People like you ! Find out who is riding bikes in Charlotte and why and how frequently. Find out what they think of the progress made to expand the bike infrastructure. Find out how often folks ride bikes. Find out who knows what a “sharrow” is. This and more !
Interested in viewing it ? CLICK: Survey 2012
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New website for UNC Charlotte’s Urban Institute – “Plan Charlotte”
Check out this summary of current progress. Quotes from Allison Billings, transportation consultant to Charlotte Center City Partners, Dan Gallagher, planner with CDOT and Martin Zimmerman from CABA. According to Allison, the goal is to launch a fleet of 200 cycles at 20 stations in and around Uptown. See also past CABA posts by entering the words “bike share” in the search box on this page.
CLICK: Plan Charlotte to read the entire story.
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From Uptown to UNCC in the vicinity of the proposed Blue Line light rail
Otherwise know as the “NECI Vision Plan” presented by Maya Agarwal of Alta Design. A combination of off-road, on-road, and urban cycletracks or sidepaths like those commonplace in Holland and elsewhere in Europe. This project, originally a CABA initiative, truly represents “out of the box” creativity. Thanks to Andrew Street and many volunteers who served on the stakeholder committee throughout the process. Enter “NECI” in the search box of this page to see previous posts.
To see a map of the NE Light Rail Corridor, CLICK: Map
To read the NECI Vision Study by Alta Design, CLICK: The Vision
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THIRD ANNUAL SURVEY OF BICYCLE USER NEEDS - It is time again to take a reading of the community – cyclists and non-cyclists alike. This survey is being sent to several thousand area residents. The goal is to gauge the public’s needs, habits, and desires. We invite you to take a few minutes to complete our survey. We also encourage you to forward it onto people you know.
Deadline extended till Wednesday, Feb. 8. Results will be shared with all interested parties including civic leadership and government agencies, and will be available on the CABA website and Facebook. You need not be a cyclist to fill out this survey.
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Message from Martin Zimmerman, CABA Exec. Director ~ ~
In mid-October I returned from a pretty remarkable 3 – week trip…..to Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg, three of the most successful “bike-sharing” cities in Europe. In Paris I interviewed Monseur Albert Asseraf, the JC Decaux company representative for the “Velib” bike-share system (20,000 bikes; usage increase of 20% over last year). I met with him and the JCD maintenance and repair guys on a barge along the Seine just a stone’s throw from the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Met with other insiders and community activists in Lyon and Strasbourg whose successful bike share systems predate Paris’. Pedaled the systems in all three cities to gauge the quantity and quality of the bike infrastructure and check out what segments of society are actually using bikes on an everyday basis. (Lyon is about as good as it gets). I took the subways, trams, trains and boats (and of course walked for miles in each city) to view how the transportation systems were integrated.
Bike sharing systems are simply well-managed fleets of high-quality bikes available for short-term affordable credit card rental at various locations within cities. There are now more than 375 systems in 33 countries. (For more on bike sharing - use the Search box on this page or CLICK: Bike Share.)
The results of this trip will be used by CABA as a public service to inform local decision-makers who are just beginning to consider its feasibility in the Queen City, possibly in concert with the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
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Charlotte Cycling Guide – 2nd Edition – Check out your friendly neighborhood bike shop and you will find it. Slightly revised from the 2009 version. Includes 10 new marked routes with special signage, complete list of allied organizations, including CABA, safety tips, bike shop links etc. etc. High quality graphic design just like the previous map.
To download from CDOT website, CLICK: Map. Scroll down halfway, locate the link for Charlotte Cycling Guide, right click on it, select on the Short Cut Menu “Save As”, select where in your computer you want to save it to, and wait for the 45 MB file to download.
If you want a hard copy go to any local bike shop. Thanks to Paul (we don’t know his last name) who sent us this comment.
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Across Europe, irking drivers is urban policy - Sorry. A bit late posting this one. But it’s a must read !
From NYTimes, Environment page, June 26: ” While American cities are synchronizing green lights to improve traffic flow and offering apps to help drivers find parking, many European cities are doing the opposite: creating environments openly hostile to cars. The methods vary, but the mission is clear — to make car use expensive and just plain miserable enough to tilt drivers toward more environmentally friendly modes of transportation…” Thanks to Shannon Binns of local CABA affiliate, Sustain Charlotte, for sending us this article. CLICK: What’s your excuse ? to read the entire piece.
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