Bikeboard October 2007

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Cycling safety statistics and considerations
by director 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

Good morning, Just one more thing to pass on and then I'll quit bugging everybody. I was recently reminded of this link to Ken Kifer's website which discusses statistics on bicycling and pedestrian accident/fatality rates. http://www.kenkifer.com/bikepages/health/risks.htm It's a good reminder about where to focus our attention when developing non-motorized amenities that allow all users to share the public roadways safely. Cyclist education is clearly the most effective form of accident prevention. For those who don't know, Ken was killed a few years ago by a drunk driver. This is also a reminder that drunk, inattentive and beligerent drivers - although a very small minority - are beyond the reach of cycling education but should be addressed better in driver education and enforcment. In the meantime be careful out there. Nick

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Bike safety statistics and essay
by director 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

Good evening, Another good link I came across recently http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/8/143547/109 Good recommendations on amenities that improve bike and pedestrian safety most effectively. I highly recommend reading the full article. Nick

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This Thursday's BB Agenda
by Frank Gmeindl 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

Bicycle Board Members, Please find attached a zip folder that contains a suggested agenda for this Thursday's meeting. It also contains one of the read-aheads: the Bicycle Board Goals to enable us to prepare for discussion about forming the Law committee. The minutes should be out soon and Don Spencer's working on a Complete the Streets resolution that I hope you will have in advance of the meeting. Thursday's meeting will be another shorter-than-usual meeting. I expanded the time allocated for reviewing action items because there are several open now and I wanted to allow the owners of those to have adequate time to discuss status and get help moving forward if required. One of my action items from the last meeting was to e-mail you information regarding the state's Transportation Enhancement Program and Recreational Trails Program *grant information.* This link: http://www.wvdot.com/3_roadways/rp/transportationenhancement.htm goes to the TEP. This link: http://www.wvdot.com/3_ROADWAYS/RP/rectrails.htm goes to the WV RTP. As I reported previously, we've completed the Intent-to-Apply form for a TEP grant to support our Education recommendations. Now, we have to complete the application (available at the TEP link). The RTP link provides an opportunity for a grant to support trails development. If any of you are interested in this, better get on it because the Intent-to-Apply submission is due 15-Nov. Hope you're getting in some rides before we turn the clocks back next weekend. Today, (Sunday) has been a marvelous riding day! See you Thursday! Frank

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Bike Commuting Incentive Programs
by director 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Good evening, I received this list of active bike-commuting programs from a forum that I'm on. Check out the one in New Haven, VT. They've gotten participation from 13/14 employees! Nick Payment for Bike Riding Two Milwaukee area non-profits (the Urban Ecology Center and Friends of Milwaukee's Rivers) have an "Eco-bucks" program. Every employee receives a dollar for each day they walk/bike/don't pollute to and from work. Carpoolers and bus riders get 50 cents. Single occupancy vehicle drivers are left out in the cold. Both employees and employers love the program and find it simple and worthwhile to run. . Alliant Energy offers $35/month to commuters that bike (or walk) to work. This is a payment that mimics the intention of the Bike Commuter Act that recognizes that, while drivers get parking, and transit users can get a bus pass from the employer, bikers and walkers aren't getting squat. . Madison, WI is experimenting with a "Parking Cash Out" concept. Parking in many parts of Madison is scarce and expensive. If an employer provides an employee with a free parking space that might be worth $100/month, the program pays the employees who DON'T use the parking space (because they are walking or biking) a full or partial value of that available space which others can pay to use! The employer can sell that parking space on the free market and provide $50 (or more) to the employees that do not use the space. These monies can be used for a transit pass or received as a cash-out in the employee's paycheck. . Calvert Group, from the Washington, DC area has a program where it gives employees $350 to purchase a bicycle. Check it out at : http://www.bwc.gov/empkit/case-studies.htm . In quiet New Haven VT, one small business has taken a giant entrepreneurial leap forward in promoting active lifestyles. Stark Mountain Woodworking is pioneering an alternative commute incentive program that is bigger and more widely accepted than anything we've seen to date. Owners Skimmer Hellier and Louis Dupont have instituted a unique "health plan" that offers each employee $1000 to ride a bike to work! Its beauty is in its simplicity: At the beginning of the year, each employee gets $500 towards buying a bike. If they pedal 650 miles to and from work by the end of the year, Stark Mountain gives them another $500. So far, employees have widely accepted the plan. 13 out of 14 employees ranging in age from 30 to 59 have gotten on board, and most have already reached their 650-mile goal. Boosts in health, energy, and staff team-building have all come out of this exciting initiative, and Hellier is already planning for next year's incentives. Contact Chapin at chapin(a)localmotion.org for a free copy of Stark Mountain's health plan guidelines. We'll create a better world one step ... and one pedal at a time. . In the Washington DC region, up to $105/month is provided to cover the cost of public transit or vanpools; the monies are offered as an employer contribution, pre-tax deduction from the employee's paycheck, or a combination of pre-tax deduction and direct benefit (see www.commuterpage.com/atp/ben-mck.cfm). -----Original Message----- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:39:40 -0700 From: "Manish Champsee" <mchampsee(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Thunderhead] Fwd: [Pednet] Reimbursement for bike KM To: thunderhead <thunderhead(a)thunderheadalliance.org> Message-ID: <8c1524d20710221239o725a19f7j801e70f409f3d8d9(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" anyone have any experience that I can pass on? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charlotte R Bathurst <Charlotte.Bathurst(a)opushamilton.ca> Date: Oct 19, 2007 4:06 PM Subject: [Pednet] Reimbursement for bike KM To: pednet(a)list.flora.org Hi Apologies for being slightly off the topic of pedestrians but does anyone know of anyone reimbursement rates for using your bike for work purposes? e.g. 10 cents / km. Many thanks Charlotte Charlotte R Bathurst M.Sc. Transportation Planner Charlotte.Bathurst(a)opushamilton.ca Tel 604 638 8873, Fax 604 684 5908 <http://www.opushamilton.ca/> http://www.opushamilton.ca 850 - 1185 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 4E6 _______________________________________________ Thunderhead mailing list http://mailman.listserve.com/listmanager/listinfo/thunderhead Thunderhead Archive: http://mailman.listserve.com/listmanager/private/thunderhead

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Chevrons & Ed grant
by Frank Gmeindl 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Bicycle Board Members, * Chevrons *Our bike-and-chevron shared lane marking recommendations to the City took a major step forward today. This morning, Don Spencer and I met with Dan Boroff, City Manager and Terry Hough, City Engineer, Director Public Works. Mr. Boroff wants to install all at one time, in the Spring, all 89 of the shared lane markings that we recommended. The City is beginning the 2008 budget process and he said the shared lane markings will be near the top of the list. The next and perhaps only remaining obstacle is State DOH approval of the installations. Concerning next steps 1. Boroff directed Terry Hough to coordinate with Ron Eck and to meet with WVDOH District Manager Greg Phillips to get WVDOH approval. 2. Boroff directed Terry Hough to refine the cost estimate. (Our cost estimate included materials but not labor. Boroff wants Hough to estimate the total cost including labor.) 3. Boroff will include the total cost estimate in the budget that he'll present to City Council in the Feb-Mar timeframe. 4. Given 1-3, the City will advertise for bids in spring 2008 and the shared lane markings should be completed next summer. *Education Grant* Thanks to generous time and help from Bill Reger-Nash, we completed the Intent-to-Apply form for a 2008 WV Transportation Enhancement Program grant to support the education recommendations that we presented to the Traffic Commission in February. The Intent-to-Apply, as well as the actual application will be submitted by Jeff Mikorski, Assistant City Manager. Bill and I met with Mr. Mikorski this morning to review our input to the Intent-to-Apply form. We made some small but very important adjustments to it with Jeff's guidance and we're all pretty confident that our Intent-to-Apply form will be accepted and the State will invite us to submit a proposal. We're requesting $55K federal funds to support instructor development, course advertising and course delivery with a target of delivering the Road I course to more 300 people over a year and changing the behavior of at least 8,000 greater Morgantown residents towards bicycling. Frank

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Study results regarding use of Sharrows
by director 18 Oct '07

18 Oct '07

Good morning, Just came across this on one of the lists I read. http://www.pedalmag.com/index.php?module=Section&action=viewdetail&item_id=… Nick

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Details on Parisian Bike Sharing program
by director 14 Oct '07

14 Oct '07

Good evening, I received this article giving more details on the bike sharing program in Paris. http://tinyurl.com/2gmxkl I thought it was interesting that the program was put on by an outdoor advertising company. They have 15,000 bikes in 1,000 stations and the program has been used heavily and enthusiastically. Nick

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[Fwd: RE: Attendees for Oct. 15 Regional Transportation Session - Please help generate attendance]
by Frank Gmeindl 11 Oct '07

11 Oct '07

Bicycle Board Members, FYI. The State is having a Regional Transportation Education Session at the Waterfront Hotel next Monday, 15-Oct, 9:30-11:00 am. The meeting will probably give a perspective on the dire financial situation for roadway maintenance and construction but it might also reveal any opportunities for cycling infrastructure. Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* Larry Malone [mailto:lmalone@malonecs.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:02 PM *To:* 'Brad Alamong'; tms(a)marionchamber.com <mailto:tms@marionchamber.com>; 'Kathy Wagner'; Bob McLaughlin; wvml(a)wvml.org <mailto:wvml@wvml.org>; Patti Hamilton; info(a)prestonchamber.com <mailto:info@prestonchamber.com>; jmanilla(a)verizon.net <mailto:jmanilla@verizon.net>; dspencer36(a)comcast.net <mailto:dspencer36@comcast.net>; charliebyrer(a)gmail.com <mailto:charliebyrer@gmail.com>; bill(a)byrnehedges.com <mailto:bill@byrnehedges.com>; rjustice(a)wvu.edu <mailto:rjustice@wvu.edu>; jselin(a)hotmail.com <mailto:jselin@hotmail.com>; baner(a)rcbhsc.wvu.edu <mailto:baner@rcbhsc.wvu.edu>; cityclerk(a)morgantown.com <mailto:cityclerk@morgantown.com>; dboroff(a)cityofmorgantown.org <mailto:dboroff@cityofmorgantown.org>; moncom(a)aol.com <mailto:moncom@aol.com>; parsons(a)plantogether.org <mailto:parsons@plantogether.org> *Cc:* 'George Manahan'; 'Chad Mertz'; Mike Clowser; asc(a)wvengineers.com <mailto:asc@wvengineers.com>; JDeneault(a)hntb.com <mailto:JDeneault@hntb.com>; 'Pat Parsons' *Subject:* Attendees for Oct. 15 Regional Transportation Session - Please help generate attendance Here are the attendees we have so far for Monday's transportation session. Please advise whether you and others from your organization will be attending. Thanks. *Morgantown* · Congressman Alan Mollohan · Don Spencer, First Things First Committee in Morgantown · Carye L. Blaney, Monongalia County Clerk · Herb Parsons, Stantec (engineering firm) · John D. Vincent, Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc. · Robert Milne, KCI Technologies · David Dee, PB · Anna Rittenhouse, Congressman Nick Rahall's office */_Invitation -- Monday, October 15_/* * * *Attend Upcoming Regional Transportation Education Session * */-- Rep. Alan B. Mollohan to Provide Remarks/* Local government, business and community leaders from throughout the northcentral region are invited to attend the fourth in a series of regional educational meetings to learn about the challenges facing West Virginia's surface transportation system and to understand what the outlook is for transportation funding. Organizers of the meetings, which are being held in seven locations across the state, include the West Virginia Municipal League, West Virginians for Better Transportation and the West Virginia Association of Counties. Legislators also are being invited to the meetings. *The fourth session will be held Monday, October 15 at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.* West Virginians for Better Transportation is pleased to announce that First District Congressman Alan Mollohan will be on hand for the October 15 session. The meetings are designed to educate local and community leaders about the state's transportation system, its current and projected challenges and the financial plight facing the state Road Fund (now and future), said Joe Deneault, Chairman of West Virginians for Better Transportation. "There are more needs facing our state's transportation system than can be met with existing and projected resources," Deneault added. "Local communities all across the state are struggling with the impacts of this situation. Moreover, many communities are going to face greater problems and issues as limited state Road Fund dollars are stretched even further." ** Deneault noted that the Secretary of the state Transportation Department recently reported his agency will need an extra $350 million more a year to meet maintenance and construction needs in the state. In addition, the state has the sixth highest number of bridges listed either as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. *_AGENDA_* Among the agenda Items to be covered during the meetings are: 1.Overview of W.Va.'s transportation system a.Condition, present situation b.Current funding levels, recent legislative changes c.Impact of recent gasoline price increases 2.Report on the W.Va. DOH's project prioritization a.6-year plan b.$20 billion list of projects 3.Discussion about the state's transportation funding outlook (2007-2012, beyond) 4.What other states are doing? 5.Ideas, suggestions? "These meetings are helping to generate ideas/discussions about what long-term solutions may be possible," Deneault said. WVBT plans to prepare a final report on the meetings and share the comments and ideas with Governor Manchin, WVDOT officials, legislators and all of the coalition's supporters and partners. *_TO ATTEND_* *_ _* Pre-registration is requested for those who want to attend this session. Just send an email with your contact information to info(a)keepwvmoving.org <mailto:info@keepwvmoving.org>. For more information, please go to: www.keepwvmoving.org <http://www.keepwvmoving.org/>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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High School Parking Justification
by Jonathan Rosenbaum 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Gunnar wrote: Also Jon and Nick, and others- Fodder for a potential meeting w/ the MHS principal would be how other schools are being "progressive" and "forward thinking" in regards to alternate transportation to school. Might be nice to have some stats or examples of non-backwards thinking schools... I found a well defined brochure at a UK safe routes to schools program at http://www.sustrans.org.uk/default.asp?sID=1102425335218 . Under related documents, click on the "Cycle Parking for Schools - Information Sheet.pdf", I've this attached the document to this message. It starts out by saying: Providing secure cycle parking has been shown to be one of the most effective ways of encouraging cycling to school. A recent Sustrans survey of 3,000 pupils (9-12 yrs) at 40 schools showed that 54% of pupils (and 43% of parents) wanted better cycle storage at school. Secure cycle storage was the top requirement of pupils already cycling to school, and those considering doing so. Getting the cycle parking right is probably the most effective way in which schools can play their part in promoting active journeys to school and reducing traffic at the school gates. Not only does it allow parents and pupils to feel more relaxed about the prospect of bringing a bike to school, it acts as a striking way of publicising cycling and making cyclists feel valued. Statements in this brochure could easily be applied to MHS High School. There are some case studies at http://www.saferoutestoschools.org.uk/index.php?f=casestudies.htm . I'm sure similar statistics exist on bicycling websites in the United States, just haven't found any yet that provide such clear and readily usable information. -Jonathan

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Re: [Bikeboard] Bike Commuting buddy list is online
by director 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

Gunnar, In a quick lunchtime search I came across the following link from Bike Alliance of WA (state).... http://www.bicyclealliance.org/commute/bikebuddy/index.html This is actually run by one of my old Seattle bike buddies. He'll probably give me any additional information we need, but I'm reluctant to offer spend much time on it as I'm already overloaded. Nick ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "gunn4r Shogren" <gshogren(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 11:52:31 -0400 >On 10/4/07, Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource(a)cheat.org> wrote: >> Thanks, Nick! Here's what Duke's Bike Advocates Bike Commute Buddies >> form looks like: http://www.duke.edu/sustainability/commute_buddy.html > >Seems nice. >Do you know of any campuses or other bike-orgs that provide a similar >service, or one that has suggested commuting routes, via a >maps.google.com thingy perhaps? > >I believe this has been discussed ad nauseam but perhaps w/ the help >of Nick or some other site we could perhaps post some routes for folks >to turn to. > >> >> It appears the way this works is that submitted information goes to a >> central person(s), who then matches the interested person with a Bike >> Commute Buddy who is knowledgeable of the requested route. > >In looking at the site a little closer, it also appears that it hasn't >been updated in a while, or there is no need to. :( >http://www.duke.edu/sustainability/bike.html >FREE Bike Repair Station!! >WHEN: Tuesday, Sept 19 & 20, 10am-2pm >looks like that happened in 2006. > >Show Your Support for Biking at Duke!! >DATE: Thursday, September 22nd RAIN OR SHINE! >looks like that happened 2005. > >Do these things just run out of steam? > >Also Jon and Nick, and others- >Fodder for a potential meeting w/ the MHS principal would be how other >schools are being "progressive" and "forward thinking" in regards to >alternate transportation to school. >Might be nice to have some stats or examples of non-backwards thinking >schools... > >> >> -Jonathan >> >> director wrote: >> > Good evening, >> > As we discussed in tonite's meeting I've put a bike commuting buddy list up at the positive spin forum. You can get to it at this link. >> > http://www.positivespin.org/forum >> > >> > I haven't put much down in the way of rules, I'm hoping you can give me some feedback before we release it to the world. >> > >> > You can read the list without joining, but posting requires that you be a member. Feel free to peruse some of the other topics too. I'm hoping to get a few more people contributing their thoughts and ideas. Plenty of people seem to be reading it, but not many are posting. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > Nick >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Bikeboard mailing list >> > Bikeboard(a)cheat.org >> > http://cheat.org/mailman/listinfo/bikeboard >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bikeboard mailing list >> Bikeboard(a)cheat.org >> http://cheat.org/mailman/listinfo/bikeboard >> > >_______________________________________________ >Bikeboard mailing list >Bikeboard(a)cheat.org >http://cheat.org/mailman/listinfo/bikeboard >

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