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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

November 7th meeting Join us on the first Tuesday of the month for our general meeting: Tuesday, November 7th Santa Barbara Bank & Trust Community Room 1021 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara 12:00 noon

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November 2006

Bike-friendly Measure D—now or never

by Ralph Fertig, President

What is probably the greatest opportunity in our lifetimes to make a difference for the future of bicycling in Santa Barbara County is within our grasp. It’s in Measure D transportation tax renewal coming before us for approval or rejection on November 7th.

We are being offered the most bicyclist-favorable transportation measure in the state of California. If we let this golden opportunity slip from our grasp, I guarantee that we will be run over by aggressive motorists who assert that we deserve We’re all pedaling toward a future that could be wonderful or dismal, depending on Measure D’s passage little from the taxes we all pay. or rejection.

I have personally followed the development of the renewal Measure D content over the past two • Traffic Solutions alternative programs years. It has been along a trail of rising optimism • Regional and local buses • Senior and disabled transit as organizations, elected officials, individuals, In addition, 50% of the revenue goes directly to and government staff have worked with unpreceach city and the county to maintain roads and edented cooperation in forging a forward-looking other transportation facilities. Finally, there is a measure that will serve our transportation needs list of roadway widening, for decades to come. safety, and congestion relief Unlike the original 1989 measures that will be funded if Measure D, the proposed reMeasure D passes. Widening newal ensures that alternatives Highways 101, 1 and 246, like to the car will receive deserved The Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition’s it or not, are major components recognition. One-third of our Board of Directors endorses the of the whole balanced package. renewal of Measure D this November residents have no ready access 7th. The benefits for people who Measure D’s cup is 95% full. to motor vehicles due to cost, bicycle will come to us for decades Don’t let detractors cry over the age, or physical disabilities. from passage of the measure. Please missing 5%. It’s money that Measure D will meet the needs vote YES on Measure D. will stay in Santa Barbara of us all with these programs: County, will attract state and • Safe routes to school • Regional bicycle facilities and education federal dollars, and will carry us into a sustain• Commuter rail, Ventura-to-Goleta able transportation future.

Coalition Board endorses Measure D

Join our 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 application details.

Castillo Street is finally finished—and it’s dry

Our CycleSmart program The Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition’s CycleSmart bicyclist education program offers bicycling skills classes for school children and adults.

Look for details of upcoming classes inside Quick Release, or contact our Co-coordinators Dru van Hengel and Erika Lindemann by email CycleSmart@sbbike.org.

Castillo undercrossing serves many bicyclists.

After 16 months of testing and intermittent construction, Caltrans finally finished the Castillo Street undercrossing of Highway 101 in Santa Barbara. Plagued for years with water seepage due to a high water table, the road is an important connection for bicyclists, but has been a treacherous one due to standing water and broken pavement.

It’s a link for City College students and for those heading to the waterfront for jobs, dining and recreation.

The roadway now has a smooth layer of asphalt on top of the “electro-osmosis” moisture removal system that was developed by the government.

Bikelanes have been restriped on the roadway. We appreciate the patience from everybody, and thank Caltrans for the final result.

Bicycling in Andalucía, Spain

by Ralph Fertig

It’s hard to know what bicycling in a foreign country is like until you actually go there. Last month, I found out as I spent two weeks biking around Southern Spain. What I had heard was that motorists are crazy, they speed everywhere, they honk at bicyclists, and the only people on bikes are recreational cyclists. Some of that turned out to be true.

I spent three days each in Sevilla, Córdoba, and Granada, with six days biking among the cities on a Trek hybrid bike that I rented from Cycling Country, Many roads in the countryside had good a bike touring company. shoulders and warning signs alerting Because of gas at $6 a gallon, and narrow streets motorists to the presence of bicyclists. in the historic sections of the cities, small cars, motorcycles, pedestrians and bicycles dominate. Not an SUV in sight. There were a large number of people bicycling, not just children, but adults obviously depending on their bikes for daily transportation. Some streets were less than 12 feet wide building-to-building with “sidewalks” a foot wide or less. Often I had to step into a doorway to let cars pass.

Except when gridlocked, motorists speed too much and were too careless. I saw two cars crash at a T-intersection in Carmona, and later a truck tore a side-view mirror off a bus while passing in Granada. Thankfully, they were totally considerate of bicyclists, giving me lots of space when passing. And only a handful of times did any beep at me.

The large cities had a few bikepaths, so I mostly biked on the streets with everybody else. I learned to follow the motorscooters and motorcycles in weaving around stalled cars, and follow the bicyclists onto sidewalks. Whether there are any laws about biking on sidewalks, I don’t know, but if so, they are not observed and everybody seems to adjust to it all. Supposedly, helmets are required, but except for me and groups of long-distance cyclists, I rarely saw any.

Basically, I found biking in Andalucía a genuine pleasure and October was a perfect time of year.

I have to relate an experience that connects us to Spain. I stayed one night at the Hospedería de San Francisco in Palma del Rio. It’s a former Franciscan monastery, Bicyclists traverse the Plaza de las Tendillas in Córdoba, build in 1492, where Junípero consisting of fountains, pedestrians, outdoor cafés, and Serra studied before coming to the people enjoying the passing pageant of life.

New World to establish a series of nine missions in Alta California. As I wandered the corridors, I found an old oil painting of our Mission Santa Bárbara on the wall. It bundled everything together in our shrinking world. I smiled, felt immediately at home—then walked on down the hall.

TGI/Hazards Team is helping our community The Bicycle Coalition welcomed Patrick Flood, a member of TGI/Hazards Cycling Team (formerly Team Kona) who came to our October meeting. We considered what his pro team might do to help our community. What came out of the meeting are these top priorities for involvement: • Organize the Friday night VIP party for the Amgen Tour of California February 23rd.

• Make a showing at the ATOC pre-race Quick Release • November 2006 • Page 2

start in Santa Barbara and to lead out the proposed kids races.

• Get two team members certified as bike safety trainers and piggyback on the local law-enforcement school safety program.

• Put together a meeting between city, lawenforcement, and local cyclists to set an agreed upon protocol for group riding in Santa Barbara county.

Read about the team at www.konavproad.com.

Kirby James to speak at our meeting Please join us at our regular monthly noon meeting on November 7th. We will have a guest, Kirby James, who is secretary of the Cyclists Touring Club, Exeter Section, in England. He will show photos of bicycling conditions in England and discuss their good and their difficult situations. He writes, “I suspect that many of the fundamental problems will be the same.”

There will be many other topics as well, just be sure to vote first, then join us.

Coalition asserts that bicycling is safe In response to a misleading letter in the Santa Barbara News-Press, Bicycle Coalition president Ralph Fertig sent the following that was published on October 2nd: A recent letter to the News-Press fosters a misunderstanding of bicycling safety.

The writer says that “riding a bicycle, even on bike lanes, is extremely dangerous.” Bicycling is not extremely dangerous. It is safer per hour of exposure than many other activities, like soccer, football, swimming, squash, motorcycling or basketball. We’re also more likely to die per hour in a car than on a bicycle.

As for bike lanes, they’re the safest place to bicycle. In terms of accidents per mile, bike lanes are safer than sidewalks, bike paths, or streets without bike lanes.

Bike lanes encourage good behavior by decreasing illegal wrong-way and sidewalk biking. They additionally make driving conditions safer because motorists are less likely to swerve into oncoming traffic when bike lanes are present than when they are absent.

Rather than being harmful, bicycling is overall healthful. Increased longevity among people who bicycle far outweighs potential loss of life by 20 to 1. The health benefits of bicycling include reduction of heart disease, strokes, lung disease, and diabetes.

Finally, I agree with the writer that we need safer conditions and more education for children. We have an opportunity to do exactly that by funding the safe routes to school program that is part of Measure D up for a vote this November. If we pass Measure D, it will provide $1.5 million a year countywide for sidewalks, crossings, bike paths away from traffic, and education to improve the safety of all children.

Help children learn how to bicycle safely

by Debbie Castanha

As the Coalition for Sustainable Transportation’s new coordinator for Safe Routes to School (SR2S), I extend a debt of gratitude to the SB Bicycle Coalition’s active membership for your efforts on behalf of all cyclists, young and old.

Many schools have parents who are committed to SR2S, but we’d love for more individuals passionate about bikes, children’s safety, and related issues to consider either supporting an existing school’s program or initiating a new one.

COAST and its SR2S program are especially grateful to the LiOops! Foothill Elementary 4-6 graders watch the helmet-less censed Cycling Instructors (LCIs) melon splatter during the COAST-sponsored bike safety who year after year extend their presentation on Walk to School Day. volunteerism to our schools by two hour commitment once a year and no sharing their cycling expertise at local experience is necessary. schools’ bike rodeos. Our community still • Assist with bike tune-up and helmet has plenty of room to educate our youth fitting. These special events will take about cycling safety and etiquette, as replace at various schools. Dates to be flected by the recent and infamous Santa determined; it’s an hour commitment.

Barbara News-Press photo of a young stu• Subsidize low cost helmets. Some dent riding with no hands and unstrapped schools need this financial assistance for helmet! their students.

If you’re not an LCI, but still wish to help • Make a small cash donation. You know that many schools struggle for the the kids, there are other ways to support necessities, and many schools with the program. You might consider: would-be bikers could use a little incen• Adopt a school to help with their Safe tive, prize, or healthy snack during a Routes Program. Some schools lack special event such as Bike to School Day. parent support or simply don’t have • Help provide supplies for bike rodeos. enough volunteers, often because both Right now, we’re looking for new or used parents work. Perhaps you’d be interested orange cones (6-10) and traffic delineator in helping schools which would like to host poles (8-12 to delineate our course from a bike rodeo or helmet fitting event, but the playground). which have inadequate support. Or, maybe If you can help in any way or want to hear you’d like to help plan events for Bike to more, contact Debbie Castanha at 687School Day next May at a school, or assist the volunteer LCIs at a rodeo—just a one to 0011, or debbie_castanha@hotmail.com.

MS Bike Ride & Fest pledges increase

Cyclists at Leadbetter start on the 75-mile route.

On October 21-22, the MS Bike Tour & Fest expanded from one to two days, offering participants a choice of rides from 12 miles to 200 miles over one or both days.

They are delighted to report that the pledge by cyclists greatly increased over their 2005 ride, even though their 700+ rider participation was lower for this Tour.

This year, the ride started on Saturday in Thousand Oaks with a ride to Santa Barbara, then continued Sunday with a choice of rides out of Leadbetter Beach in Santa Barbara. Congratulations to the Multiple Sclerosis Society for a great event.

Hollister becoming better for bicyclists Steve Wagner, Community Services Director for the City of Goleta, reports that new bikelanes will be striped on Hollister Avenue from the Community Center east to Highway 217. In addition, they have reduced inside travel lane width so there is a foot more space for bicyclists next to parked motor vehicles in Old Town Goleta.

That’s still not enough for an official bikelane, but it’s better than before.

Wagner plans to reinstall bikelane symbols outside the car parking spaces. Bicycle Coalition president Ralph Fertig suggested that it might be a good place to use the Caltrans recentlyapproved “sharrows.” They are “shared lane arrows” that consist of two chevrons and a bike logo as shown here. You can read more about sharrows here: www.sbbike.org/docs/sharrows.pdf.

Charges filed in death of Jake Boysel Santa Barbara County’s District Attorney Tom Sneddon filed charges of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter against Ernesto Botello in the collision and death of Jake Boysel. The charges were filed on October 24th and an arraignment is scheduled for November 13th.

The 12-year old Boysel was killed while he was biking to school in a bikelane on September 7th in Calle Real just west of Highway 154 intersection. The maximum possible sentence is a year in jail.

Cell phone bill signed by governor It remains to be seen how much our safety will actually be improved, but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislative bill SB 1613. It acknowledges the distraction that cellular phones cause motor vehicle operators by prohibiting drivers from using a handheld wireless phone while operating an automobile, except in emergencies. While it is a step towards increasing safety for bicyclists, it certainly seems that the distraction of using any cell phones while driving will continue to be a problem.

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Burn baby, burn!

15 years of Quick Release

Ever wonder whether a high-caloric treat after a bike ride is justified by your exertion? Let us help you figure it out. The table below shows you how many calories you will expend per hour on a bike ride. It depends simply on your weight and speed.

With this issue, our 181st one, we begin our sixteenth year of publication of the Bicycle Coalition’s monthly newsletter. Started by volunteer Ralph Fertig in November 1991 to help our new organization, the informative newsletter has continued uninterrupted since then.

Upcoming bike meetings and events November 4, Solvang Prelude, sponsored

by SCOR Cardiac Cyclists Club. Traditional fall ride attracts thousands and closes out the local recreational season. Choice of 25, 50 or 63-mile rides out of Solvang. Roving sag support, food stops, vendor expo, optional barbecue at end. Information online at www.bikescor.com or phone 562-690-9693.

Further, consider that even after you stop pedaling, your metabolism stays elevated, and you will continue to burn more than usual energy for some time.

If you want to know more about how much energy you burn with other activities, you can check out numbers for them at www.fitnesslogs.com/calories3.htm, the source of our data and graph.

November 7, Bicycle Coalition General Meeting, sponsored by our Bicycle Coalition. Meeting at noon, first Tuesday of the month. Community Room at the Santa Barbara Bank and Trust building, 1021 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara. Phone president Ralph Fertig, 962-1479 or email him at sb-ralph@cox.net.

School is back in session and UCSB’s Associated Students BIKES committee has launched into a program of ideas for improving campus conditions for the 15,000 who bike there. They have generated a list of projects for the year that includes new bikepaths, path resurfacing, bike parking issues, rule enforcement, path lighting, the interface between paths and parking, and design concerns.

This confusing intersection south of the Library is a major concern of the BIKES committee.

November 11, Solvang's Finest Century, sponsored by Planet Ultra. This charity ride benefits the Challenged Athletes Foundation that has raised over $6 million and distributed over 1,600 stipends to physically challenged individuals across the United States and around the world. The ride includes an event t-shirt, water bottle, a post-ride meal, route sheet, four fully stocked checkpoints along the course, and roving SAG. Registration and details at www.planetultra.com.

From student “lock-in fees” voted to support AS BIKES’s efforts, they have money to finance projects. That is augmented with University’s matching dollars, but it’s still inadequate to meet the needs. Learn more at http://as.ucsb.edu/bikes.

November 24, Santa Barbara Critical Mass Ride, sponsored by nobody. There have been all kinds of Critical Mass bike rides around the world, ranging from fun, lawabiding group rides to lawless in-your-face protests that involve violence and arrests.

Santa Barbara's rides are the former.

Alameda Park, Santa Barbara, 5:30 PM.

Please thank and support the following Bicycle Coalition business members:

Best of SB bicycles Both the Santa Barbara Independent and News-Press recently reported their annual surveys of the best places in the South Coast to shop. Both agree that the “Best Bike Shop” is Bicycle Bob’s; finalist positions are shared by Open Air Bicycles and Hazard’s CycleSport. The News-Press also offers “Best Bike Rentals” with Wheel Fun Rentals first, and Beach Bike Rentals a finalist. Congratulations to all the winning businesses.

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UCSB students address bike needs

We thank our active members • • • • • • • • •

Bicycle Bob’s, Santa Barbara Big Gear Bike Gear, Santa Barbara Café de Velo, Santa Barbara Jeffrey Stoutenborough, Architect, Santa Barbara King Cycle Group, Portland, Oregon Nett & Champion Insurance Services, Santa Barbara Open Air Bicycles, Santa Barbara Pedal Power Bicycles, Santa Maria Santa Barbara Electric Bicycle Company, Santa Barbara

In addition, we welcome new members David Gaines, Peter Schuyler, Joseph Beck, Kathy Foltz, Stuart Feinstein, David Powdrell, Keith Kie, Christopher Proudman and Jesse Wickizer. We further thank Bill Pollock who renewed his membership.

Diane Soini, bicyclist from childhood

by Ralph Fertig

Diane Soini learned to ride her bike when she was five years old, and hasn’t stopped since. Her first bike was succeeded with a Raleigh 3speed, Nishiki 10-speed, Trek mountain bike, Lightning recumbent, and recently, a Catrike Pocket trike.

A native of the South Coast area, Diane has degrees in geology and women’s studies. She works as a web developer at QAD in Summerland, and bikes there from Santa Barbara’s Westside. “Riding my bike to work keeps me healthy and helps me let off some stress,” she says. “I get to expe- Diane Soini enjoys her Catrike Pocket trike along rience nature and the changing of the Camino Cielo in the Santa Ynez Mountains. seasons. I love how strong the smell year ago after reading how bad bicycling is of flowers are in February and how cold it in other parts of the country, and realizing gets in the morning this time of year, and the good work we are doing to make cycling the smell of all the good food cooking on a viable and pleasurable form of transporthe Westside in the evening.” tation here. She joined us to give someHer love affair with recumbent bikes thing back. “All you guys who attend those started at the Lightning factory in Lompoc. tedious planning meetings deserve so much Then she discovered a recumbent group in praise and so many thank yous.”

Ventura and started riding with them. Next Diane thinks that all kids should bike to was a national group with a web site http:// school if they live close enough. “It’s a necbentrideronline.com. They hold an annual New York rally that she flew to last year. Taking essary life skill to get some place on time under your own power. It fosters personal her recumbent was a challenge. “What an responsibility and independence.” She conordeal,” Diane says. “Flying a bike out is tinues, “we need to create more safe backdifficult especially when it doesn’t really fit routes for kids so they don't have to ride in the box. But the rally was fun.” the heavy-traffic arterials to get to school.

At the rally, she met one of bicycling’s Jake Boysel’s death was a loud tragedy, gurus, Sheldon Brown. “He came to but all the kids denied the independence speak, and although I ate dinner with him and freedom of cycling is a quiet tragedy.” and noticed all these bike geek guys hangWhat does our future hold? Diane enviing on his every word, I had no idea who sions commuter rail where people bring on earth he was. Sheldon rides a trike and bikes on board to ride that final stretch. “I looks really cute with his dyed red lepreknow most people think that alternative chaun beard and leprechaun hat.” [See transportation is for the other guy but for Brown’s web site www.sheldonbrown.com].

Diane loves bicycling because she can go me, I can’t think of any better way to get to work than to buy a cup of coffee, read the fast under her own power. “It takes me 4 paper on the train, then ride my bike the days to walk 60 miles,” she observes, “but rest of the way. That is so much more apI can do that in an afternoon on my bike.”

Diane Soini joined our Bicycle Coalition a pealing to me than all the 101 traffic jams.

October Coalition meeting topics Our October 3rd monthly Bicycle Coalition meeting was an evening one at Madam Lu’s Restaurant that attracted 15 people.

We discussed these topics: • Passage of Measure D this November will be close. Bicyclists will greatly benefit from its renewal.

• The death of 12-year old Jake Boysel was discussed. We are awaiting charges to be filed.

• Rosanne Crawford, a candidate for the Santa Barbara School Board, talked about her concern for student safety.

• Ralph Fertig invited people to bike to sites featured in the Habitat for Humanity’s upcoming Tour of Green Homes.

• Dru van Hengel said that the “bikestation” in the Granada Garage will likely open for bicyclists late this year.

• Promotional opportunities in Solvang and Santa Barbara around the Amgen Tour of California were considered.

• We discussed with Patrick Flood from TGI/ Hazards how cycling team members might promote safe biking in our community.

• Michael Kwan invited people to join him for a Los Angeles Muertos ride.

• George Amoon, Goleta City planner, gave us a timeline between 2008-2011 for constructing the San Jose Creek Bikepath that will connect Cathedral Oaks Road with Goleta Beach.

• Ralph Fertig noted that Brooks Firestone effected the removal of trails from the Santa Ynez Valley Plan, including the important Santa Ynez River Trail that we strongly supported.

• Wilson Hubbell reported favorable conversations with Café de Velo owner Baron Corpuz about use of his shop for a “bicycle kitchen” type of program in Santa Barbara.

• Pros and cons of Santa Barbara’s critical mass rides were discussed. We will continue to watch its development.

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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, Wilson Hubbell, 6831240, wilsonhubbell@aol.com Secretary, Drew Hunter, 896-2119 watair1@earthlink.net

Treasurer, Mark McClure, 967-5031 mcclure606@yahoo.com

Director, Judy Keim, 687-2912 jkpedpad@aol.com

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

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

Director, David Bourgeois, 899-3728 daveb@alumni.caltech.edu

Caltrans

Bicycle Touring Club of Solvang

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

Dan Henry, 688-3330

The Cutters

Carpinteria

Mark Langowski, 937-3252 mark_langowski@dot.ca.gov

Dale Lipp, 684-5405 x402 dalel@ci.carpinteria.ca.us

Echelon Santa Barbara

Goleta

Mark Purcell, markpurcell@cox.net

Steve Wagner, 961-7511 swagner@cityofgoleta.org

Goleta Valley Cycling Club Doris Phinney, 968-3143

Lompoc

Cyclebug@aol.com

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

Lompoc Valley Bicycle Club Gene Pritchett, 733-2707

Santa Barbara City

Dr.Gene@gte.net

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

Santa Barbara County

Director, Nancy Mulholland, 563-9073 Santa Barbara Bicycle Club nmulhol04@yahoo.com

Advisor, Dru van Hengel, 564-5544 dvanhengel@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

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

Advisor, Matt Dobberteen, 568-3000 matt@cosbpw.net

Dave Court, david_court@earthlink.net

Santa Barbara BMX Dale Bowers, res0d201@verizon.net

Tailwinds Bicycle Club David Cantero, 937-4097 SMtailwinds@verizon.net

UCSB Cycling Club Matthew Post , 818-642-3553 plushk2@yahoo.com

Dru van Hengel, 564-5544 dvanhengel@SantaBarbaraCA.gov Matt Dobberteen, 568-3576 matt@cosbpw.net

Santa Maria Rick Sweet, 925-0951 x227 rsweet@ci.santa-maria.ca.us

Solvang Brad Vigro, 688-5575 bradv@cityofsolvang.com

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

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Please patronize these shops: Bicycle Bob’s 250 Storke Road #A, Goleta 15 Hitchcock Way, Santa Barbara Bicycle Connection 223 W. Ocean Avenue, Lompoc Big Gear Bike Gear 324 State Street #A, Santa Barbara Commuter Bicycles, 569-5381 Hazard’s Cyclesport 110 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara Mad Mike's Bikes 1108 E. Clark Avenue #G, Santa Maria Main Street Cycles 311 East Main Street, Santa Maria Open Air Bicycles 224 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara Pedal Power Bicycles 1740 Broadway, Santa Maria Santa Barbara Electric Bicycle 630 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara VeloPro Cyclery 633 State Street, Santa Barbara 5887 Hollister Avenue, Goleta

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