Here’s a slide show of some of our amazing friends and family that turned out for the launch of mybikelaw. Many thanks to PFE Photo for the wonderful photography.
RIDE IN CELEBRATION OF
THE LIFE & VISION OF EDWIN GARDNER
A Short Bicycle Ride Around Downtown Charleston
Saturday, July 31st @ 9 a.m.
Start/Finish Cannon Park (Calhoun Street between Ashley and Rutledge)
We invite folks of all ages, and not just those in cycling groups, to ride together to celebrate Edwin and his vision for Charleston. Bring your kids.
The ride will stay below the Crosstown and will have a police escort. Participants are invited to ride everyday bikes and wear everyday clothes. This is not an exclusive event for “cyclists” but a chance for all to enjoy Charleston streets by bike, the way Edwin did everyday.
We celebrate Gardner as a spectacularly complete person. Edwin was a bicycle advocate like Thomas Jefferson was a farmer. Daily bicycling was a part of the ideal life he championed.
Bike helmets encouraged.
Breakfast and fellowship after the Ride at Cannon Park.
This is a good news story from our press conference about the needs for bike lanes in Charleston. SCDOT has so far refused to stripe the lanes, despite requests from 2000 citizens, the City of Charleston, and the County! What does it take to get decent accommodation? SCDOT is pitiful. Channel 4 Coverage
Take a look at the Bike Month calendar for Charleston. Lots happening! Bike Month Calendar
Greetings, fellow cyclists!
We hope those of you that made it last week to Chris Kluth’s discussion on “From 50,000-feet to 5-feet: Bring a Vision to Reality” enjoyed it. This Thursday we’re excited to introduce Don Sparks & the Panel of metro-Charleston planner’s discussion on “The Fear & Romance of Cycling in Charleston”.
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Event Details:
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Don Sparks is the founding President of Charleston Bicycle Advocacy Group (CBAG) and is a Board Member of the Palmetto Cycling Coalition, a state-wide bicycle advocacy organization. He is a member of the CHATS Standing Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (the Charleston MPO’s transportation planning arm) and serves on the Enhancements Committee. Don is helping with the South Carolina Department of Transportation’s Bicycle Policy Committee. He is an avid cyclist, having ridden cross country with his wife Katherine on their tandem in 1993. In addition, he has cycled extensively in other parts of the United States, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, France, Australia and Southern Africa. Don is member of the Adventure Cycling Association, Coastal Cyclists, Tandem Club of America, the International Randonneurs and is a Life Member of the League of American Bicyclists.
Currently, Don is the Professor of International Economics at the Citadel, and has served on the academic board of directors of the University of South Carolina’s Center for Environmental Policy. Before coming to the Citadel, Don served as a staff assistant to Senator Hollings in Washington, DC and as an economist with the US Department of State. He has presented papers or been an invited participant at the Car Free Cities Conference in Copenhagen (1996), the Velo Austria World Bicycle Conference in Perth, Australia (1997) and ProBike Conference in Santa Barbara, California (1998). He has been a consultant to a number of international organizations, including the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in Gland, Switzerland and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, Austria. In 1996-97 he was Senior Fulbright Professor of Economics at the University of Swaziland. Dr Sparks received his BA from the George Washington University and his MA and PhD from the University of London.
The Panel Discussion that follows the talk will cover the efforts of area politicians, planners, and transportation experts to make biking safe and viable. The audience will participate.
Come have your voice heard by people that can make a difference!
Post-event discussions at Fish.
See you on Thursday!
Ann will be attending “Writing Women Back into Bicycling: Changing Transportation Culture to Encourage More Women to Cycle” this afternoon. See: http://www.apbp.org/event/women_in_cycling.
Tom Bradford is spearheading this effort in Charleston to gain bike lanes on Maybank Highway. We need 5000 signatures on Mayor Riley’s desk by Monday so please do your part and sign the petition and pass it along!
http://www.bikecharleston.org/advocacy.html
We hope everyone enjoyed William Gallagher’s discussion on “Bicycles & Transit Lead the Way to a More Livable Community”. The series continues with Preston Tyree’s lecture on “The Shape of Bicycle Activism”
Here are the details:
Speaker – Preston Tyree from The League of American Bicyclists
Topic – The Shape of Bicycle Activism
Date & Time – Thursday MARCH 25TH – 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Location – South End Brewery, 161 East Bay Street
Preston Tyree has transitioned from Chemical Engineer to successful International marketing executive to small business owner to bicycle advocate/educator. His work in advocacy/education gives him great satisfaction; seeing people’s faces light up as they “get it.” Whether it is a special technique to make their cycling safer and more fun or whether it is a concept about how he can get the city government on board.
As Education Director for the League of American Bicyclists, Tyree’s work encompasses training new instructors, communicating with 1,200 current instructors, speaking to local organizations, testifying in court, writing curricula and playing with young riders on bikes.
See you Thursday!
Many of you may already know that 76,000 Americans have been hit by cars while walking or biking in their communities in the last 15 years. That’s because most of America’s roads are designed for cars – and for cars only. That doesn’t make any sense in a country where one in three people doesn’t have access to a car and where half of all trips could be accomplished with a 20-minute bike ride. A new bill just introduced in Congress will jumpstart the process of transforming our transportation infrastructure to make it friendlier to bikers and walkers – the Active Community Transportation Act (H.R. 4722). It will create a federal grant program to fund local projects aimed at improving conditions for pedestrians and cyclists. Your help is necessary in asking our representatives in Congress to co-sponsor this bill. Use this link…it just takes a second.
http://action.smartgrowthamerica.org/t/3224/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2434
aeg: The Charlotte area cycling community is reeling from yesterday’s news that bicycle racer Adam Little was killed while commuting to work yesterday morning. According to reports, the driver tried to flee the scene but was found and is now charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle. Adam was 35 years old, married and had 2 children under the age of five. By all accounts, he was a kind hearted person who will be greatly missed. See comments at: http://charlottevelo.com/2010/03/17/adam-little/. Our thoughts are with Adam, his family and loved ones.
We hope everyone enjoyed Dave Moulton’s lecture last week on the “The Bicycle: Evolution or Intelligent Design?”. The series continues tonight with William Gallagher’s discussion on “Bicycles & Transit Lead the Way to a More Livable Community”.
Here are the details:
Speaker – William Gallagher
Topic – Bicycles & Transit Lead the Way to a More Livable Community
Date & Time – Thursday MARCH 4TH (TONIGHT!) – 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Location – South End Brewery, 161 East Bay Street
Bill Gallagher is a principal at KGP Design Studio where he leads the urban design and transportation studios. He and his partners have been designing transit stations, creating station area plans and designing related buildings for the past 25 years in the states as well as Asia and the Middle East. KGP just completed the first Bicycle Transit Center on the East Coast in Washington, DC, which has become a “cult” hit in the bicycling community and has been described by the Mayor as the “coolest bike facility in the country”.
Currently Bill is heading the firm’s design on the Purple Line, a light rail circumferential line around the north side of Washington DC which includes a bike trail and station area planning. The firm is also designing the prototype stations of the Honolulu Transit System and new stations and entrances for the Washington Metro. Other projects include housing, office and a glass stair from the Kennedy Center to the Potomac River, connecting to the bike path, promenade and future water taxi.
Bill has a Masters in Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University where he rode his bike to class everyday – including the winter months in Boston. He currently lives in downtown DC where he continues to ride his bike to work parking next to his desk in the studio. He is one of approximately 10,000 other bicyclists who ride daily in DC. Bikes are not just for pleasure; they’ve become a cool way to get around town! Bikes are leading the way to a more “livable” community.
See you tonight!