TnEHun For Sustainable Transportation By Micah Posner In March of 1995, the bicycle advocates in Santa Cruz, California, put aside for a few minutes their specific organizations and arguments, pooled their resources and started leasing a building downtown which was dubbed the Hub (no acronym, please) for Sustainable Transportation. Within a few weeks, we had our furniture donated and moved in (all by bicycle of course). Since then we have used our Hubhouse for generating plans and income, as a warehouse for bicycle deliveries, a space to sell trailers, fix bikes, and teach people how to fix bikes, endless meetings (ranging from entirely practical to entirely revolutionary in nature), a place for free food, and quite a few large parties. The organizations that spoke the Hub are: the Santa Cruz County Cycling Club (recreational riding and community projects), Bike to Work Week, People Power (see article), Pedaler's Express (the human-powered delivery coop), and Growing Cycles (youth outreach and education through rides and bike mechanics). Come visit us at 2048 N. Pacific, in downtown Santa Cruz, California or call People Power! at (408) 425-0665 for more information. Top left and right, March 3, 1995, a group of volunteers used bike trailers to.haul file cabinets, computers, desks, bookcases and everything else to the new Hubhouse. Left bottom, the inside of the bustling bike advocacy center. Right bottom, to leave the bike center you of course must pass through a "bike door". Bikes have limitless uses. Page 12 RAIN Summer 1996 Volume XV, Number 1
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