Cycling Claremont: A New Grate...

Following a flurry of bicycle related improvements last year, and early this year, it has become more difficult to find new changes around town. Today, though I did spot something new (besides the fact that I rolled out on the Basso for a change). Someone put in a new grate on Live Oak Canyon Road where you make a right onto East College Way. Just last week, this grate was the death trap sort, with bars running parallel to the flow of traffic, and no cross bars; the gaps between them wide enough to trap even my mountain bikes tires. Road riders not paying attention there would have been doomed to an inevitable crash. Now, should your eyes be focused elsewhere, you can roll over the grate with little worry.