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Cincy Bike Share, now Red Bike, getting close
Cincy Bike Share, now officially Red Bike, is getting thisclose to
operation. As of today, six of the bike racks are in place. They are at Fountain Square, the Freedom Center, City Hall, Sawyer Point, Great American Ball Park and the Aronoff Center. But the bikes are not in place. Not yet. Eventually 35 stations holding 260 bikes will dot Downtown, Over-the-Rhine and Uptown. So what is Red Bike exactly? Well, it's a bike share program. It's like a taxi for people looking for short trips around town. Or a bus. A user will be able to take a bike from one spot and go to another. Imagine you are in your office downtown, and you need to get to a lunch in Over-the-Rhine. You can ride a bike. Or if you have an early dinner and want to get down to a Reds game. You can ride a bike. Just take a bike from one rack, and park it at another. The racks will be placed strategically to promote usage. Tlike a good idea to me. And people who study this stuff. In 2012, Cincinnati's Department of Transportation and Engineering conducted a feasibility study that pointed to the urban core because of its population density, the mixture of housing and businesses and a supportive environment. "The Downtown/OTR area makes for a logical first deployment of bike sharing in Cincinnati. ... Redevelopment in these areas has also shown a commitment to healthy and active lifestyles." The study also liked Downtown's slow traffic, generally flat topography and well-connected streets.and pay attention, because as a person who rides Downtown pretty frequently, I can tell you cars and their drivers can do surprising things. And helmets will not be part of the rental. Red Bike has not determined the cost structure yet for day-fees for an annual membership, Barron said. That will be determined soon, as the program should be up and riding sometime in September. This spring, Mayor John Cranley proposed $1.1 million for the program. The City Council approved the money and things got moving quickly. Up next for the rack locations are Horseshoe Casino, the Duke Energy Center and eventually near the University of Cincinnati and the hospital complex. "We've been working hard over the last few years to add bike lanes throughout the city, which tends to encourage new riders and make people feel safer riding in the street," said Mel McVay, a Senior City Planner with the City of Cincinnati Department of Transportation & Engineering. "Bike share is another important piece of that puzzle. The convenience of a bike share system opens up bicycling as an option for people who maybe would like to be using a bike to get around, but haven't yet taken that first step." http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news...-otr/14061133/ "It's a system of transportation. It's not bike rental," said Jason Barron, executive director of Red Bike told the paper when first announcing the program. "It will fit in with taxis and the bus and the streetcar." And riding in the city is fun. Just follow the rules in place for cars he idea is that it will be fast and easy and save the environment and you will not need to find a parking place. Each one of those sounds --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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Cincinnati ranks in the top 50 for bike friendly cities
Cincinnati ranks in the top 50 for bike friendly cities
CINCINNATI -- A nation publication geared toward cyclists took note of Cincinnati's bike friendly moves in recent years. Cincinnati was ranked 35th out of 50 cities for "best bike city" in the United States by Bicycling Magazine. “There are many unspectacular but important things a city can do to gain our consideration for this list," the magazine article states. "Maybe you've heard of them, or maybe—given the pace of change these days—you've already begun to enjoy them - segregated bike lanes, municipal bike racks and bike boulevards, to name a few. If you have those things in your town, cyclists probably have the ear of the local government—another key factor. To make our Top 50, a city must also support a vibrant and diverse bike culture. It must have smart, savvy bike shops.” For the Queen City, the listing notes the promotion and adoption of the 2010 bicycle program, the first Ohio city to install protected bike paths, and then September's roll out of the state's second bike sharing program with Cincy Red Bike. http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/...riendly-cities --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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Cincy Bike Share, now Red Bike, getting close
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:18:10 PM UTC+1, Garrison Hilliard wrote:
Cincy Bike Share, now officially Red Bike, is getting thisclose to No doubt a worthwhile scheme. Thanks for the report, Garrison. Including the amusing bits: In 2012, Cincinnati's Department of Transportation and Engineering conducted a feasibility study that pointed to the urban core because of its population density, the mixture of housing and businesses and a supportive environment. "The Downtown/OTR area makes for a logical first deployment of bike sharing in Cincinnati. ... Redevelopment in these areas has also shown a commitment to healthy and active lifestyles." Holy ****! And then critics knock sociologists for spending vast sums on research to discover that people know the people they know. Those critics would have an apoplectic fit if they stumbled across the bike movement's "research" (and I'm not even talking about the lies of Krygowski and his Krowd of Klowns or, if you're being kind, their persistent incompetence with the statistics, and their deliberate mangling of the results). You don't need research to tell you a redeveloped, mixed use (business and residential), yuppified downtown is the ideal high-density, pretentious-"lifestyle" milieu (notice the pretentious French word when the plain English "environment" is equally good and more effectively evokes of the dynamic). You just need to go walkabout, talk to a few people, put your mind in gear, consider motivation and consequence, and voila, you can make up the results of the "research" out of your head, and not be off more than a couple percentage points, and give away nothing in your levels of confidence. Still, they arrived at the right decision, and a sheaf of "research" in hand no doubt helped to persuade semi-numerate pols to do the right thing. Thanks for the giggle. |
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