A neighborhood open house has been scheduled for Thursday, January 5^th to discuss the street rehabilitation project for 24^th Avenue (from Chambers St to Jefferson St).  Please join us for a presentation and discussion on design alternatives for this street.  Alternatives discussed will include removing on-street parking on one side of the street, installing bicycle facilities, and changing the nature of existing traffic calming devices.

Come and give your input on how this road rehabilitation could help you on your active transportation commute to and from school.

Agenda:

§  Presentation of alternative street configurations
§  Questions and answers
§  Discuss project timeline

Location:      Adams Elementary School (Cafeteria/Multipurpose Room) 950 West 22^nd Avenue, Eugene, OR 97405
Date:                 Thursday, January 5^th
Time:                7:00 to 8:30 pm

Questions? Please contact Reed Dunbar at reed.c.dunbar@ci.eugene.or.us or (541) 682-5727

Reed Dunbar, AICP
Associate Transportation Planner
City of Eugene Public Works
99 E. Broadway, Suite 400
Eugene, OR 97401-3174
Phone:  541-682-5727
Fax:  541-682-5598
www.eugene-or.gov/transportation

Here’s a little Holiday Coloring Fun to kick off the second-to-last-day of school before the winter break.

Download a full .pdf version to color here —–> SantaHaul-1PDF

Thanks to Travis Wittwer of BikeNounVerb for creating and sharing the holiday hauling love.

This message is from our partners at the Safe Routes to School National Partnership:

Time to Weigh in with Congress on Complete Streets

Contact your Senators today!

While we continue to work to preserve federal funding for bicycling and walking, there is an opportunity this week to ensure that federally funded transportation projects accommodate the needs and safety of all users—including pedestrians and bicyclists. This would be a real chance to see Complete Streets policies enacted in every state.

On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will consider an amendment offered by Alaska Senator Mark Begich to provide safe and adequate accommodations for all users in all federally-funded street projects. This means safer roads for everyone, including those who walk, bicycle, ride transit, or drive cars.

We need you to voice your support TODAY for the Senator Begich amendment to S. 1950 on “safety for motorized and nonmotorized users.”

If your Senator is on the Commerce Committee, you will see a letter asking them to vote for the Begich amendment. If your Senator is not a member of the Commerce Committee, you will instead see a letter asking them to cosponsor Complete Streets legislation.

This is the first time in over six years that our federal representatives will take a vote on Complete Streets language—take action now!

This cool graphic is inding it’s way all over the net…(Update) and it turns out it’s a viral marketing campaign and links to the Healthcare Management Degree website.. but it’s a good graphic still the same.

Created by: Healthcare Management Degree

We recently received a bunch of clip on blinking lights. I delivered some of these to the secretaries at all four of our SRTS schools so that they could hand them out to students that they see walking and riding to school. If you walk or roll to school and could use some illumination–check with the secretary at your school!

Ever since I heard about the Traffic Garden idea from a webinar about a FHWA “best practices” trip abroad I’ve wanted to do something similar in Eugene, maybe incorporated with some other ‘bike skill’ pieces like a mini-mountain bike park. Someday, someday…

October’s International Walk and Bike to School Day kicked off year two of Bethel’s Safe Routes to School Grant! Despite the chilly, wet weather, lots of kids from Irving, Malabon, Meadow View and Prairie Mountain used body power to get to school! In year two we will continue to encourage walking and biking to school and we are concentrating our focus on Walk and Bike Wednesdays!!

Year two also has us getting started on our bike fleet! We purchased eleven bikes and are working to add more until we have a fleet of 30-35 bikes. These bikes will be used to teach bicycle safety education to Fifth graders. Some of our fifth grade teachers recently completed a course in bike safety education. They are eagerly awaiting the completion of our fleet so they can get the kids out and riding in the spring!

Pedestrian Safety education for second graders will continue this year as well!

To promote using body power to get to school I am going into the gyms and teaching PE! I have a time set at each of the four schools—so when teachers sign up I get to teach their PE classes and promote walking and biking.

Students getting to school with a bike or a walk—made safer by neighbors watching the block!
Get out there and use body power to get to school!!

Hey Folks,

I am still looking for a few more volunteers to help out with a community bike ride for the bike safety classes at Hamlin Middle School on November 2nd. As a volunteer you can do anything from ride along with the class, acting as an extra set of eyes, to helping to make sure students stop all the way at stop signs and/or stop lights. Having volunteers makes these rides run more smoothly and safely. And it gives the students a nice chance to see how cool bike people are! If you have never gotten a chance to come out to a bike safety class, you should join us!

Here is the info:

When: November 2nd
Where: Hamlin Middle School, Springfield
Class Times:
1st period: 8:20-9:09
2nd period: 9:10-10:03
3rd period:10:00-10:57

If you are interested in joining us, send me an email with the class times you are available for and plan on showing up to the school 15 minutes before class for check in and get some info about the ride. Come for just one or all three!

Thanks! I hope to see you all soon!

Clare Gordon
gordonc@bta4bikes.org