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www.sbbike.org Serving Santa Barbara County We’re a countywide advocacy and resource organization that promotes bicycling for safe transportation and recreation.

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

December 4th meeting Join us on the first Tuesday of the month for our general meeting: Tuesday, December 4th 12:00 noon Santa Barbara Bank & Trust Conference Room 1021 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara

Online email list We sponsor a free online email forum where you can post and read messages that pertain to regional bicycling issues. To subscribe, just send an email message to:

Meet our new Caltrans bikeman Come to our monthly meeting December 4th where we will be introducing David Kuperman, the new Bicycle/Pedestrian Coordinator for our Caltrans district, a job he started in October. He is involved with non-motorized transportation planning within the five-county Caltrans district that includes Santa Barbara County. Kuperman studied Transportation Technology and Policy at University of California Davis, where he received a Masters of Science degree. We expect that all the excellent bicycling facilities that Davis has crafted over the past four decades will be high in Kuperman’s consciousness. According to Aileen Loe, Caltrans Deputy District Director, Kuperman will serve as a resource both inside and outside Caltrans, and complement the Santa Barbara County planning efforts of Pat Mickelson and other contacts for regional agencies. He will consider local bicycle plans and assure that those plans are appropriately incorporated into Caltrans planning products. Finally, he will raise overall awareness about bicycling and pedestrian issues within District 5. So come to our noon meeting on December 4th to welcome Kuperman to our community.

December 2007

Missing UCSB bikepath link wins funding

A bicyclist heads east on the “Broida Expressway,” but cannot yet connect past Bren to Lagoon Road and the bikepath to the Obern Trail.

James Wagner, UCSB’s Transportation Alternatives Program manager was pleased that he was able to obtain funding to complete a missing bikepath link on campus. Working with the County’s Matt Dobberteen on the application for California’s Bicycle Transportation Account funding, they obtained $135,000 toward the $150,000 project that will be constructed next year.

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

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 . Quick Release is published monthly by the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition, PO Box 92047, Santa Barbara, CA 93190. Subscribe for $25 per year. Issue # 194.

UCSB students learn they can go places by bike Students at UCSB use bicycles as their main way to get to and around the campus, but most do not consider that their steeds can take them farther afield. To show them what’s possible under their existing pedal power, Katie Maynard, the campus Sustainability program coordinator, organized a Sunday morning bike tour on November 18th. The Bicycle Coalition’s Ralph Fertig led the way, accompanied by Associated Students’ BIKES committee chair Sarah Henkel. Students invited on the pilot ride were freshmen who live in Santa Rosa dormitory and expressed an interest in environmental studies. The 11-mile tour took them around campus, through Isla Vista, to the Marketplace farmers’ market, then over Highway 101 to the North Goleta Route bikeway, then south on Fairview to Goleta Beach and home. Henkel noted afterwards, “I do think they learned a lot and they really enjoyed it. One guy said to me that we should plan these ‘mini-adventures’ more often. It was definitely beneficial. I think it really opened their eyes about the possibility of actually getting somewhere on their Students on the bike tour stop at the Santa Barbara Airport bikes.” Overall, this might be the beginning of where they looked at new bike racks that accommodate 12 new, healthy mobility for the students. bikes. There were seven bicycles parked in them.


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