salone satellite 2009: dots studio

salone satellite 2009: dots studio

RochesterGreenway.org wins Rochester Environmental Site Award!

RochesterEnvironment.com

The RENewsletter is emailed out each week on Sundays. On the last Sunday of each month, an Environmental Site Award goes out to the Rochester-area Environmental Site that best promotes, informs, and offers solutions to our area's environmental issues—using the unique powers of the Internet.

This month, it's RochesterGreenway.org!

The Roc City Park - Location & Design

RocCity Park UPDATE

The mission of the RocCity Skate Park City-Community Partnership is to build a skate park in the City of Rochester.
This is a volunteer effort, so 100% of donated money goes directly to the skate park.The planned location (pending New York State Department of Transportation approval)is beneath the east side of the iconic and award winning Susan B. Anthony/Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge. This location provides excellent shelter from often adverse elements of the region. There is plenty of room for the varied disciplines of skateboarding and BMX. There is also room on either side of the bridge for a more outdoor feel.

Town of Brighton Proposed Multi-Use Trail Public Meeting July 27

Town of Brighton Proposed Multi-Use Trail Public Meeting

Tom Low, Town of Brighton Commissioner of Public Works
585.784.5225, thomas.low@townofbrighton.org.

Brighton, NY, July 3, 2009 – The Town of Brighton will hold a Public Meeting to review the concept of a multi-use trail connecting Town Hall and the Erie Canal. The meeting will be held on July 27th from 7pm-9pm at the Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Ave. The I-590 Bicycle / Pedestrian Bypass Trail Feasibility Study is nearing completion, and the Town wishes to gather additional feedback on the preferred trail alignment identified in the Draft Report.

In its 2000 Comprehensive Plan, the Town identified a concept for a trail connecting the Town Hall Complex on Elmwood Avenue to the Erie Canal at Meridian Centre Park. This Feasibility Study explores the viability of the whole corridor of the I-590 Bicycle / Pedestrian Bypass trail, with consideration given to location alternatives, design recommendations, funding sources, and phasing strategies.

The Preferred Trail Alignment map, along with the full Draft Report, is available on the Town’s website; http://www.townofbrighton.org/CivicAlerts.aspx.

CenterLines #229

CenterLines #229

-> "Every additional 30 minutes spent in a car each day translates into a 3 percent greater chance of being obese. People who live in neighborhoods with a mix of shops and businesses within easy walking distance are 7 percent less likely to be obese."
-- Lawrence Frank, University of British Columbia
http://tinyurl.com/ngwhxa

About StreetsWiki - Streetswiki - Livable Streets

About StreetsWiki - Streetswiki

treetsWiki . . .

What Should You Write on StreetsWiki?

• Profile: your street, city, or neighborhood.

  

  It doesn’t have to be famous! Just share what makes it tick (or not) like these articles on Portland, Oregon and the Cross-Bronx Expressway .

• Define: Livable Streets design elements, policies, and people.
  


Like these articles on David Ganttand Bike Bus .


• Expand: upon your area of expertise.
  


Like these articles on Quartier Vauban and the 1939 World's Fair Futurama exhibit.

• Share: best practices in advocacy and planning process.
  
  Like this article on DOT Appeals Process.

is a community-created, online encyclopedia for transportation, urban environmental, and public space issues.

It’s a place for ordinary people, planners, and academics to read and write about our cities and how we can make them more livable.

Cyclists slow down to avoid crater-sized 'hole' - Telegraph

Cyclists slow down to avoid crater-sized 'hole' - Telegraph

Cyclists were encouraged to slow down thanks to this crater-sized "hole" in the middle of a towpath.

Published: 7:00AM BST 18 Jun 2009

A woman looks into the three dimensional drawing Photo: GETTY

But the hole is an optical illusion, a three-dimensional drawing of a canyon, in an attempt to make careless cyclists hit the brakes rather than ride dangerously and ignore pedestrians.

Video: Davis, California, A Platinum Bike City

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Summary of the Benefits from Bicycling and Walking

http://www.railstotrails.org/resources/images/whatwedo/trailadvocacy/atfa/5.gif

Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2008 - Seattle, Washington

Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2008 - Seattle, Washington

Presentations

#2. Federal Funding for Nonmotorized Transportation and Recreation and the National Trails Training Partnership (Cascade II)
1) RTP Trails Nov 2008:
Presentation: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/rectrails/fundrec_pres.htm
2) RTP and TE Summary: includes both briefs listed below.
Recreational Trails Program Brief: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/rectrails/brief.htm
Transportation Enhancement Activities Brief:http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/te/brief.htm
3) New Approach for Transportation
USDOT Reform Proposal: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/rectrails/reauth_reform.htm
Christopher Douwes

The (National) Recreational Trails Program--NRTP
Greg Lovelady (155Kb PowerPoint Presentation)

#6. Adapting the Bike Sharing Concept to North America (St. Helens)
A Public Bicycle System in Metro Vancouver?
Eileen Kadesh and Andrew Curran (605Kb PDF Format)
Bike Sharing in North America
Eileen Kadesh and Andrew Curran (968Kb PDF Format)
SmartBike DC and How it Happened (for Free)
George Branyan (444Kb PowerPoint Presentation)

#16. Maps and Community Engaged Mapping (Cascade IA)
The Neighborhoods on Foot Map Series
Seth Schromen-Wawrin (13.6MB PowerPoint Presentation)

• #22. Encouraging Corporate Cycling Programs (Grand Crescent)
  Healthy Commute Choices at Chicago Public Schools
  Suzanne Carlson (388Kb PDF Format)
  
  
• #23. Bikes and Transit: Why and How (Vashon I & II)
  Bikes and Transit: Why and How
  Michelle Poyourow, Jessica Roberts and Carolyn Young (575Kb PDF Format)
  

• #37. Working With Youth (Cascade IC)
  Getting Your SRTS Project Funded
  Ryan Snyder (1Mb PDF Format)
  

• #52. Working With Local Governments (St. Helens)
  Local Government Action Infiltrate, Inspire, Influence 
  Karen Messmer (5MB PowerPoint Presentation)
  

• #55. Connecting the Dots: Biking, Public Health & Safety and Economic Development(Cascade IC)
  ProWalk /ProBike Seattle September 2008
  Malisa Mccreedy (2.5Mb PDF Format)
  

• #60. Bicycle Zone Analysis: A New Bicycle Planning Tool (Vashon I & II)
  Cycle Zone Analysis (CZA): A New Bicycle Transportation Planning Tool
  Developed for the Update of Portland’s Bicycle Master Plan
  Roger Geller, Denver Igarta, Mia Birk and Mike Rose (5MB PDF Format)
  

• #64. Understanding Tort Liability Challenges - (Cascade IC)
  Understanding Tort Liability and Challenges Presented by Bicycles
  Michael E. Tardif (413Kb PowerPoint Presentation)
  

#66. Designing Facilities for Bicyclists (Cascade II)
Thinking (and Building) Outside the MUTCD/AASHTO Box
Joshua Benson (3Mb PDF Format)

• #70. Safe Routes to School (St. Helens)
  Safe Routes to School
  Ellen Pillsbury (548Kb PowerPoint Presentation)
  
  
• Promoting Bicycle Transportation in a Rural County
  Ellen Barton (1MB PDF Format)
  

• #81. Comparing Small Area and Regional Scale Plans (Cascade IB)
  Walking and Biking the Busiest Roads Around Atlanta: a Bike/Ped Plan that establishes non-motorized transportation among regional-scale priorities.
  Regan Hammond (3.2Mb PowerPoint Presentation)
  

We Are BIXI - BIXI System

We Are BIXI - BIXI System: "We are BIXI"

Genessee Valley Greenway

Genesee Valley Greenway

(Coincides with our route from U of R North)

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a federal, state and local effort

Overview Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a federal, state and local effort to enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school and to make walking and bicycling to school safe and appealing. In New York, as in other parts of this country, travel to school by walking and bicycling has declined dramatically over the past several decades. The adverse impacts of this trend on air quality, traffic congestion and childhood health are alarming. The goal of New York's Safe Routes to School Program is to assist New York communities in developing and implementing projects and programs that encourage walking and bicycling to school while enhancing the safety of these trips. These programs can bring a wide range of benefits to students and the community. These include an easy way for children to get the regular physical activity they need for good health and even to ease traffic jams and reduce pollution around schools. A major goal of the program is to increase bicycle, pedestrian and traffic safety. Successful Safe Routes to School programs in the United States usually includes one or more of these approaches engineering, enforcement, education, encouragement. Local and regional government, schools and community non-profit organizations ready, willing and able to implement SRTS initiatives are eligible to apply for funding. Applications are available for projects and programs to improve the health and safety of New York children who bike or walk to school. The program is open to all New York municipalities and school districts. Safe Routes to School Brochure

What is Twin Cities Streets for People? | Twin Cities Streets for People

What is Twin Cities Streets for People? | Twin Cities Streets for People

Imagine KC from Arnold Imaging on Vimeo.

Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending

Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending

Projects in Rochester, New York

Below are the "shovel-ready" projects for which this city submitted in the 2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors report. You can click on a project to read (and add to) its description. You can also discuss the project and vote on whether you believe it is critical or not.

The total cost of all the projects submitted by Rochester is $50,946,000

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Copenhagenize.com - The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog: Copenhagen Winter Cycling

Copenhagenize.com - Winter Cycling from Colville Andersen on Vimeo.

Scenes from a cycling life in Copenhagen during the winter. Featuring some of the 400,000 citizens who choose the bicycle throughout the wint

COPENHAGENIZE.COM

Each and every day 500,000 people ride their bicycle to work or school in Copenhagen. This blog highlights who they are, why they do and how it was made possible.

Forty years ago Copenhagen was just as car-clogged as anywhere else but now 55% of the population choose the bicycle. 37% in the Greater Metropolitan area. Copenhagenizing is possible anywhere.