[OldNorth] Davis Bike History Presentation -try #2

[Donald A. Martinich]

Hi folks-

I got this on the Davis Bike Club list.  I thought some of you may be 
interested in this presentation.

Dutch



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>Hi All,
>
>I'm doing the presentation on the 26th--I've been in town for 3 
>years, I introduced myself briefly at the January DBC meeting.  I'm 
>not much of a road biker these days, just around town, so I don't 
>frequent DBC meetings very often. 
>
>A little on the research, Susan Handy at the Institute for 
>Transportation Studies (ITS) obtained funding to have a student do a 
>history of bicycle policy in Davis, and I've been doing the research 
>off and on for two years now.  It's been a lot of fun, I've been 
>interviewing folks, reading Enterprise and Aggie archives, looking 
>through old planning and policy documents, etc.  I presented it to 
>ITS in December, and had a lot of requests for a second 
>presentation, so we arranged for a night at the Varsity.  You can 
>download a flier for the event at 
>http://mae.ucdavis.edu/~biosport/jkm/VarsityEvent.jpg  Everyone is 
>invited, I hope many of you can come. 
>
>I and others have been speaking on behalf of bicyclists, better bike 
>lanes, racks, etc. with on the TPAC committee on campus, but it 
>seems that there is no coordinated effort to do this in the city. 
>From my perspective, it's about visioning the future you want, and 
>working within the system to create it.  When people were doing this 
>in Davis, the conditions for bicycling improved.  Now, with lots 
>more cars and people than we had in the 1980s, we need better 
>minimum standards and maintenance of bike facilities, revitalized 
>education programs, etc to offset density.  I'm hoping that a 
>byproduct on this historical presentation will be to remind people 
>that back in the day it was a lot of work to make Davis a great 
>place for bikes, and suggest that now it may now again require work 
>to ensure it stays this way. 
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>Comments and feedback welcome,
>
>Ted Buehler
>tjbuehler at ucdavis.edu
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