Archive for December, 2009
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Author: Ed Smith
High School Bike Bus from Keri Caffrey on Vimeo.
Read more about these Orlando High School kids riding their bikes to school.
Author: Ed Smith
Please join the Fresno County Bicycle Coalition as we ride in the 80th Annual Fresno Christmas Parade! It’s tomorrow, and I just received notice that the parade is planned rain or shine. I noticed the workers assembling the grandstands outside City Hall. So plan to dress in your warm Christmas finery and come on downtown tomorrow morning!
We are Division #4, Entry #424.
The parade will be broadcast live on KSEE 24 with no commercial interruptions, so dress in your best holiday attire and put on your bright smiles. The following information below details where to park and the staging process.
Parking for all parade participants, including school buses, and drop-off for parade participants is in the Executive Plaza parking lot on Broadway Place and Fresno Street.
**All parade participants will need to be in Christmas apparel throughout the parade.**
We are a bicycle entry, so please ride your bicycle and bring small children in bicycle trailers! Decorate your bicycle like a Christmas Tree! YOU MUST HAVE A HELMET, but I recommend decorating it with flashing lights, jingly bells, tinsel, or antlers.
Our division, Division #4, will Enter at Inyo and H/Broadway Street.
We will be staged on Van Ness (Between Tulare and Inyo).
This is a televised, family event. Santa is watching, so don’t be naughty. Call me at the number below at any time with any questions.
PLEASE COME!!
Author: Ed Smith
Feel like you are going in circles in Roundabouts? Want to better understand how they work, their purpose, and why the City of Fresno and developers are choosing to install them more? At 4pm today (Thursday), City of Fresno Traffic Engineer Bryan Jones will be making a presentation before City Council on Roundabouts and be available to answer questions. Roundabouts are somewhat new to our region and education is critical to anything new. We have more than 500 traffic signals but fewer than ten roundabouts. Click on the following link below to watch it live on the Internet if you cannot make it down to Council Chambers. Although it may not be heard on time at 4pm, it will not be heard before 4pm.
Author: Ed Smith
From Street Films, an interesting discussion about Bicycle Boulevards, including case studies from cities that have successfully implemented them. Also, a link to a bicycle boulevard design guide from Portland.
