Free Emergency Rides For Bicycling Commuters Students and employees of the University of California at Santa Barbara can join a bicycle commuter program that has the benefit of free emergency rides home on weekdays and up to six days of free car parking per academic quarter. For more information, contact Melinda Norris, UCSB Parking Services, (805) 893-2917, or e-mail at po03norr@ ucsbvm.ucsb.edu. A Bike Hotel Near the Danube River Bike Path that runs between Regensburg (Bavaria) and Vienn~, there is a bicycle hotel called Rote[ Inn with small cabin-style rooms. Looking Back at Bicycle History The increase in popularity of bicycling provided freedom to many Victorian women, freedom to enjoy rigorous exercise Page 24 RAIN Summer 1996 Volume XV, Number 1 and freedom from chaperons. The need for unencumbered mov((ment while bicycling encouraged the development of more comfortable women's clothing, as well. The Bicycling History Museum in Boise, Idaho offers us a glimpse into the fascinating history of cycling from the mid-19th century to modern times. Visit this varied collection at 6th & Main, Old Boise, Idaho. Phone (208) 345-5335. The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in Crested Butte, Colorado has an average of 4,000 visitors per month during the summer season. Don't miss learning about the wild and crazy pioneers of the practical mountain bike of today. Call the Bike Hall at (303) 349-7382 or write them at PO Box 845, Crested Butte, Colorado 81224. Traffic-Calming With Neighborhood Support Speed restrictions for cars reduce the number of accidents and encourage walking, biking, and public transit use. An inexpensive, easy way to experiment with traffic-calming is to let residents see the proposed changes on the actual streets using fake bollards, planters, speed bumps, astroturf, plastic tape (for marking parking spaces), tree cutouts and benches. This was done in Switzerland, funded by a cycling club. The modular set of fake street amenities included instructions on how to organize a neighborhood meeting around the traffic calming proposal. Auto Free Munich 2000 is using a similar strategy by getting permission to put portable trees in parking spaces for
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