Bike Erie

Barber Center bike education program

SUNY Oneonta senior Jami Haynes set off on a 4,200-mile, cross-country bike adventure Tuesday with the goal of raising awareness about the Harvest of Hope Foundation, an organization that provides emergency assistance to migrant workers and their families. Haynes will be passing through Mohawk, Utica, Chittenango, Central Square, Syracuse, Fairport, Buffalo, North Tonawanda, Lackawanna, and Erie, Pa., this week, before heading toward Cleveland.

"Biking boomed in communities across the country, doubling from 1.7 billion trips in 2001 to more than four billion trips in 2009. That growth is being pedaled forward by youth, women, and people of color - who are playing a key role in shifting transportation demand towards safe, accessible, and equitable bicycling infrastructure."

Erie Ped / Bike Prioritization Program/ Bayfront Trails Establish a prioritized ped / bike /trail network along the Bayfront Parkway and study the feasibility of existing and future improvements, key corridors,special facility design, and maintenance ‐ Multi‐municipal Ped / Bike Prioritization Program/ Erie Metro Area Establish a prioritized ped / bike /trail network within the Erie Metro Area and study the feasibility of existing and future improvements, key corridors,special facility design, and maintenance ‐ Countywide Ped / Bike Prioritization Program/ Erie County Establish a prioritized ped / bike /trail network for Erie County's outlying municipalities and study the feasibility of existing and future improvements, key corridors,special facility design, and maintenance

In the recent flurry of local authority initiatives to promote cycling, the focus has been on junctions, cycle lanes, lorries and training. One question seems be almost totally neglected: "Where could I keep a bike?" For many people, a lack of secure storage rules out cycling completely.

"Encouraging bicycling helps local economies"

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The building's interior would have appropriate conveniences such as seating, free wi-fi and computer/laptop recharging sites, restrooms, changing/shower facilities, ATM, coffee shop/snack bar/newsstand, storage lockers, security, ticket terminals, intermodal arrival/departure display monitors, and similar resources. Outside of the hub station would be a solar-lighted/heated transit/intercity bus shelter for each direction of the adjacent route(s); a minimum of six sheltered solar-powered EV charging/plug-in stations; sheltered bicycle parking racks; a quick-fix bicycle service station; a taxicab stand; and a minimum of 50 carpool/vanpool parking spaces. Alternative energy vehicles shall be given priority parking locations along with those for the disabled nearest the hub station. Throughout the site, appropriate and native landscaping would be utilized for cooling/shade in the summer months and to deflect winter winds whenever practical. Recycling and waste containers will be located throughout the interior and exterior of the site and all exterior lighting would be solar-powered, as well. Gray water from the hub station will be used for the trees and plantings. For those cities fortunate enough to have commuter rail or light rail, every attempt should be made to link the Ecomodal Hub to a railroad passenger station. Otherwise, it should be situated in close proximity. Ecomodal Hubs should also be located adjacent to or very close to important transit routes and major bicycle commuting corridors/trails.

Cycling campaigners are calling for a new law in Scotland to make motorists automatically at fault in an accident. The UK is one of only five European countries that do not currently have the law, known as "strict liability". Campaigners, including the mother of a 32-year-old Edinburgh man killed in a collision with a lorry in 2011, said the law would help reduce the number of cyclists killed and injured. But critics said it was unfair, and smacked of the "arrogance" of cyclists. Craig Newton, 32, died in a collision with a City of Edinburgh council lorry Seven cyclists were killed and more than 150 were seriously injured on Scottish roads during 2011, according to Transport Scotland figures. Under a strict liability law, motorists would be held responsible in the civil courts for all accidents involving cyclists - unless they can prove they were not to blame. Supporters of the Campaign for Strict Liability say it would greatly reduce the time it takes for accident victims to win compensation. Lynda Myles, whose son Craig Newton died after he was involved in a collision with a City of Edinburgh council lorry, said she fully supported the idea. "Over the two years since Craig's death, our whole family has been emotionally exhausted trying to make sense of what happened to him on that morning," she said.