About CUNY Bikes!

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Wednesday, May 14th is Bike-to-School Day at Hunter College! See below for details on the event:
Bike-to-School Day, Hunter College, 2008
5/8/08: Bike-to-School Day is happening at the Graduate Center, too!
May is Bike Month
Celebrate Bike-to-School Day at Cuny! Wednesday May 14, 2008. Ride to School! Ride with a friend!
Sponsored by the Hunter Sustainability Coalition. For more information, go to the Cuny Bikes! website at http://cunysustainablecities.org/wiki/index.php/CUNY_Bikes%21 or email equirk@gc.cuny.edu
5/2/08: Page on NYC Bicycle Parking Survey added to this wiki
A page has been added to this wiki detailing the work that Jason Nu and Wallace Murray did in conjunction with their NYC Bicycle Parking Survey. Check it out: NYC Bicycle Parking Survey
Tour de Queens
CUNY Hunter grad student Helen Ho, along with CUNY Hunter alum Dan Ross and members of Transportation Alternatives, have organized the first ever Tour de Queens. The Tour de Queens website is now live! Please hurry if you are interested in registering for our first annual event. Since this is our first event, we are keeping it small and limiting our ride to the first 500 people that register to ride! Go to tourdequeens.org.
Please also help and get the word out to your friends, family, colleagues and other networks in Queens as well.
You may be wondering, what is the Tour de Queens and where does it go? The Tour de Queens is a sister of other NYC borough based rides, the Tour de Bronx and Tour de Brooklyn. This is the Tour de Queens' inaugural ride and we'd like you to be part of it! The tour starts and ends at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and will take a 20-mile scenic loop through central and western Queens. Our event will held on Sunday, June 8th. Registration starts at 8am and the ride begins at 9am.
Do I have to register? Yes! Registration is free and required. Go to tourdequeens.org. If you're interested in riding, please print out the registration form, fill it out, and mail or fax it to Transportation Alternatives (info at the bottom of the form).
Wait! I want to volunteer for Tour de Queens! That's great. We'd love to have you as a volunteer. There are many volunteer positions available for June 8th including being a riding marshal, a standing marshal, and volunteering at a rest stop. Please fill out the Volunteer form on tourdequeens.org. Thanks again for spreading the word and look for the Transportation Alternatives Queens Committee tabling with Tour de Queens registrations at special events near you in Queens!

MEETING SUMMARY:

Fourteen people attended the first CUNY Bikes! meeting on Thursday, April 10th, 2008. At least eight others wrote in to say they'd like to be involved, too. Thanks to CISC for hosting us in their space, and to the Hunter Urban Sustainability Collective (HUSC) for providing refreshments.
Introductions See the Bike People page to find out who's involved in CUNY Bikes! and what they are working on. There's a lot of great research and advocacy happening right now. Feel free to add yourself to that page! Include links, photos, whatever you want.
Wiki Page We discussed whether to communicate via listserve or wiki and decided to use this wiki page as our primary space for collaboration. Everyone is invited to edit this page as they see fit, and to create and link to new pages. That's what makes wikis so cool.
Email Communications An email address has been set up <cunybikes[at]gmail.com> to serve as a "forwarding list" so that you can write to that single email account and have your message forwarded to everyone else involved in this group. The email address should probably just be used for time-sensitive announcements (e.g. "meeting/event tomorrow!"...bike-related only, please) or reminders to visit this wiki page (e.g. "Hey everyone, the CUNY Bikes! page has been updated with my latest research data - check it out"). If you'd like your email address to be on this "forward list" just send a short intro about yourself/your work/your campus to: cunybikes@gmail.com and you'll be added.
Events Being Planned
Bike to School Day is scheduled at Hunter College's 68th Street campus for Wednesday, May 14th, which is the last day of classes. We hope other CUNY schools will do the same. A page will be created for the planning/promotion of this event. UPDATES: A table on the 3rd Floor of Hunter West has been reserved so we can show films and do outreach. We need to decide what to provide at the table, which films to show...

• FILM IDEAS??? list them here

• OUTREACH IDEAS??? list them here

• T-SHIRT DESIGN IDEAS??? list them here

The 3rd Annual NYC Greenway Summit will be hosted by Hunter College on Tuesday, May 27th, 4-8 p.m. We discussed several possibilities for including CUNY Bikes! in this city-wide event: encourage people to ride to Hunter and provide valet bike parking, include a discussion or workshop related to bike transportation to/from CUNY schools, etc. Other Tasks @ Hunter: Gather signatures from students, staff, and faculty to petition the Administration to install indoor (or more outdoor) bicycle parking. For example, "X many students, staff, and faculty would bike to campus if there were more safe bike racks." We plan to write a formal request to the Administration/Master Plan Committee asking for more bike racks, and we want to get faculty and any relevant Sustainability Task Force sub-committees to sign onto it. @ Hunter: Write formal request to DOT for more outdoor bicycle parking along Lexington Ave and 67-69th Streets.