Car-Free Cities Conference / Examples of city support for bike co-op?
Hello Think-Tankers!
I am going to the Towards Car-Free Cities conferencehttp://carfree.mx/mx/?tag=englishthis next month, and I will be doing a presentation/workshop on bike co-ops! First of all, is anyone else from a co-op or bike project planning to go? I think it will be a very educational and inspiring conference, let me know if you are going.
Second, I am focusing my presentation on how bike co-ops are a fantastic addition to a transportation system, and how city governments should support them. Does anyone have any good examples of a city or other government agency providing a free space, or funding, or other support for a bike co-op? I already have the Austin Yellow Bike story of how the city helped them get their land...
Thank you!
Bobby Gadda The Bicycle Kitchen in Los Angeles
Our city's transportation dept is really supportive. They regularly invite us to collaborate on events, and are including us in a few upcoming grants. In 2009 the city used federal transportation funding to send a few of us to NYC for LAB cycling instructor training, and we have since been invited to teach courses (paid) that they organize. In the long run, as far as I understand, they want to get out of the education/service rendering game, and they see our org and a few other environmental NGOs as filling in the gap.
Clifford
On Saturday, August 20, 2011, Bobby Gadda bgadda@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Think-Tankers!
I am going to the Towards Car-Free Cities conference <
http://carfree.mx/mx/?tag=english%3E this next month, and I will be doing a presentation/workshop on bike co-ops! First of all, is anyone else from a co-op or bike project planning to go? I think it will be a very educational and inspiring conference, let me know if you are going.
Second, I am focusing my presentation on how bike co-ops are a fantastic
addition to a transportation system, and how city governments should support them. Does anyone have any good examples of a city or other government agency providing a free space, or funding, or other support for a bike co-op? I already have the Austin Yellow Bike story of how the city helped them get their land...
Thank you!
Bobby Gadda The Bicycle Kitchen in Los Angeles
I know that Community Cycles in Boulder, CO has two workshops, one of which was donated by the city or county. I'm pretty sure they get funding too; when I visited last summer, an employee I met said that his salary was paid for by city/county funds.
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Co-Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
Hello Think-Tankers!
I am going to the Towards Car-Free Cities conferencehttp://carfree.mx/mx/?tag=englishthis next month, and I will be doing a presentation/workshop on bike co-ops! First of all, is anyone else from a co-op or bike project planning to go? I think it will be a very educational and inspiring conference, let me know if you are going.
Second, I am focusing my presentation on how bike co-ops are a fantastic addition to a transportation system, and how city governments should support them. Does anyone have any good examples of a city or other government agency providing a free space, or funding, or other support for a bike co-op? I already have the Austin Yellow Bike story of how the city helped them get their land...
Thank you!
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Yep, that's right. We have a great relationship with our City and County.
The County gives us our north storage space in one of the garage buildings where they keep their heavy machinery.
The City is a huge supporter and we get several contracts and grants from them including Walk & Bike month and the Bike Ambassadors, whom Ryan mentions. The BAs run educational components for CC including tabling, rolling bike clinics, bike rodeos and workshops to businesses and other organizations that want to promote biking.
Someone else from CC can probably give you way more info with better specifics than what I just wrote, but it all really comes down to Boulder being bike-friendly and really looking to make it a better place for cycling. We're one of 3 platinum level bike friendly cities, which may just be a title, but it what it does mean is that Boulder puts thought and effort into biking in the community and, luckily, strives for more than "oh, we got platinum and now, it's done".
We do all kinds of other things with the City and they recognize that we can potentially reach many more cyclists than they can all by themselves for so many reasons.
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Wanda Pelegrina Caldas Community Cycles, Boulder's only non-profit bike shop Become a member or sponsor an Earn-A-Biker today. Use our secure online donation form. Thanks!!
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:10:58 -0400 From: ryan@bikebroward.org To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Car-Free Cities Conference / Examples of city support for bike co-op?
I know that Community Cycles in Boulder, CO has two workshops, one of which was donated by the city or county. I'm pretty sure they get funding too; when I visited last summer, an employee I met said that his salary was paid for by city/county funds.
Thank you!
Ryan Feller, Co-Director Bike Broward (954) 232-3790 www.bikebroward.org
Hello Think-Tankers!
I am going to the Towards Car-Free Cities conferencehttp://carfree.mx/mx/?tag=englishthis next month, and I will be doing a presentation/workshop on bike co-ops! First of all, is anyone else from a co-op or bike project planning to go? I think it will be a very educational and inspiring conference, let me know if you are going.
Second, I am focusing my presentation on how bike co-ops are a fantastic addition to a transportation system, and how city governments should support them. Does anyone have any good examples of a city or other government agency providing a free space, or funding, or other support for a bike co-op? I already have the Austin Yellow Bike story of how the city helped them get their land...
Thank you!
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Bobby,
Jess Linz and I will be attending the conference as well. We moved to Guadalajara from Cincinnati, where we helped run MoBo Bicycle Co-op, a week ago and are getting involved here with the folks at GDL en Bicihttp://gdlenbici.org/, which runs a shop called Casa Ciclista (the Bike Kitchen helped get that project off the ground by donating tools).
We're really looking forward to your presentation, Bobby, and to the conference as a whole, which sounds like it's going to be really great. I definitely encourage anyone thinking about coming to do so- bike activism here is vibrant and the community is awesome! Also, Jess and I will almost certainly have floor space available by the time of the conference!
Dugan Meyer
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Bobby Gadda bgadda@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Think-Tankers!
I am going to the Towards Car-Free Cities conferencehttp://carfree.mx/mx/?tag=englishthis next month, and I will be doing a presentation/workshop on bike co-ops! First of all, is anyone else from a co-op or bike project planning to go? I think it will be a very educational and inspiring conference, let me know if you are going.
Second, I am focusing my presentation on how bike co-ops are a fantastic addition to a transportation system, and how city governments should support them. Does anyone have any good examples of a city or other government agency providing a free space, or funding, or other support for a bike co-op? I already have the Austin Yellow Bike story of how the city helped them get their land...
Thank you!
Bobby Gadda The Bicycle Kitchen in Los Angeles
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Bobby Gadda -
Clifford McCarten [B!KE] -
Dugan Meyer -
Ryan Feller -
Wanda Pelegrina