Attendees
- Cody Rosenbarker
- Lindsey Lyons
- Claudia Bonaccorsi
- Ken Shultes
- Sophie Mahoney
- James Ciarrocca
- Kim Wampler
- George Grassel
- Andrew Connell
- Jeanette Diamond
BAC purpose?
- Make the college and surrounding community a bicycle friendly environment.
More specifically…
- Promote the engineering of a comprehensive, connected, and well-maintained network
- Offers diverse bicycle education programs for campus cyclists and motorists
- Maintains and expands The Handlebar, Dickinson’s Bicycle Co-Op
- Encourages and incentivizes bicycling for students, faculty, and staff
- Continues developing enforcement for bike riding and parking and all road users
- Develops evaluation plans and procedures to assess all elements of a comprehensive bicycle plan
New Members
- Jessee Vasold from student life has now agreed to be on the committee
- Chad Mader from facilities has now agreed to be on the committee
Biking@Dickinson Updates
- Green bike program: 50 bikes out
- Handlebar: Great number of open hours, 75 visitors this semester (17 with a class)
- Professional Bike Maintenance Workshop, 12 people attended
- Red bikes update
- Looking for more volunteers to help with long-term sustainability of Handlebar!
What’s New with Biking@Dickinson?
- Sculpture outside of Handlebar – working on plaque
- Cider n Cycles event – super popular got a lot of new people to experience the space
- Bike to Block Party
- Tea kettle for Handlebar
- New bike racks around campus
- Door to the Handlebar was painted red
- “Humans of the Handlebar” project
- Bike safety campaign in the works
Following up on the Future of Biking@Dickinson Survey Results:
Engineering Survey Responses and BAC Responses to make Dickinson and the surrounding community a bicycle friendly environment:
- we could consider a speed bump? Other than that, a lot of effort for very little gain
- Done!
- This is more Carlisle Borough, they are looking into this
- we will investigate this…
- Covered bike racks! 1) where? 2) funding?
Education Survey Responses and BAC Responses to make Dickinson and the surrounding community a bicycle friendly environment:
- Work with Kim Wampler on this
- Working with Kim Wampler on this
- Look into this
- This, and many other topics, can fit into our bicycle safety campaign!
- We did not respond to this prompt
We did not have time to go over Encouragement or Enforcement suggested areas for improvement. Next meeting!
Bicycle Safety campaign
- This is a multi-faceted campaign aimed at increasing understanding and adoption of bicycle safety measures. All efforts would point people toward a centralized safety training/hub where they would be certified bicycle safety ambassadors.
- The goal is to have people understand the importance of a few bicycle safety points. Then, they receive some sort of visual reminder (a branded bike light?) to put on their bicycle. Whenever they see/use that item, they would be reminded of their commitment.
Approach ideas:
- Posters, signs at racks, bicycle safety flyers with bike registration, “Did you know?” series with information like how you can get a DUI on a bicycle, revamp Green Bike training and require a smaller refresher course every semester they take out a bike, work with storage bike users, “ghost bikes,” Dson today, “You are x% safer” poster, new hire orientation, flyer for safety in 1st year packet, on bike route maps, etc.
Any other ideas?
- THE ABOVE APPROACHES ALL POINT TO THE CENTRAL HUB ->
Central Hub Ideas:
- Totora quiz?
- Have a designated touch screen with this available?
- QR code?