lt Photo right, Second Nature Bicycles in Eugene (Oregon) delivers some of their bikes to their store with this large, bike trailer: City, PO Box 846, Iowa City, Iowa 52244, (319) 338-0655. Portland's alternative modes promotion efforts are in full swing with a sidewalk cafes/ vending carts program and the neighborhood block party program (which encourages residents to close their local street to vehicular traffic for a day). Partly from *footnote: the newsletter of the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition, PO Box 2252, Portland, Oregon 97208. The Willamette Pedestrian Coalition's newsletter educates about the importance of sidewalks, as well as other pedestrian facilities. According to WPC, "having sidewalks on both sides of the street can reduce pedestrian accidents by 50%." You can find out more about the future promotion level of walking, biking and transit in Portland's Region 2040 plan by viewing the informational video "It's Your-Turn" available at library branches, at Blockbuster Video Stores or by calling Metro at (503) 797-1888 and requesting a copy. Bike Police Update: Most airports are .in dire need of pollution abatement programs. Rather than spend a fortune on the new, expensive, computer monitoring systems that prevent hotel vans from circulating multiple times around the airport terminal looking for passengers, one savvy airport is saving money and reducing their pollution-levels using low-tech, very dependable human bicycling monitors. Albany, New York's airport is using airpo_rt bicycle police to control illegal parking, traffic congestion, and perform other tasks for which bicycles are especially ~ell-suited. Tricycles also have a cost-effective place in airports. Worksman's Cycles makes heavy-duty utility tricycles that carry really large loads. These are used in shipyards, airports and delivery services around the world. When compared to internal combustion vehicles, the utility trikes reduce indoor pollution levels and decrease repair and operation costs. To get a catalog of these bikes, write to Worksman's Cycles, 94-15 100 St., Ozone Park, N.Y. 11416 or call (718) 322-2000, fax (718) 529-4803. Albany's airport bicycle police are part of the growing number of effective cops-on-bikes patrols. New York City is also improving efficiency with 500 planned mountain bike police this year. There are 52 bike cops in Washington, DC and even some in car-choked San Jose, California. Seattle has 5% of its police force on bikes. Also, note the new bike cop TV show on TBS - "Pacific Blue." Partial source: Pro-Bike News. Bicycle Ambulances are Lifesavers Denver uses mountain bike paramedics for large, crowded events. In the poorer and less accessible parts of the world, human-powered ambulances are ~aving lives in rural areas. Mobility Resources' tough bicycles and bicycle ambulance trailers use airless tires to eliminate flat tires. The trailers are also used in East Africa, Leogane, Haiti and Ethiopia near the Somalian border. Mobility's phone (505) 474-0550. Active Kids A program called Bike Traffic trains inner-city youths to become bike mechanics and is part of the bicycling education and promotion work of the Bicycle Transportation Center. You can rent bikes, get a good deal on bike repairs at Bike Traffic, or find out about the best bike routes at 1418 Turk Street and at the bulkhead of Pier 38 at South Beach, San Francisco. For further information contact the Bicycle Transportation Center, 2 Henry Adams St, M-95, San Francisco, California 94103, Phone (415) 776-2330. No Free School Parking Providing free parking for high school students at schools sends the message that driving, instead of public transit, is the cool way to get to school. Well not anymore in Toronto, Canada. The Toronto Board of Education now requires $20/ month from students and employees who wish to park their cars at school. For more info, contact: Environmentalists· Plan Toronto, (416) 397-3073. RAIN Summer 1996 Volume XV, Number 1 Page 23
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