animals from a marine sanctuary.

P.G. Shores Attract Crime