From hankr at earthlink.net Tue Nov 10 05:47:51 2009 From: hankr at earthlink.net (Hank) Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:47:51 -0500 Subject: [Bfbc-talk] Please send me news and items for the BFBC bulletin Message-ID: <01c501ca620c$666b0620$33411260$@net> Friends and Fellow Cyclists: I'm preparing the next monthly BFBC bulletin. Please send me any items of interest you'd like me to include. Please send as much information and detail as you can. Thanks! Hank Resnik Editor Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition bulletin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.lmi.net/pipermail/bfbc-talk/attachments/20091110/0775553d/attachment.html From pmorton at lmi.net Fri Nov 13 10:36:53 2009 From: pmorton at lmi.net (Phil Morton) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:36:53 -0800 Subject: [Bfbc-talk] Fwd: [GPC] missing Trek 5200 References: <167CAE946BEB2F479F41AF2ED22D759501F5DED5@nt-2.tra.int> Message-ID: From Grizzly Peak Cyclists email list > An abandoned blue Trek 5200 was found this morning near my house in > north Berkeley. Black handlebar tape. I'm afraid that's all the > information I've got on it at this point. The bike was found with a > damaged wheel in a neighbor's front yard. The bike has been put away > and the homeowner will call the police about it at some point today > (they were on their way to work). I'd suggest calling the Berkeley > Police about it this evening. > > Bruce From pmorton at lmi.net Tue Nov 17 10:30:43 2009 From: pmorton at lmi.net (Phil Morton) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:30:43 -0800 Subject: [Bfbc-talk] iPhone's Cycle Track app as a help to plan bicycle facilities Message-ID: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/17/BA141AK16V.DTL (and the usual slew of nasty comments about cyclists who don't stop at stop lights). From today's Chronicle: Cyclists' app aids traffic planners Michael Cabanatuan If you see bicyclists wobbling through the city streets with an iPhone in hand, don't assume they're playing Bejeweled or IMing their virtual pals while they pedal. They may be using Cycle Tracks, the San Francisco County Transportation Authority's new - and first - application for the Apple iPhone. Once bike riders install the app, they tap the "start recording" button, which begins tracking their trips and displaying them on a city map. When they're done pedaling, they hit the "save" button, and the details of their journeys are sent to the authority, as well as saved in the user's iPhone. The app uses GPS to track riders' routes. The authority plans to feed the data into the state-of-the-art computer model it uses to predict future traffic patterns. The goal is to figure out where bicyclists ride, why they choose those routes and how development decisions or transportation changes might affect them, said Billy Charlton, the authority's deputy director for technology services. As an incentive to get more cyclists to download and use Cycle Tracks, the authority is holding a drawing for 10 $50 iTunes gift cards. Anyone who downloads the app and uses it at least once will automatically be entered. For those secretive (or paranoid) cyclists who want to help out but might not want certain trips tracked, the authority offers some assurances. All trips are dumped into the database anonymously, they say, and someone who ends up pedaling somewhere they don't want anyone to know about can always hit the cancel button, and the evidence will be erased. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/17/BA141AK16V.DTL#ixzz0X8uQJTOP From pmorton at lmi.net Tue Nov 24 17:46:27 2009 From: pmorton at lmi.net (Phil Morton) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:46:27 -0800 Subject: [Bfbc-talk] Beauty and the Bike Message-ID: <86BAEACF-BF1F-4F52-99F5-ADC0E2E6D749@lmi.net> Warning: subtitles may be needed. http://www.bikebeauty.org/english/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88sF-rvul0&feature=player_embedded -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.lmi.net/pipermail/bfbc-talk/attachments/20091124/637bfd69/attachment.html From imgreen07 at att.net Tue Nov 24 18:32:23 2009 From: imgreen07 at att.net (Marcy Greenhut) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:32:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Bfbc-talk] Beauty and the Bike In-Reply-To: <86BAEACF-BF1F-4F52-99F5-ADC0E2E6D749@lmi.net> References: <86BAEACF-BF1F-4F52-99F5-ADC0E2E6D749@lmi.net> Message-ID: <484033.79385.qm@web81305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Thanks, Phil,?for sending this out.? This documentary would be great at a future bike film festival! I'm looking forward to seeing the entire movie some day. Marcy ________________________________ From: Phil Morton To: ebbc Cc: bfbc-talk at mailman.lmi.net Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 5:46:27 PM Subject: [Bfbc-talk] Beauty and the Bike Warning: subtitles may be needed. http://www.bikebeauty.org/english/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88sF-rvul0&feature=player_embedded -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.lmi.net/pipermail/bfbc-talk/attachments/20091124/ec5ba169/attachment.html From jamesmcvaney at yahoo.com Fri Nov 27 10:03:22 2009 From: jamesmcvaney at yahoo.com (James McVaney) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:03:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Bfbc-talk] $2 Million Funding Opportunity for the Berkeley Marina Bay Trail 12/03/09 Message-ID: <550053.79773.qm@web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I have not communicated to this email list before. However,here is some information I received about funding for the 1st segment of the Berkeley Marina's Bay Trail. I wanted to make sure you all know about it, and encourage you (or the appropriate person in your organization) to speak out at the Board meeting supporting the Bay Trail in the Berkeley Marina. Opportunities like this are rare. The below referenced meeting is on 12/03/09 at 3:30 pm at ACTIA Board room 1333 Broadway, Suite 300 Oakland Last week the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the Alameda County Congestion Management Authority (CMA) approved a recommendation on 2010 STIP funding to the CMA Board to support the Berkeley Bay Trail Project with $1,928,000 in FY 10-11. The Board will consider the item on 12/3. ~James McVaney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.lmi.net/pipermail/bfbc-talk/attachments/20091127/db3146fb/attachment.html From pmorton at lmi.net Mon Nov 30 00:58:04 2009 From: pmorton at lmi.net (Phil Morton) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:58:04 -0800 Subject: [Bfbc-talk] Fwd: [Berkeley] Berkeley Marina Bay Trail funding opportunity 12/03/09 References: <20091127173637.F2B412A19@brasco.dreamhost.com> Message-ID: <5966206F-323F-4500-BEE5-72293837325A@lmi.net> > From: jamesmcvaney at yahoo.com > Date: November 27, 2009 9:36:37 AM PST > To: pmorton at lmi.net > Subject: [Berkeley] Berkeley Marina Bay Trail funding opportunity > 12/03/09 > > We have not communicated before. However, here is some information I > received about funding for the 1st segment of the Berkeley Marina's > Bay Trail. I wanted to make sure you knew about it, and encourage > you (or the appropriate person in your organization) to speak out at > the Board meeting supporting the Bay Trail in the Berkeley Marina. > Opportunities like this are rare. The below referenced meeting is on > 12/03/09 at 3:30 pm at > ACTIA Board room > 1333 Broadway, Suite 300 > Oakland > > Last week the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the Alameda > County Congestion Management Authority (CMA) approved a > recommendation on 2010 STIP funding to the CMA Board to support the > Berkeley Bay Trail Project with $1,928,000 in FY 10-11. The Board > will consider the item on 12/3. > > > ~James McVaney > 510.374-9056