At the CalTrain station the Bike to Work Day scene was something like a party...

        

     

At California & Castro the Frenwick & West energizer station was more of a place to pick up a bagel and trade shots with the photographer.

     

There were lots of bikes out on the street. I took the other pictures above at the California Avenue Caltrain station.

     

I saw this teardown lot riding south and thought "the economy can't be that bad, they are still developing in Palo Alto."

Back in the '80s that cleaners behind the SS/L energizer station was a gas station. I remember them because I won 200 gallons of gas from them, years before I learned how to drive a car. It's still one of my funnier memories.


Then I saw this quite big development where Ford Aerospace's big building was when I first got out of school.

  

Building 3, where I worked on power supplies for space systems in '81-'82 is still there, but now the sign says "Loral" next to the 3.

This was the Google energizer station for the general public. They had another one behind the building for employees. I didn't see that one this year because I wasn't with someone who worked there or was connected to someone who worked there.

  

  

I asked the guy with the clipboard inspecting this bridge when it would open and he said "Maybe memorial day, maybe." I can hardly wait to use it, whenever it opens. I've heard the intersection it goes over called "the most dangerous one in Mountain View for bicycle-car wreaks." Just all the car wrecks alone are substantial. My old  upstairs neighbor saw one there himself while out for a walk. I've seen them cleaning up after one, but I've never been there when it happened.



Waiting on the southbound CalTrain platform, I was just blown away by the number of bikes waiting for the northbound trains. Maybe there were more because of Bike to Work Day, but I doubt that was more than half of them. I remember when three or four of us were an event, not that many years ago. I'm glad to see that using the train/bike combo to get around is making more sense to more people.

  

I got off in San Jose, at the Dirdon Station. Getting from there to the party in the Plant 51 yard on my bike took about three minutes.