a specific time. This creates community support for permanent greening. (See above cartoon). Multi-Modal Transit Facilities Whereas it is the norm in Holland, Long Beach, California's combined railway and bus station may be the first to offer bike rentals along with 130 enclosed guarded bike parking spaces. This innovative full-service bike facility called The Bikestation employs two people and will extend the area that transit users can reach. ISTEA and a matching grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority are making the project possible. The League of American Bicyclist's President Allen Greenberg in cooperation with other bicycle, environmental and transit groups, has offered assistance to Amtrak for finding ISTEA (government) funds to make bicycle parkina • b Improvements at Amtrak stations and to put hardware on railcars for carrying fully-assembled bicycles. You may contact the League of American Bicyclists at 190 West Ostend Street, Suite 120, Baltimore, MD 21230. Conferences 1996 Transportation Enhancements Conference: Better Transportation, Better Communities occurs at the Hotel Washington in Washington, DC from June 9-11, 1996. Sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration. The price is $150. Contact Shannon Buono (RTC) at (202) 797-5400. Pr.oBike/ ProWalk 1996 will be held September 3-6, 1996 in Portland, Maine. Around five hundred bicycle advocates will gather at this conference taking place at The Holiday Inn by scenic Casco Bay. There will be over 70 workshop sessions to pick from. The hotel location also has easy pedestrian and bicycle access to the Old Port Historic District. To get registered, contact Bruce Burgess at (802) 388-2453 or send your name/address to Pro Bike/Pro Walk c/o BFA, 1506 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. ' (202) 463-6622. Fax (202) 463-6625. Email Above, proposed traffic calming measures can be tested out in advance. For example, Auto-Free Munich uses portable trees to get community support for permanent ones. BIKEFED@AOL.com. The conference price is $350 before July 31st, $395 after. The hotel room.is $87 per room. VeloAustralis: "Bicycles: A Global Solution to Local Problems" will be held October 28- November 1, 1996 outside of the port city of Perth, at Fremantle, Australia. Participants will get to see the car-free island resort called Rottnest Island which has a bicycle-based transport system; . veloways along railway lines; the new town of Joondalup which was specifically planned and built around public transport and bicycle facilities; and Perth's free downtown public transit. To get registration information, contact Promaco Conventions Ltd., PO Box 890, Canning Bridge, Western Australia 6153. Phone +61 9316 8311. Fax 9316 1453. Email promaco@cleo.murdoch.edu.au. For those who like to plan way ahead the 1997 International Velo City will be held in Barcelona, Spain. The second annual, Cycles: An Option for the 21st Century will be held in Cuba from December 2-6, 1996. Participants will see a country transformed into a bicycling nation in just the few years since the fall of the Soviet Union. For registration info, contact Humberto Valdes Rios Institution de Investigactiones del Transport, Apartado ' 17029, Habana 17-11700, Cuba. E-mail bicicuba@ tinored.cu. Proceeding of Previous Velo-City Conferences The C,ivilised City - Responses to New Transport Priorities is a compendium from the Velo-City Conference in Nottingham, England in September 1993. Filled with 200 inspiring illustrations, this 550 page book is a handy reference for bike improvements around the world. Available at a price of £65 from Sue Jacques, Nottinghamshire County Council, Fax 01144-1159-774631. RAIN Summer 1996 Volume XV, Number 1 Page 25
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