Bike Month 2008 starts April 15^th with a proclamation at City Hall!

Get your bike ready for bike events nearly every day until our finale event with Prescott’s Mayor on May 16^th.

If you’d like to help make this Bike Month a success, please contact our Bike Month committee at 708-0911 or email us at pat@prescottbikeped.org

Bike Month - Calendar of Events:
click HERE for Calendar page

A summary of laws respective to bicycling in Arizona
- Click HERE for details and facts.
 

The P.A.T. Newsletter THE PROGRESS is mailed to the members of P.A.T.  
It is also available at the P.A.T. office, stop by to pick up a current edition.
Click HERE or at "Newsletter" button at left for the current copy.
Don't forget to fill out the survey and send it in. Your input is wanted!

The 2007 Bike Month Festivities
Click on Thumbnail to view enlarged picture below.

 The New:

The City of Prescott

Bicycle Advisory Committee

Bicycling & Hiking Opportunities Map

Available at these Generous Sponsors:

Bike shops (Ironclad, Bikesmith, High Gear, Encore Performance), the Outdoor Gear shops (Granite Mountain Outfitters, The Hike Shack, Swift Feet), and at P. Coffee Roasters coffee shop, Pangea Bakery, Dinner Bell Cafe and at the Prescott Alternative Transportation office.

Great Information!

"Advantages of Bike Lanes" (even for non bike riders!)

"Ten Greatest Myths About Bicycling in Prescott"

"Benefits of Bike Lanes - Fact Sheet"

click to view the .pdf documents, if you need the viewer click here Adobe

       Safe Routes to Schools  - Where are we?

Our 5 year plan for the Tri-City Area - Click Here

 

We continue to be committed to giving students of all ages walking and biking options for getting to school.   But our recent efforts to win foundation funding have come up empty.   

We are not giving up.   It is too important.  We can at least keep messages and encouragement flowing, to reach those students and their parents whose safe options already exist.  If they but look for them.

 

We got a good start a couple of years ago.   Seed money came from the Margaret T. Morris Foundation.   We lined up several schools around the challenge of finding safe routes. Initial work was done, and some children walked, but we need to keep it going.

 

We will make an effort to reach parents, through the media and through flyers at the schools, to consider walking their children to school.  The benefits are many.  Among them

 

- Fighting obesity in our children

- Cleaning up traffic, and our air (especially in the vicinity of schools)

- Inculcating independence and self-reliance in our kids

- Parental independence too!

 

Stay tuned to us on this subject, as we ourselves remain tuned in.

For more information on Safe Routes to Schools, check out a couple of excellent links on our links page

Project updates:

1. Greenways:  There has been some delay, as everyone knows.   Main culprits: some absentee land owners (getting legal documents signed, allowing the easements), and a slow survey process around the NAPA auto supply store (a land swap involved).   But we are getting real close to work on the next mile.  Original completion date was October this year, but that will slip by about a year, especially considering environmental and archeological approvals.  Goal: extension of the multiuse trail from West Granite Creek Park south one mile to the Mile High Middle School.  Also some work west along Miller Creek.

2. Peavine Trail: There are some plans afoot to present information on Rails to Trails to the Town Council of Chino Valley.   This is a positive development, since development of the northern section of the Trail will depend on Chino, and the private land developments already in planning which will abut the Trail.

3. 89-69 interchange:  A recent meeting with the ADOT design consultants was very positive.   The design which was presented included a meandering multi-use trail to the NW of the junction, linking the VA Hospital and other southbound 89 bicycle/ped traffic with the Yavapai College campus and the rest of Prescott.   In addition, a trail on the other side of 89 provides a turn not available to motorists: a left turn from southbound 89 onto eastbound 69.

After a discussion, an extension of the planned bike path on the south side of 69 all the way to Frontier Village was suggested, and will likely become part of the design.    Another improvement discussed was a better separation of the trail from traffic on the inner section of the 69-89 curve (up slope from the cemetery).  These alterations, on top of a nice initial design, will make human-powered negotiation of the critical 89-69 link possible and even enjoyable.   

Our bicycle-pedestrian friendly community will soon be friendlier.  

P.A.T. allied group:

Click here for their mission statement