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Bike Month 2008 starts April 15th
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 16th.
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
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A summary of laws respective to bicycling in
Arizona
- Click HERE for details
and facts.
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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!
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The 2007 Bike Month
Festivities
Click on Thumbnail to view enlarged picture below.
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Mayor Simmons speaks to the crowd of more than 100 bicyclists before
taking off on the 6th annual Ride to Work with the Mayor on May 18
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Students gathered at Taylor Hicks Elementary on May 5 (despite weather
that included rain, wind, hail and even snow!) watch Officer Crabtree
demonstrate the obstacle course before trying it themselves.
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PAT Board members Tom Pettit and Johanna Hawley pose outside Cupper's
Coffeehouse at a bike-in event on May 4 modeling this season's hottest
fashion trend: the new PAT t-shirt! (contact us if you, too, want to
proudly declare that 'we are traffic'!)
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A scene at the finish line of the Whiskey Off-Road endurance ride in
downtown Prescott on May 19. Over 600 riders participated this year.
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- 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.
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 Safe
Routes to Schools - Where are we?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- - 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!
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- 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
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PAT Newsletter :
Anyone wanting to submit an article, letter, etc., please contact the
PAT office. The phone number is: 708-0911.
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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.
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P.A.T. allied group:
Click here for their mission
statement
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Alternatives to Forest Service Trails and
Roads! Here is a link
to an "alternative" Trail Map that will give you ideas for bicycling in
our central Yavapai community: Trail Map Many
Thanks to Derek Brownlee!
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Join the PAT List serve for e-mail updates and action alerts!
Click
here to learn more about the list serve.
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Office
information
PAT's office is
located at 710A White Spar Road (right next to Iron Clad Bicycles).
The office is open 9:00 - 1:00 Mon.- Fri. It's good to call
first, but then, drop in and say hi, check out posted events happening
around town, or register to volunteer! (928) 708-0911 |
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Prescott's Bike Month was GREAT!
Thanks to all who helped
PAT
News and Current Events
HELP US
TURN SIXTH STREET
LOSS INTO WIN
<>On April 22, 2008, Prescott
City Council members Bell, Lamerson, Roecker and Suttles, designed
their own re-striping of Sixth Street – two mammoth wide traffic lanes
and
a mammoth wide center turn lane without bike lanes. Ignoring warnings
that
these wide lanes will encourage speeding and unsafe passing as well as
a
warning from a City engineer that a wider-than-normal center turn lane
could
cause passing within the center lane, these four Council members chose
this
hazardous design for the sole reason that they
did not want to encourage bicycling on Sixth Street!
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<>This is not over! We at
Prescott Alternative Transportation (PAT) are
already discussing next steps. Never before have we had so many well
informed,
expert voices for any of our projects. Thanks so much to all of you who
wrote
letters and presented! Though we lost this battle, the issue of bicycle
access
was headline news for weeks, we are all now very familiar with those
who oppose
bicycling, and many more supporters have joined our ranks because of
it.
Let’s keep this momentum going forward.
HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP:
<>*Join a
PAT committee (contact
us at: 928-708-0911 or pat@prescottbikeped.org):
-Action Committee – help us strategize for projects like Sixth Street
and Grove Ave
-Outreach Committee – help us get the word out for bicycling and walking
-Bike Month Committee – help make 2009 even better
Prescott Alternative Transportation is a
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working for a bicycle and pedestrian
friendly central Yavapai
community. 3-03
P.O. Box 2122, Prescott, AZ
86302 (928)708-0911 pat@prescottbikeped.org
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