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www.sbbike.org March 2004 Serving Santa Barbara County We’re a countywide advocacy and resource organization that promotes bicycling for safe transportation and recreation. How to reach us Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition PO Box 92047 Santa Barbara CA 93190-2047 phone 962-1479 email [email protected] web www.sbbike.org March 2nd meeting Join us on Tuesday, March 2nd for our monthly meeting. Let’s improve bicycling in 2004: Tuesday, 12:00 noon County Public Works Conference Room, 1st Floor 123 East Anapamu Street Santa Barbara, California Online email list We sponsor an online email forum where you can post and read messages that pertain to regional bicycling issues. It’s easy and free. To subscribe to our general forum, just send an email message to: [email protected] Leave the subject line and body of the message blank. That’s all! Join the Coalition You can help improve bicycling safety and condi- tions in Santa Barbara County by joining others in our own regional Bicycle Coalition advocacy group. Together we will continue to make a real difference. See page 6 for details. For sale: video & flag We’re pleased to offer our own video “Decide to Ride.” It’s about a young woman who learns to bike commute to work. It’s only $18 (tax and US shipping included) from us, address above. Plus, we’re selling Bike Week flags, 4’x6’ heavy nylon, terra cotta and white. They’re $33 plus tax. Look at this PDF file: www.sbbike.org/art-home/ flag.pdf International bicycling symposium features Mayor Marty Blum This March 4th, Santa Barbara Mayor Marty Blum will address attendees at the International Symposium on Bicycle Friendly Communities in Washington DC. The symposium is sponsored by the national League of American Bicyclists, the organization that recognized Santa Barbara last year as one of our country’s “Bicycle-Friendly” Communities. The symposium is open to mayors and munici- pal elected officials from around the world. The opening address will be given by Enrique Penalosa, the mayor of Bogata, Columbia, who is responsible for initiating car-free days that have become very popular and successful. Mayor Blum will offer a 15-minute afternoon presentation about what the City, its staff, the Bi- cycle Coalition, and all us great bicyclists have accomplished here. On February 13, Bicycle Coa- lition president Ralph Fertig and the City’s mo- bility coordinator Dru van Hengel met with Blum for over an hour discussing achievements that promote local bicycling. We feel that she has more than enough material to impress everybody. The event will certainly promote bicycling in BIKE IDEAS. Mayor Marty Blum (left) discussed local bicycling before leaving for Washington with the Bicycle Coalition’s Dru van Hengel and Ralph Fertig. Santa Barbara, but more important, it will bring elected officials together to discuss how to best encourage more bicycling in their communities. We hope that a video of the conference will be available so we can all learn what happened. The Goleta Valley Cycling Club (GVCC), a South Coast bicycling group with over 130 members, has proposed that we join them in producing and sharing profits from their annual People Powered Ride (PPR). The ride, now in its 25th year, attracts several hundred cyclists for three rides up to 100 miles long. Because they have done it for so many con- Goleta cycling club proposes partnership CYCLISTS MEET. Host for the People Powered Ride Brooks Firestone meets with GVCC members for breakfast on February 14 to discuss regional bicycling issues. secutive years, most of the details are easily du- plicated. However, every ride takes volunteers to help mark the courses, register, staff food stops, patrol the course, troubleshoot emergencies, and clean up afterwards. Areas where the GVCC feels we could be espe- cially helpful are obtaining permits (from the CHP, Sheriff, City of Solvang, the County), raising additional sponsors for food and raffle prizes, supplying home-made goodies to eat, promotion to regional cyclists, and designing needed art. On February 14, the GVCC held its monthly meeting and discussed PPR issues with Brooks Firestone who offers his ranch facilities near Los Olivos for the ride start and post-ride party. The Club voted to partner with us if we decide to accept. We previously considered having our own ride May 15th during Bike Week, but no decision was reached. So the questions before us now are whether we’re willing to help with fund raisers like the PPR, like a Bike Week ride, both, or nei- ther. This important issue will be discussed at our March 2nd monthly meeting.

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www.sbbike.org March 2004

Serving Santa BarbaraCountyWe’re a countywide advocacyand resource organizationthat promotes bicycling forsafe transportation andrecreation.

How to reach usSanta Barbara BicycleCoalitionPO Box 92047Santa Barbara CA 93190-2047

phone 962-1479email [email protected] www.sbbike.org

March 2nd meetingJoin us on Tuesday, March2nd for our monthly meeting.Let’s improve bicycling in 2004:Tuesday, 12:00 noonCounty Public WorksConference Room, 1st Floor123 East Anapamu StreetSanta Barbara, California

Online email listWe sponsor an online emailforum where you can post andread messages that pertain toregional bicycling issues. It’seasy and free. To subscribe toour general forum, just sendan email message to:[email protected]

Leave the subject line andbody of the message blank.That’s all!

Join the CoalitionYou can help improvebicycling safety and condi-tions in Santa Barbara Countyby joining others in our ownregional Bicycle Coalitionadvocacy group. Together wewill continue to make a realdifference. See page 6 fordetails.

For sale: video & flagWe’re pleased to offer our ownvideo “Decide to Ride.” It’sabout a young woman wholearns to bike commute towork. It’s only $18 (tax andUS shipping included) fromus, address above.Plus, we’re selling Bike Weekflags, 4’x6’ heavy nylon, terracotta and white. They’re $33plus tax. Look at this PDF file:www.sbbike.org/art-home/flag.pdf

International bicycling symposiumfeatures Mayor Marty Blum

This March 4th, Santa Barbara Mayor MartyBlum will address attendees at the InternationalSymposium on Bicycle Friendly Communities inWashington DC. The symposium is sponsored bythe national League of American Bicyclists, theorganization that recognized Santa Barbara lastyear as one of our country’s “Bicycle-Friendly”Communities.

The symposium is open to mayors and munici-pal elected officials from around the world. Theopening address will be given by EnriquePenalosa, the mayor of Bogata, Columbia, who isresponsible for initiating car-free days that havebecome very popular and successful.

Mayor Blum will offer a 15-minute afternoonpresentation about what the City, its staff, the Bi-cycle Coalition, and all us great bicyclists haveaccomplished here. On February 13, Bicycle Coa-lition president Ralph Fertig and the City’s mo-bility coordinator Dru van Hengel met withBlum for over an hour discussing achievementsthat promote local bicycling. We feel that she hasmore than enough material to impress everybody.

The event will certainly promote bicycling in

BIKE IDEAS. Mayor Marty Blum (left) discussed localbicycling before leaving for Washington with theBicycle Coalition’s Dru van Hengel and Ralph Fertig.

Santa Barbara, but more important, it will bringelected officials together to discuss how to bestencourage more bicycling in their communities.We hope that a video of the conference will beavailable so we can all learn what happened.

The Goleta Valley Cycling Club (GVCC), a SouthCoast bicycling group with over 130 members,has proposed that we join them in producing andsharing profits from their annual People PoweredRide (PPR).

The ride, now in its 25th year, attracts severalhundred cyclists for three rides up to 100 mileslong. Because they have done it for so many con-

Goleta cycling club proposes partnership

CYCLISTS MEET. Host for the People Powered RideBrooks Firestone meets with GVCC members for breakfaston February 14 to discuss regional bicycling issues.

secutive years, most of the details are easily du-plicated. However, every ride takes volunteers tohelp mark the courses, register, staff food stops,patrol the course, troubleshoot emergencies, andclean up afterwards.

Areas where the GVCC feels we could be espe-cially helpful are obtaining permits (from theCHP, Sheriff, City of Solvang, the County), raisingadditional sponsors for food and raffle prizes,supplying home-made goodies to eat, promotionto regional cyclists, and designing needed art.

On February 14, the GVCC held its monthlymeeting and discussed PPR issues with BrooksFirestone who offers his ranch facilities near LosOlivos for the ride start and post-ride party. TheClub voted to partner with us if we decide to accept.

We previously considered having our own rideMay 15th during Bike Week, but no decision wasreached. So the questions before us now arewhether we’re willing to help with fund raiserslike the PPR, like a Bike Week ride, both, or nei-ther. This important issue will be discussed at ourMarch 2nd monthly meeting.

Quick Release • March 2004 • Page 2

Looking up the roadWord from the President

I love the bicycle.It’s the ultimatemechanical con-struction thatcarries its hu-man load withunparalleled ef-ficiency. Honedover 150 yearsby thousands oftinkerers, engi-neers and vi-sionaries, thebicycle has moved closer to perfection oneidea at a time.

One day I watch lean racers whooshingby in a blur of speed. Next I see a little girlcircling on her pretty pink bike with white-wall tires, her helmet fanciful with decals.Then I watch workers pedaling home fromlower-income jobs on secondhand bikes.And young kids zipping around theirneighborhoods on BMX bikes. The peopleand uses for offspring of this magnificentinvention go on and on.

The bicycle is what it does. That’s whatit does for the rider—and what it does forour community. It gets you to work whileyou’re getting exercise. It propels youaround cars stuck in congestion, gettingyou to the store and out while they’re stilllooking for a place to park their SUVs. Itbonds you and your family on trips to thebeach and the ice cream parlor. It savesfuel, reduces pollution, saves the landfill,saves paving for car parking, providesmore room for trees and birds and ani-mals, it allows people to see and greet oneanother—and to grin because we share asecret way to live that others barely imag-ine.

The Bicycle Coalition has begun its four-teenth year of making things better for usall. Opportunities to share the fun of get-ting around by bike abound. I look forwardto helping us spring into heightened vis-ibility and greater effectiveness in the com-ing months. With our collective energy andimagination, we can forge a safer, morehuman community for us all. Let’s mountup and start pedaling toward the light.

Ralph Fertig, President.

SB starts Oak Park traffic management

The City of Santa Barbara started a second neighborhood process for traffic managementin its Oak Park area on January 27. The meeting was the first of five scheduled meetingsthat will end with a three day workshop with livable communities consultant Dan Burden.

The first neighborhood selected was the Saint Francis area where residents determinedwhat traffic measures they want to have installed. They include roundabouts, lane strip-ing, landscaping and curb extensions—efforts that help increase bicyclist safety.

The Oak Park neighborhood was selected because of the major changes that are comingfrom the rebuilding of Cottage Hospital. The plans call for closing off one block of CastilloStreet so the hospital can span two city blocks. This will have an effect on circulation. Ifyou live in the Oak Park area, consider attending the upcoming meetings; the next one ison March 18. Get more information from the City at 897-2509 or on their web site with anabsurdly long address:

www.ci.santa-barbara.ca.us/departments/public_works/transportation/alternative/ntmp.

CLOSING CASTILLO. This is the block of Castillo Street that Cottage Hospital proposes toclose for its new two-block complex of buildings.

Coalition may partner on kids SB bike projectWe may look back on February 2nd as animportant date in Bicycle Coalition projects.On that day, Lorriane Cruz Carpenter fromLooking Good Santa Barbara (LGSB)phoned the Bicycle Coalition’s Ralph Fertig.Their group was considering a project, per-haps for one summer, that involved reusingbicycles and getting them tokids who need them.

Although the main moti-vation of LGSB is in reduc-ing solid waste in landfills,the program immediatelyresembled the Santa Bar-bara Bike Project that wewere involved in the mid-1990s. The idea was con-sidered at our BicycleCoalition meeting on Febru-ary 3rd, and our new BoardMember Nancy Mulholland agreed to joinFertig at an upcoming LGSB committeemeeting to work on the project.

That February 18th meeting of six peopleresulted in a flurry of possibilities. BonnieSwitack, Assistant Principal at Santa Bar-bara Junior High, suggested testing a bikeprogram with a small student group at herschool. It could lead to week-long, afternoonsummer sessions for students who will beentering the Junior High in the fall. And

bikes and parts might be stored in theirlarge basement. Bike classes might evenbe held there.

Portland’s Community Cycling Centerprogram was described, and the groupconsidered hiring them as consultants tohelp set up a similar program here. The

use of local bike mechanics todirect bike repair and recon-struction from rescued bikeparts was considered.

Steven McIntosh from theCity’s Solid Waste Divisionwanted to make sure thatstudents learned the value ofrecycling things. The possibil-ity of a League of AmericanBicyclists’ licensed instructorto teach bike handling skillsalso was discussed. Involving

mechanics from UCSB’s Bike Shop, orthose from Santa Barbara Middle School’sprogram were also brought up.

Overall, the importance of helmets, bikesafety instruction and actual riding wasstressed. Just giving kids bikes won’t re-sult in many benefits, for the kids or forour community. More meetings are comingfor this venture. Carpenter is coordinatingthings; if you have ideas, contact her at386-2361 or [email protected].

Quick Release • March 2004 • Page 3

Nancy Mulholland restarts her careerby Ralph Fertig

Most people retirefrom a job and veg-etate, but that’s notwhat NancyMulholland has inmind. Nancy, a newBoard member of theBicycle Coalition,just left three de-cades of working inpublic health, spe-cializing in childrenwith disabilities, andis now plunging intoleading bicycle tours... perhaps.

Nancy was bornand raised in the SanFrancisco East Bay,where she enjoyed bicycling—at least untilhigh school when automobiles lured heraway. It wasn’t until she had children ofher own that she started biking again, andencouraging her two kids to bike too.

A wonderful tour that she recalls tookplace when her daughter graduated fromthe University of Colorado. The two ofthem created their own loaded tour fromBoulder west through the Rocky Moun-tains, then south to Flagstaff, Arizona,where they caught a train home.

Since then, Nancy’s most memorabletrip was in 1994 when she cycled acrossthe US along the northern tier. Well,mostly along the northern tier because sheentered Ontario at Sault Ste Marie fromnorthern Michigan and rode all the waythrough Ontario to Kingston where sheentered New York east of Lake Ontario.

Road cycling, she says, gives her achance to be outside, to de-stress, and a

time to think aboutimportant things.

What’s next?Starting on March11, Nancy will join aWomanTours rideacross the SouthernTier of the US. Shewill be a guide on al-ternate days to getan idea of what it’slike to lead a biketour. She won’t makeit all the way to St.Augustine, Floridabecause she will flyfrom New Orleans inlate April to join herpartner Mark Sappfor a three-day course

in Port Townsend, Washington. Thatcourse is in bike touring leadership put onby the Adventure Cycling Association.

After all that, Nancy feels that she willknow enough to decide whether leadingbike tours will be her new career or not.

Wherever she pedals, however, SantaBarbara will always be home where shefinds the bicycling just wonderful.

UNDER COVER. Nancy Mulholland finds that herrain poncho works to keep her bike saddle drywhen she’s away.

February Coalitionmeeting topics

Our February 3rd Bicycle Coalition meetingattracted 16 people who discussed manyissues facing us, including these:

• Matt Dobberteen described an update ofthe County’s Goleta TransportationImprovement Plan (now excluding the newCity of Goleta). Six people volunteered toform a committee with Matt to reviewbicycle project priorities.

• Drew Hunter volunteered to work with theGoleta Valley Cycling Club concerning theirproposal to partner with us on the PeoplePowered Ride this October.

• Erika Lindemann said that plans for BikeWeek are progressing, and an initialmeeting will be held in late February.

• Ralph Fertig described data that comparesbicycling and walking at Santa BarbaraCity intersections.

• Gary Wissman asked for an accountant tohelp him complete the federal andCalifornia tax forms. He will investigatepossibilities.

• Officers and Board members were elected.

• Ralph Fertig described Santa BarbaraEarth Day preparation. Eric Schwartzsuggested an expanded bike area. We willkeep our booth in the Courthouse sunkengarden, and bike checkups and parking onthe street.

• Ralph Fertig reported that Looking GoodSanta Barbara is proposing a bikerecycling program for kids. NancyMulholland will help define possibilities.

• Eric Schwartz reported that Velo CityCycles has been providing free “yellowbikes” on Santa Barbara’s Eastsideneighborhood.

• We will again be participating in theSustainability Project’s “Parade of GreenBuildings” this May 1st with a bike tour.

Local races attract hundreds of cyclistsSunny weather and back-to-back races combined to draw nearly 500 cyclists to each race:Santa Barbara Bicycle Club’s Good Ol’ Days Road Race in Los Olivos (left) and EchelonSanta Barbara’s Mothballs Criterium in Goleta (right). Echelon President Mark Purcell said“there was a lot of dual racing with Good Ol’ Days and Mothballs, good for each event.”

Active membersPlease thank and support the following Bi-cycle Coalition business members:

• Hazard’s Cyclesport, Santa Barbara• Lightning Cycle Dynamics, Lompoc• MarBorg Industries, Santa Barbara• Rincon Cycles, Carpinteria

We welcome new members NancyMulholland and Brian Larinan. And wecertainly thank those who renewed theirmemberships: Alan Bergquist, OwenPatmor and Doris Phinney.

Quick Release • March 2004 • Page 4

For Santa BarbaraCounty Bike Maps,info on ridesharingand van pools, justcall: 963-SAVE.

FREEBIKEMAP!

Upcoming bikemeetings & events

March 2, General Meeting. Meeting atnoon, first Tuesday of the month, CountyPublic Works conference room, 123 EastAnapamu Street, First Floor, Santa Barbara.Phone president Ralph Fertig, 962-1479 oremail him at [email protected].

March 9, Santa Barbara County TrailsCouncil Annual Meeting. This annualmeeting will have a special speaker, awardsand roundup of events during the pastyear. It's open to the public. Santa BarbaraPublic Library, Faulkner Gallery, 7:00 PM.Details from Vie Obern, 682-3175 or emailher at [email protected].

March 13, Solvang Century, sponsored bySCOR. The West's big seasonal kickoff ride.Choose 100 or 50-mile rides starting fromSolvang. Raffle, Bicycle Expo and barbecue.Info and online registration www.bikescor.comor phone SCOR 562-690-9693.

March 27, Choo Choo Century, sponsoredby the Goleta Valley Cycling Club. AnnualClub ride. Take Amtrak to San Luis Obispo,spend the night, then bike back to SantaBarbara. Includes room in Pismo Beach,bike sag to SLO, and Amtrak ticket. Regis-tration and Club membership required. De-tails from Lori Haney, 964-5822. Registra-tion form online at www.goletabike.org/Jan04_Breeze.pdf.

All the publicity fromthe County’s naminga section of the CoastRoute the “ObernTrail” has broughtadded—and well de-served—recognitionto Bicycle Coalitionmembers Georgeand Vie Obern. TheOberns were largelyresponsible decadesago for envisioningand having built thatsection of popularbikepath.

The February 13thissue of the ValleyVoice featured theOberns with a coverstory about theirachievements, in-cluding a large colorphoto of them. VoiceAssociate Editor Margo Kline wrote,“Thanks to Vie and George Obern, trailsare thriving throughout Goleta and SantaBarbara County, earning the lasting grati-tude of hikers, bikers and equestrians.”

On top of that came a Certificate of Rec-ognition to the Oberns from the CaliforniaAssembly. “Heartiest congratulations andcommendations are conveyed upon the oc-

casion of being rec-ognized for lifelongcontributions to thecreation of trails andpathways in SantaBarbara County.” Itis signed by Assem-blywoman HannahBeth Jackson.

Praise didn’t stopthere. US representa-tive Lois Capps en-tered a testimonialhonoring the Obernsinto the Congres-sional Record. Itnoted, “George andVie Obern’s work ledto the successful de-velopment of localtrail and pathwayprojects, includingthe Maria YgnaciaCreek Bikepath, the

Coastal Route Bikepath, the Juan Bautistade Anza National Historic Trail, and manyothers.”

Can there be more? How about a dedica-tion ceremony when the new Obern Trailsigns are unveiled. We’ll let you knowwhen a date is set. Until then, thank theOberns when you have the chance for theirdedicated efforts that we all enjoy.

Oberns receive more honors

A letter published in the Santa BarbaraNews-Press on February 4th by a foreignstudent complained about not being able toride an MTD bus with his bicycle. It wasbecause the rack was full and the driverwould not let him bring his bike inside.

This is not the first time that people withbikes have been stranded far from home.The MTD policy is no bikes inside, with thesuggested reason of liability insurance.However, other transit companies acrossthe US manage to accommodate bicyclistsbetter than the MTD. Here is a sample:• Denver RTD allows bikes inside when

racks are full and it’s dark or the next buswon’t come for more than an hour.

• Vermont GMTA’s Mad River Valley Busallows bikes inside (it has no outside bikeracks).

• Philadelphia’s SEPTA allows bikes insidetheir buses whether the racks are full ornot; some drivers prefer them inside.

• Pennsylvania’s Blair County AMTRANallows bikes inside if the driver thinks that

other passengers won’t be endangered.They encourage Altoona Police bike copsto board with their bikes for passengersecurity.

• San Luis Obispo Regional Transit hasthree-bike racks on both front and rear,accommodating six bikes total. The RTAjust got a $5,000 grant to buy more of thethree-bike racks to retrofit some of theirtwo-bike mounts.

• Sacramento’s SRT allows bikes insidewhen bike racks are full and it’s the lastbus of the day for that route.

The three-bike racks being used in SanLuis Obispo are a new offering from Sport-Works, the manufacturer of the MTD’s two-bike versions. They are currently installedon 400 vehicles, including the whole LongBeach Transit bus fleet. SportWorks’ LisaRobinson says the bikes go on and offthem nearly as fast as the two-bike ones.

So where does this leave us? There aretwo options—pursue 3-bike racks and checkthe MTD’s liability concerns.

How to get more bikes on MTD buses

Quick Release • March 2004 • Page 5

Quick Release accepts advertisements. Circula-tion is over 400 people. Ads are business cardsize, 3.5” wide x 2.0” high. Cost per ad is $18each, or 12 consecutive ads for $180. Details andan order form are available on PDF format onlineat: www.sbbike.org/QR/ad.pdf.

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UCSB students to voteon new bikepath

A five-day rush to get enough universitystudents to sign a petition resulted in anopportunity to vote on a missing-linkbikepath on UCSB campus. The proposedpath would be 450 feet long and wouldconnect Webb Hall and Engineering, justsouth of Broida Hall. “We did it!” exultedAssociated Students’ BIKE committee direc-tor Edward France after they turned in2661 signatures by the February 3rd dead-line. “This happened only with a hugeamount of help from a strong crew of bothus, bike shop people, and the EAB charg-ers.” (The EAB chargers are EnvironmentalAffairs Board people.)

What the University students will face inlate April is a vote to impose a $3 per stu-dent per quarter fee for three years to paythe estimated project cost of $400,000. Thecost is high because a building must bemoved to make room for the new connect-ing path, and new landscaping will beneeded. If the students pass the measure,design would be accelerated, and construc-tion could happen this summer with bor-rowed funding guaranteed by future fees.

LIVING DANGEROUSLY. In spite of a heavy fine ifcaught biking on the broad sidewalk, fewstudents walk their bicycles by Broida.

New Coalition BoardOur election of Bicycle Coalition officersand board members at our February 3rdmeeting resulted in some new people andsome returning ones. Ralph Fertig waselected President, a repeat of his serving inthat capacity in 1994-1997. Other officersare Chuck Anderson, Vice President; GaryWissman, Treasurer; and Drew Hunter,Secretary.

Board members are now the following:Dru van Hengel, Don Lubach, NancyMulholland, Mike Hecker, and JimMarshall. In addition, we now have a newcategory of professional advisors: WilsonHubbell and Erika Lindemann.

Our contact information is listed on page6, so feel free to contact any of us whenyou have ideas that we might benefit from.

Bicycling makes ussmarter

Just as we always thought—aerobic exer-cise like cycling not only keeps our brainsfrom deteriorating as we age, it can makeus sharper mentally. Recent research byArthur Kramer reported in the Journal ofGerontology confirmed that exercise im-proves cognition as determined not only bytests, but also by MRI imaging of the brainsof study volunteers aged 55 to 79.

A review of 18 earlier studies shows:• Women on estrogen replacement therapy

benefit more than women not on it.• Exercise programs involving both aerobic

exercise and strength training producedbetter results on cognitive abilities thaneither one alone.

• Older adults benefit more than youngeradults do.

• More than 30 minutes of exercise persession produce the greatest benefit.

So if you’re not smart enough now to real-ize how beneficial biking is, just go do itand you’ll eventually know how true it is.

Biking and walking inSanta Barbara

Within the City of Santa Barbara, we seelots of people bicycling and walking. It’swhat makes the place so livable for us all.But just how many people do either? Andhow does it vary from one part of town ortime of day to another?

The Bicycle Coalition’s Ralph Fertig hadan opportunity to obtain some answerswhile gathering data for the City’s upcom-ing Pedestrian Master Plan. He counted pe-destrians and bicyclists passing through 16intersections over 185 hours between July31 and September 12, 2003. The data showthe following:• There were 43,145 pedestrians and 8,293

bicyclists. That means for every fivepeople on foot, there’s one on a bicycle.

• The peak 2-hour period for bicyclists was3:15-5:15 PM.

• Week day biking and walking had verydifferent patterns than week ends, asshown in the graph.

• Intersections varied greatly, both in mix ofpedestrians and bicyclists, and in hourlydensities of either.

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Santa Barbara Bicycle CoalitionPresident, Ralph Fertig, 962-1479

[email protected] President, Chuck Anderson

893-4616, [email protected], Drew Hunter, 542-5112

[email protected], Gary Wissman, 964-4607

[email protected], Mike Hecker, 966-1807

[email protected], Don Lubach, 964-7798

[email protected], Jim Marshall, 962-3531

[email protected], Nancy Mulholland, 563-9073

[email protected], Dru van Hengel, 564-5544

[email protected], Wilson Hubbell, 568-3046

[email protected], Erika Lindemann, 961-8919

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Regional bicycle clubs & groups

Bicycle Touring Club of SolvangDan Henry, 688-3330

Cyclone Racing, Beth Wallace753-6673, [email protected]

Echelon Santa Barbara, Mark [email protected]

Goleta Valley Cycling ClubKathleen Boehm, [email protected]

Lompoc Valley Bicycle ClubRay Harris, 736-5454

SB Mountain Bike Trail VolunteersChuck Anderson, [email protected]

Santa Barbara Bicycle ClubMike Hecker, [email protected]

Santa Barbara BMXDale Bowers, [email protected]

Tailwinds Bicycle ClubCarl Beerup, [email protected]

UCSB Cycling ClubPhilip Chang, [email protected]

Road repair contactsCaltrans

Pat Mickelson, [email protected]

CarpinteriaRick Fulmer, 684-5405 [email protected]

GoletaSteve Wagner, [email protected]

LompocLarry Bean, [email protected]

Santa Barbara City897-2630

Santa Barbara CountyWilson Hubbell, [email protected]

Santa MariaRick Sweet, 925-0951 [email protected]

SolvangTom Rowe, [email protected]

UCSBDennis Whelan, [email protected]

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Discounts tomembers

Members of the Santa BarbaraBicycle Coalition are offered dis-counts at local bike shops. It’sanother reason to join our advo-cacy group. To get your dis-count, take your copy of QuickRelease to the shop & showthem your address label thatsays “MEMBER” on it. Or cutout the label box and take it.Discount details are posted onour web site at www.sbbike.org/SBBC/who.html. Please patronizethe following shops:

Bicycle Bob’s250 Storke Road #A, Goleta15 Hitchcock Way, Santa Barbara

Bicycle Connection223 W. Ocean Avenue, Lompoc

Big Gear Bike Gear324 State Street #A, Santa Barbara

Hazard’s Cyclesport735 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara

Mad Mike's Bikes1110 E. Clark Avenue #G, Santa Maria

Open Air Bicycles224 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara

Pedal Power Bicycles1740 Broadway, Santa Maria

VeloPro Cyclery633 State Street, Santa Barbara5887 Hollister Avenue, Goleta