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Does anyone every take the Amtrak train from Bakersfield? If so, where to?
Amtrak says ridership on its San Joaquin route (which runs from Bakersfield to Stockton, then onto either Oakland or Sacramento) is up 32 percent this July over the previous year.
But from what I can tell, the options...
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Last night after eating a yummy blue cheese chopped salad at The Outback on Stockdale, my date and I spotted this super cute, banana yellow Smart Car parked next to us in the parking lot. It was so adorable! I just wanted to hug it. But I contained myself and just took these pictures with my cell...
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I've heard from several people that Bakersfield is not a friendly town toward cyclists.
Take Arin Resnicke, for instance. This avid Bakersfield cyclist has not only been hit by a pizza delivery driver but has had objects thrown at him, insults shouted at him and a group of guys hit him with...
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I admit my pinkish purple bicycle has gotten a bit dusty sitting on my porch for the last few months.
Yes, I know...pink.
I don't fancy myself as a pink-kind-of-girl, but, hey, I got the bike for free from Bike Bakersfield. And the hardy Schwinn got me around the bike path several times last...
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Would you carpool to work or take the bus to help clean the air? How about if you knew that vehicle exhaust contributes to 75 percent of the air pollution in Kern County, which boasts some of the dirtiest air in the nation?
This summer air district officials will launch the Healthy Air Living...
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Even though it's a 45-minute drive each way, we gladly travel to downtown Bakersfield from our home in Frazier Park as many as five days a week. Downtown, we've learned, has some great shops and a lively nightlife. (OK, yes, there's the matter of a paycheck, too.)
Often enough we find ourselves...
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Problems? We have problems?
A group meant to address those problems — housing, air quality, water supply and reliability, transportation and education — meets from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday in Fresno.
They're officially called the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley....
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Bakersfield, like most other American cities, continues to deal with a growing transportation problem related to the number of cars on our highways. Much has been made of plans to expand our current road network with heated discussions focusing on where to build the new streets and how to...
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All the hubbub over the inadequate direction over the city's growth came to the front (again) this week as the city ponders how on earth it's ever going to build a transportation system that works.
I've thought it's the result of poor planning, but this blog makes the case that it's not the...
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Local transportation insiders call it “the alignment that shall not be named."
It would extend the stub-end of Highway 58 west from Highway 99 and swoop north through neighborhoods and business districts.
The route would then jump the Kern River and connect to the planned...
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You know how sometimes you don't have the money yet, but you know how youre going to spend it? Maybe it's your tax refund check, maybe it's reimbursement for medical bills, maybe it's the refund for those Decemberists tickets you have for the shows that were cancelled yesterday.
The City of...
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I was 19 and unemployed, living back at home with my Mom and Stepdad in Tehachapi. I had no real plan for my future, I just knew I needed a job. I needed to get out on my own for real and not rely on family to, pretty much, provide me with a place to stay. One day my Mom showed me a full page...
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Since the recent completion of the new Thomas Terminal at Meadows Field, the area surrounding the airport has faced an explosion of new retail growth, much of it on Seventh Standard Road just off Highways 99 and 65. There is a new Harley Davidson dealership, two planned auto dealerships, a new...
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