Belmont Student Cyclists Push for Safer Bike Routes

Student-organized bike-along brings awareness to current biking infrastructure

A student-organized bike-along through San Carlos and Belmont, intended to raise awareness of bicycling as a mode of transportation, highlighted the everyday dangers bicyclists face on the area’s roads. The bike-along brought students and bicycle advocates on a 5.5-mile bike ride, which was organized and led by Benjamin Mangiafico, a senior who runs the Carlmont High School Transportation Club. “The main goal is to raise high schoolers’ awarenes…

Belmont Student Cyclists Push for Safer Bike Routes

Carlmont High students in Belmont say unsafe roads force them to ride next to fast traffic, pressuring officials to fund a corridor overhaul.