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How to reach us Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition PO Box 92047 Santa Barbara CA 93190-2047 phone 962-1479 email info@sbbike.org web www.sbbike.org

July 6th meeting Join us on Tuesday, July 6th for our monthly meeting. Let’s improve bicycling in 2004: Rusty's Pizza 232 W. Carrillo Street Santa Barbara, California No-host dinner 6:00 PM Meeting at 7:00 PM

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July 2004

Bikeway projects are funded After voters in Santa Barbara County approved the 20-year Measure D in 1989, a half-cent sales tax has been collected for transportation projects.

Thirty percent of the money collected goes to large highway projects, and seventy percent is distributed to the County and cities in our county.

On June 17, the Association of Governments approved a 5-year program of bikeway and other transportation projects worth $104 million for local County and city projects.

Three of the eight cities plan to use money for bicycle projects: • Carpinteria. $45,000 to repair any root heave and pot holes on bikepaths, then slurry coat and re-stripe. Also replace light fixtures on the Franklin Creek bikepath to Carpinteria High School.

• Lompoc. $86,000 for the Riverbend Park Bikeway that will extend from Ocean Ave to Riverbend Park along the Santa Ynez River. It is expected to start in the fall of 2005.

• Lompoc. $271,000 for the Allan Hancock Bikeway project will connect the Santa Ynez River Bridge Bikepath to Allan Hancock College.

It’s also expected to start in the fall of 2005.

• Santa Barbara. The city will use $8 million for pedestrian and bicyclist improvements, but the split and projects have not been determined.

BRIGHT IDEA. Carpinteria will use Measure D funds for new lights along the Franklin Creek Bikepath that leads to Carpinteria High School.

Measure D will expire in 2009, and just how a replacement is crafted remains to be seen. We note that many other counties in California have dedicated portions of their transportation taxes set aside for the needs of their pedestrian, bicyclist, and transit riders. Now is the time to look into the future and fund the kind of sustainable transportation infrastructure that we—and upcoming generations—wish to live with.

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Join the Coalition You can help improve bicycling safety and conditions in Santa Barbara County by joining others in our own regional Bicycle Coalition advocacy group. Together we will continue to make a real difference. See page 6 for details.

For sale: video & flag We’re pleased to offer our own video “Decide to Ride.” It’s about a young woman who learns to bike commute to work. It’s only $18 (tax and US shipping included) from us, address above.

Plus, we’re selling Bike Week flags, 4’x6’ heavy nylon, terra cotta and white. They’re $33 plus tax. Look at this PDF file: www.sbbike.org/art-home/ flag.pdf

Coalition organizes “BikeEd” program At the Bicycle Coalition’s board meeting on June 21st, Nancy Mulholland and Erika Lindemann presented a proposal for us to serve as the main coordinating organization for bicyclist education within Santa Barbara County. A motion to accept that role was unanimously approved.

The program would organize local bicycling instructors who are licensed by the League of American Bicyclists; they are called “League Cycling Instructors,” or LCIs. There are about 15 of them in our county. As envisioned, a BikeEd Coordinator would be the brokering liaison between the LCIs and sponsoring entities for the BikeEd courses.

Our first job is to find a BikeEd Coordinator.

That person need not be an LCI, but should have an understanding of bicyclist safety. If you want to know more about that initial position, contact either Mulholland at 563-9073 or Lindemann at 961-8919.

We expect that it will eventually become paid.

It is anticipated that classes for children and adults will be offered each month. Further, there’s a possibility of coordinating our BikeEd program with statewide efforts of the California Bicycle Coalition.

BIKE EDUCATION. Nancy Mulholland at left teaches But first, we have to develop a basic structure that kids at Washington School how to bike in a straight will become an ongoing enterprise by 2005. line while looking back to check for cars.

Carpinteria opens bluff bikepath

NEW TRAIL. Reached from Dump Road, or the State Beach, the bikepath is one more segment.

It’s only 1000 feet long, and dead ends in coastal brush, but the new bikepath in Carpinteria represents one more section of an envisioned 3-mile coastal trail.

Eventually, the trail will connect the Salt Marsh, Carpinteria State Beach, Carpinteria Bluffs recreation area, and hopefully, Rincon Beach. The new section, dedicated on April 26, was funded by Chevron and Venoco as part of an oil pipeline installation agreement from the 1980s.

Such projects are neither easy nor fast nor cheap, but if we keep pressing for them section by section, we will eventually have a splendid trail for all users.

Bikelane safety change

Safer cycling planned for Highway 150 A revived Caltrans project to widen Highway 150 along Rincon Creek, northeast of Carpinteria, will add four-foot shoulders that will increase bicyclists’ safety. Currently, the narrow road, twisting along the scenic creek, is a beautiful ride, but dangerous for people on bikes because of the fast traffic, two narrow bridges, an awkward intersection with Highway 192, and no shoulders.

The earlier 1993 project was stopped a decade ago by the Coastal Commission because of harm to the creek habitat. The new project, approved by Santa Barbara County’s zoning administrator on June 21, is shorter (0.7 mile instead of the 1.9 miles), removes fewer trees, and effects less land. It still has to go to Ventura County for approval, and the Sierra Club has announced that it will appeal the June 21 decision to our county Board of Supervisors.

Caltrans nevertheless believes that the

NARROW BRIDGE. A cyclist crosses one of two narrow bridges proposed for replacement on Highway 150.

project will gain needed approval and start in summer 2006. Due to replacement of the two bridges, the road will be closed for perhaps a year. We’ll keep you posted.

Historic bicycles in two regional exhibits Our neighboring counties to the south are looking at the history of bicycling, not only the facinating machines but also changes to society that the bicycle enabled.

Ventura County Museum of History and Art. Their exhibit, “Free Wheeling: Bicycling Through Ventura County History” will run through August 31. It has bicycles, bicycle equipment and photographs from the 1880s to the present, highlighting residents who bike for work, pleasure and competition. It also explores the role that local bicyclists played in the Good Roads Movement and Women’s Rational Dress Movement.

The museum is at 100 East Main Street, Ventura. Information at 805-653-0323 or www.vcmha.org/bikeevents.htm.

Pasadena Museum of History. Their exhibit, “Wheels of Change: Bicycles and Their

Impact on American Culture” will run through August 1. Pasadena was a hotbed of early California bicycling because the trains that connected Chicago manufacturing brought the newest bikes to the Pasadena terminus.

For years, Rose Parades were bike parades, comprised of hundreds of bicycles decorated with flowers and pedaled down Colorado Boulevard on New Year’s morning. Early Rose Parade floats were made by hooking bicycles together. Afterwards, everybody biked to the “Tournament of Roses Bicycle Races” with top racers competing at the Rose Bowl velodrome.

The Pasadena Museum is at 470 West Walnut Street, Pasadena. Phone them for details at 626-577-1660 or go online at http://pasadenahistory.org.

Popular bike routes under construction MONTECITO CALMING. Traffic lanes were narrowed to make room for a bikelane and parking.

Back in April 2001, the Coalition’s Ralph Fertig complained about the Hot Springs Road bikelane in Montecito ending in onstreet parking west of the Von’s shopping plaza. Cyclists had to move into traffic to avoid parked cars. Santa Barbara’s Rob Dayton assured him that it would be fixed when the city sealed and restriped the road.

True to their promise, the City did exactly that as seen in the recent photo. Thank you.

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Two popular South Coast bike routes are closed due to construction. North Jameson Lane in Montecito, shown in the photo, is being widened and three bridges replaced so bikelanes can be added to the stretch between Sheffield Drive and San Ysidro Road.

The other closure is on the Maria Ygancia bikepath in Goleta. It seems that storm water in the creek eroded part of the bikepath underneath Hollister Avenue. The work will repair current damage and help prevent more in the future. It’s hoped that the path will reopen in early July.

New Shoreline bikepath opens

SB praises bikeways

be no problem When the City of because cyclists Santa Barbara first keep up with proposed reducing motorists on the four lanes of downhill section, Shoreline drive to and shortly after, two lanes, it was the road flattens met with emoout, and a striped tional approval bikelane appears. and opposition.

And those headThe idea was to ing downhill who replace half of the do not wish to roadway with a ride in the street wider sidewalk, can now take the more landcaping, bikepath and and a new halfchoose at the mile bikepath.

OPEN FOR TRAVEL. This shows the fork in the Shoreline bottom to rejoin Although some bikepath where downhill bicyclists can enter the road the street or concyclists were con- (left) or continue into Leadbetter parking (right). tinue into the cerned because the Leadbetter parking lot and eventually conplan would remove the bikelane on the nect with the Beachway path. downhill section of Shoreline Drive below As for those heading uphill on Shoreline, La Marina, it would benefit others with a the bikelane is still there. The alternative is parallel bikepath that would connect to pedal through Leadbetter parking, conLeadbetter Beach with Shoreline Park. nect into the bikepath, and then enter the Now complete and open to the public, road at a four-way stop at La Marina. Bikpeople seem to be very pleased with the ing into Shoreline Park is not allowed. new design.

Try it out when you have the chance.

Congestion on the road that some predicted isn’t happening. The wider sidewalk, Our thanks to the City officials and staff for this complex, but well conceived, designed, no longer next to fast motorists, better and constructed project. serves all users. The lost bikelane seems to

On June 3rd, Bicycle Coalition president Ralph Fertig received a proclamation from Santa Barbara Councilman Dan Secord about the National Bicycle Greenway program. That proclamation, along with dozens of others from all over the United States, are going to the NBG Fest in Chicago on July 30.

June Coalition meeting topics Our June 1st Bicycle Coalition meeting attracted 16 people to the County’s Public Works conference room to discuss these and other issues: • The Bicycle Coalition will donate a classic Univega bicycle to the Environmental Defense Center for their upcoming auction.

• Several Coalition members, including officers Gary Wissman and Ralph Fertig, are working on the Sustainability Project’s Blueprint for Sustainable Goleta Valley.

• County Planner Jamie Goldstein described the proposed Isla Vista parking plan and how it will limit car domination of IV.

• We considered Jim Cody’s suggested plan for a bikepath south of Hollister Avenue along the Airport in Goleta.

• Mike Hecker described his successful races in Los Olivos and Solvang, and announced that he’s managing evening mountain bike races in Elings Park, plus a Semana Nautica criterium in Santa Barbara.

• Ralph Fertig will participate in a National Bicycle Greenways event that will take place in Santa Barbara on June 3rd.

• Ralph Fertig asked for volunteers to help with a reduced bicyclist count in June, designed to test the theory that weather effects people’s decision to bicycle.

• Wilson Hubbell described Maria Ygnacia bikepath detours needed while reconstruction of the creekbed and path under Hollister Avenue takes place. Also, North Jameson Lane in Montecito will be occasionally closed in both directions during bridge replacement work.

• Erika Lindemann reported on the success of Traffic Solutions’ bicycle commuter activities in May.

• The July Coalition meeting will be in the evening, possibly at one of the Rusty’s Pizzas in Santa Barbara.

• Shela Fletcher from the County described staff recommendations for continuing to include the Santa Ynez River Trail in the Santa Ynez Valley Community Plan.

• Dates and locations for our Member Appreciation BBQ in August were discussed; Ralph Fertig will look into alternative prices and availability.

PROCLAMATION. Councilman Dan Secord, right, gives the City’s proclamation to Ralph Fertig.

The proclamation, signed by Mayor Marty Blum, observes the benefits of bicycling: • More people in the United States can realize increased personal strength, weight loss and self sufficiency from bicycling, resulting in a greater sense of well being.

• Bicycling can unclog our streets, clean up our air and lessen our dependence on foreigh oil.

• The children of our nations deserve safe travel paths.

• Santa Barbara actively promotes bicycling as an important mode of transportation in preserving our quality of life.

• We have over 40 miles of marked cycling routes to encourage residents to bike for transportation and recreation.

• Many of our local MTD buses are equipped to safely transport bicycles and cyclists.

• The City of Santa Barbara has instituted a program featuring “Breezer” bicycles for City employees traveling to meetings within and outside of City buildings.

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Upcoming bike meetings & events July 6, General Meeting. This is another one of our evening meetings. It will take place at Rusty's Pizza, 232 West Carrillo Street, Santa Barbara. Come for an optional no-host dinner at 6:00 PM, or just join us for our meeting at 7:00. Phone president Ralph Fertig, 962-1479 or email him at sbralph@cox.net.

July 10, Semana Nautica Criterium, sponsored by the Santa Barbara Bicycle Club.

This criterium takes place at Alameda Park near Downtown Santa Barbara, with $5500 in cash and prizes to winners. Races start at 8:00 AM and run throughout the day. There will also be a free kids race for those up to 10 years old at 12:00 noon. Register online at www.active.com. Get details by phoning 966-1807 or going to www.ridesb.com.

July 14, 14, 17 and 22, Goleta Community Workshops, sponsored by the City of Goleta. This month, there are four public workshops that offer choices about Goleta’s future, including transportation. Four alternative directions for the city’s upcoming General Plan will be considered. Direct questions to 961-7500 or go to http:// goleta.govoffice.com. The workshops are the same format, they just have different dates and locations: • July 14, Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, 2:00-4:30 PM.

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• July 14, Goleta Valley Community Center, 5679 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, 7:00-9:30 PM. • July 17, Goleta Union School District, 401 North Fairview Avenue, Goleta, 9:30 AM12:00 noon.

• July 22, Ellwood School, 7686 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, 7:00-9:30 PM. July 17, Windmill Century, sponsored by the Tailwinds Bicycle Club. Choice of full century, a metric century, or a new 40-mile ride out of Los Alamos over lightly-traveled roads. Enjoy cycling past range land, vineyards, horse farms, hills, canyons—and yes, even windmills. Food stops, sag support, and dinner with Santa Maria style top sirloin or chicken barbecue, or a vegetarian option, at the end. Phone 922-4864 or get an entry form at www.bbcnet.com/tailwinds/ WindMill/windmill.htm.

July 18, Semana Nautica Mountain Bike Short Course XC Race, sponsored by RideSB.com. Races run all morning and into the afternoon on a 3-4 mile course in Elings Park in Santa Barbara. Depending on your class, races will be 3-7 laps of the course. Lunch included afterwards. Register online at www.active.com. Get details by going to www.ridesb.com.

July 20 and 27, SB Twilight Dirt Crit Series, sponsored by RideSB.com. This is a new 7-week series of Tuesday early evening mountain bike training races. The races are held at Elings Park in Santa Barbara; bike there if you can. Registration starts at 5:00, races at 6:00 and 6:45 PM. All races end with a meal. Details at www.bikesb.com. Register for the entire 7-race series only at www.active.com.

Member BBQ Aug 8 Mark your calendars for a fun afternoon at our annual Member Appreciation Barbecue.

Note that this year it’s at a new location: Member Appreciation Barbeque Sunday, August 8, 1:00 PM Tucker’s Grove County Park, Area 3 It’s open to all Bicycle Coalition members, their family and invited friends. Watch for an invitation coming to you in the mail.

For Santa Barbara County Bike Maps, info on ridesharing and van pools, just call: 963-SAVE. Quick Release • July 2004 • Page 4

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Mary Byrd promotes cleaner air

by Ralph Fertig

For Mary Byrd, the bicycle is a way to get around town. She uses her comfortable bike to commute to her job with the Air Pollution Control District, adding extra miles along the Obern Trail some mornings just for fun. Or she bikes with her 17-year old daughter for lunch at Hendry’s Beach.

MARY WITH BIKE. Mary Byrd likes the comfortable and casual biking that her steed gives her.

Although Mary recalls her first blue bicycle when she was in second grade, bicycling has not been an important part of her life.

But it is definitely a part of the mosaic for her and her family’s lives that are lived with a concern for a clean environment.

Today’s subdued Santa Barbara lifestyle does not hint at Mary’s prior life. Born in Washington DC, Mary has experienced life in cities throughout the world, including Budapest, Jakarta, and Munich.

At Swathmore College in Pennsylvania, Mary majored in theater and psychology.

After school, she was engaged in OffBroadway theater, and even toured the country with a theater group. Then she did an about face, left big city life, and moved to tiny Espanola, New Mexico, where she wrote newspaper articles about environmental topics. But better job opportunities eventually drew her and her busband John Fisher to Los Angeles, and finally up the coast to Santa Barbara.

Over the past three years, Mary has been active in the Santa Barbara Car Free program that encourages visitors and residents to get around the South Coast by non-automotive means. The Bicycle Coalition has been an active partner with Mary and her program from the beginning, and looks forward to working with her —and bicycling— into our collective futures.

GVCC funds projects

UCSB cycles to recycle

For the last 25 years, the Goleta Valley Cycling Club has raised funds and used the money to promote safe recreational bicycling. At their June 13th meeting that followed a bike ride and barbecue picnic, members voted to fund five worthy causes out of eight that were proposed.

We’re honored that both proposals from the Bicycle Coalition were funded: • Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition $1,000 for ongoing programs.

• Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition, $900 for flashing safety bike lights for kids.

• Santa Barbara City Fire Department, $500 to distribute helmets to children biking without them.

• Santa Barbara County Public Health, $750 for their affordable bicycle helmet program.

• Undesignated, $600 to a local nonprofit or school for two bicycles for children.

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Over just the previous two years, the popular club has funded over $10,000 for bicycle safety events, affordable helmets, trail maintenance, bicycling facilities, and land preservation. GVCC members additionally volunteer throughout the year to clean the Obern Trail bikepath, and to support local charity bike rides including those benefiting the ASAP Cat Rescue, Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes, and American Lung Associations.

The GVCC is the Santa Barbara County’s oldest recreational bicycle club.

In 1978, they incorporated as a nonprofit to provide recreational activities and donations for bicycle safety. Each year, the club raises funds through its People Powered Ride. Scheduled this year on October 10, the award-winning event has 30, 62, and 100-mile rides around the Santa Ynez Valley. Learn more about the club, its members and activities at their site www.goletabike.org or by phoning their new president (and Bicycle Coalition member) Doris Phinney at 968-3143.

Most Americans think bikes are for recreation. Most people reading Quick Release also think of bikes as transportation. Unfortunately, few of us think of bikes as work tools. However, bikes provide a cheap and environmentally friendly alternative to motor vehicles in many work environments. The Associated Students Recycling Program (ASRP) at UC Santa Barbara is a stellar example of an organization that is putting bikes to work.

ager, using pedal power was the logical choice for servicing the bins.

“We collect recyclable materials in bins made from recycled materials Chuck Anderson, Board and use human Member power to service them. It makes a nice loop,” she explained.

Since no commercial bike at the time could handle the load, the ASRP commissioned a custom-built bike trailer from the folks at Adam’s RV. Since then, the commercial market has caught up with the ASRP’s vision and they now use trikes and trailers from Lightfoot Cycles. Five student workers a day ride the rigs on one of 25 different routes that combine to service all 72 campus bins over the course of a week. Combined, the ASRP rigs transEASY ON THE EARTH. AS Recycling rider Scott Cope port approximately 30,000 pounds of puts his bike to work. Photo by Chuck Anderson. recyclable materials a year! (Check out the ASRP site—www.as.ucsb.edu/asr—for more In 1992, the ASRP started installing outdoor recycling bins across campus. The interesting details.) bins are custom-manufactured to ASRP Every day, A.S. Recycling demonstrates specifications and feature 100% post-conthat bikes are effective workhorses transsumer recycled plastic. They collect alumiporting heavy loads in an environmentally num, plastic, glass and newspaper, and friendly and cost-efficient manner. Let’s get have space for non-recyclable trash. Acother businesses within Santa Barbara County to follow their lead! cording to Mary Ann Hopkins, ASRP man-

SB City bikeposts

Bike to Work T-shirts

The City of Santa Barbara needs your help.

They want to more install “hitching-post” bike racks on public land, and need advice about where. If there’s a place where bikes are locked to trees, signs and so on, a bike post is needed. So take a digital photo and email it with a description to Rob Dayton, rdayton@ci.santa-barbara.ca.us. That’s all.

If you missed getting a T-shirt on Bike to Work Day, you can still buy one while they last. Regular shirts are $5, and the women’s style is $12 (only XL size is left, but they run small). Contact Erika Lindemann at 961-8919 to order. Pick them up at Traffic Solutions office, or have them mailed for $2 more.

Active members Please thank and support the following Bicycle Coalition business members: • Hazard’s Cyclesport, Santa Barbara • Rincon Cycles, Carpinteria

We welcome new members Mark & Pamela Polomski, and Carla Neufeldt.

And we certainly thank those who renewed their memberships: Mark Mittermiller, David & Christine Bourgeois, Cheryl Everett, Robert Goettler, Tom Towle and Pierre Delong.

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Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition Regional bicycle clubs & groups Road repair contacts President, Ralph Fertig, 962-1479 sb-ralph@cox.net

Vice President, Chuck Anderson 893-4616, mtbchuck@cox.net Secretary, Drew Hunter, 542-5112 watair1@earthlink.net

Treasurer, Gary Wissman, 964-4607 gary@gwissman.com

Director, Mike Hecker, 966-1807 hecktone@cox.net

Director, Don Lubach, 964-7798 dlubach@mac.com

Director, Jim Marshall, 962-3531 Jim2Mars@aol.com

Director, Nancy Mulholland, 563-9073 nmulhol04@yahoo.com

Director, Dru van Hengel, 564-5544 dvanhengel@ci.santa-barbara.ca.us

Advisor, Wilson Hubbell, 568-3046 hubbell@co.santa-barbara.ca.us

Advisor, Erika Lindemann, 961-8919 elindemann@sbcag.org

Bicycle Touring Club of Solvang

Caltrans

Dan Henry, 688-3330 Cyclone Racing, Beth Wallace 753-6673, xyzbethie@aol.com Echelon Santa Barbara, Mark Purcell markpurcell@cox.net

Carpinteria

Goleta Valley Cycling Club

Ray Harris, 736-5454

SB Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers Chris Orr, 964-0362 mtbchriso@yahoo.com

Santa Barbara City 897-2630 Wilson Hubbell, 568-3046 hubbell@co.santa-barbara.ca.us

Mike Hecker, 966-1807 hecktone@cox.net

Santa Maria

Santa Barbara BMX Dale Bowers, LBowers508@aol.com

Philip Chang, 968-4082 pchang@physics.ucsb.edu

Larry Bean, 736-1261 l_bean@ci.lompoc.ca.us

Santa Barbara County

Santa Barbara Bicycle Club

UCSB Cycling Club

Goleta Lompoc

Lompoc Valley Bicycle Club

Carl Beerup, 474-9099 beerup@charter.net

Rick Fulmer, 684-5405 x411 rickf@ci.carpinteria.ca.us Steve Wagner, 961-7511 swagner@cityofgoleta.org

Doris Phinney, 968-3143 Cyclebug@aol.com

Tailwinds Bicycle Club

Pat Mickelson, 968-5779 pat_mickelson@dot.ca.gov

Rick Sweet, 925-0951 x227 71064.3132@compuserve.com

Solvang Tom Rowe, 688-5575 tomr@cityofsolvang.com

UCSB Dennis Whelan, 893-7009 Dennis.Whelan@bap.ucsb.edu

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