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Like many avid cyclists, Rick Wurtz has his share of horror stories from the road.His closest call came as he pedaled along an open highway in Montana and a big rig rushed by within inches of his handlebars, passing so close that the truck's wake blew him off the road.There is little more terrifying to a cyclist than sitting astride 20 pounds of carbon fiber and aluminum when a motorist encased

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Both of these will be in the MPC large conference room (4th floor of theCity-County Building.) Please let me know if you plan to attend because space is limited. kelley.segars@knoxtrans.orgNov 12th, 2 - 3 p.m."The Power of 25: Advocacy Strategies for Creating LivableCommunities"Presented by Pete Lagerway, Senior Transportation Planner, Toole DesignGroupThis Webinar will articulate useful

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Tour de Lights is the Cool Ride of the month in December's issue of Bicycling magazine!Tour de LightsThe only time Santa and the Grinch are friends.Rolling up to the start, we're surrounded by a sea of Santa hats, helmets with reindeer antlers and bikes festooned with LED lights. A custom-built sleigh trailer holds Santa and a bag of gifts; one bike pulls a cart with sacks of coal for naughty

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Some good news for a rainy month. Recent data shows that bike commuting is up nationally, as well as in Knoxville!In 2000, the Census Bureau estimated that 198 workers commuted by bicycle in Knoxville, a 0.25 percent share of the total local workforce. By 2008, it is estimated that the number of bicycle commuters doubled to 416, or 0.5 percent of all work commuters.Nationally, 0.55% of American

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We did a survey of Neighborhood Bike Ride participants. The results were pretty interesting. Check them out herehttp://www.knoxtrans.org/bikeride/09/survey_results.pdfA common thread was that people would like more of these rides. The Bicycle Program just isn't equipped to do that. We tried, you may recall, a monthly summer ride series for two years, but were only getting between 30 - 50 people

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As I was biking over to UT for a meeting this morning, there was a bicyclist behind me. Then suddenly along Clinch, there were 5 of us biking in a row! A bike train, here in Knoxville. I was so proud. Plus, four of us were wearing helmets! Unfortunately, I seemed to be the only one that obeyed all the stop signs and traffic signals.How can we get the word out to bicyclists that the traffic laws

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(Kelley's note: please also report things to the appropriate authority so they will be fixed--don't just write about it on a blog or in this database! We have a list of phone numbers to call about dogs, potholes and aggressive motorists)http://www.knoxtrans.org/plans/bikeprog/otr_help.pdfRoadGuardian.com One way to make cycling safer is to know where the danger points and trouble spots are

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More photos from the fabulous NBR at http://www.knoxtrans.org/bikeride/index.htm We were so glad the rain held off and we had nearly 200 people!And remember to mark Wed, Dec 16, 7 p.m. on your calendar for the 3rd annual Tour de Lights. More info to come, but as always we will be awarding prizes for the most decorated person, bicycle, and helmet!Thanks to Kat Campbell for the photos!

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The City of Knoxville will host a public meeting to review preliminary plans for a Downtown North Streetscape Plan. The meeting will be held at St John's Lutheran Church- corner of Broadway and 5th Ave. on Thursday evening September 24th starting at 6pm.Hedstrom Design group has been working with the city and a 20 person steering committee to kick off this design process that will provide at

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Sorry for the lack of blogging. Facebook is getting more and more attention so I hope you're checking us out there too. The Bicycle Advisory Committee task forces on safety/classes, and on performance measures met recently. I'll be writing up some minutes from those meetings soon. I attended a conference last week on behalf of Smart Trips and got some great ideas for marketing/outreach, for the

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Aug 304 p.m.James Agee ParkPresented by Tennessee Valley Bicycles and Knox Revolution

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Pre-order your Share the Road specialty license plate! We need about 800 more people to sign up to make this a reality. The revenue from the license plates will help support statewide bicycle advocacy. There's an advocacy group called Bike Walk Tennessee (www.BikeWalkTN.org) that is getting started. I'll post more info as things progress. But meanwhile, show your support for bicycling by

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The marketing/programs committee met yesterday. We're looking for your ideas on how to get the word out to bicyclists AND motorists about the rights and responsibilities of bicyclists on the roads. Share your suggestions here, or come to the next meeting (I'll post the meeting on here.)Contest alert!!!! The Bicycle Program needs a logo, don't you think? Wouldn't you like to be the lucky one to

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We have the opportunity to host Knoxville's first-ever valet bike parking station at Boomsday (Sunday, Sept 6) this year. But we need help! Festivities start at 1 p.m. so we need at least 15 people to cover all the shifts from noon til 11 p.m. If you can help, please email me at kelley.segars@knoxtrans.orgThanks!

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This compact tutorial, available as a 46-page booklet and this online version, will increase your safety and confidence while bicycling on any road, whether you are a beginner or an expert. You'll have more fun and feel better about riding, be it for pleasure, fitness or transportation. See below for information about obtaining copies of the printed version.This manual teaches safe bicycling

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NPR story this morning:"While cycling as a sport is extremely popular in Spain, hardly anyone there uses a bicycle to commute, run errands or just to have fun."Is it wrong for me to be excited that we are better than at least one country in Europe?By the way, I am reading Pedaling Revolution and highly recommend it!"Jeff Mapes explores the growing urban bike culture that is changing the look and

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The Bicycle Plan implementation is moving forward. The performance measures committee met and developed a lot of options for how we can measure success (or lack of), and we will meet again to decide which are things we can track on a regular basis, and what our goal/targets should be. One example is bike counts. What kind of increase should we expect in those numbers over the next few years? I'll

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We conduct bicycle/pedestrian counts twice a year (spring and fall) on weekdays, but I would like to do some Saturday counts in August (before UT football starts!). They would be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the corner of Gay/Summit Hill and Clinch/Henley. I'm looking for volunteers. If I get enough people, it could be one-hour shifts, and it would be great to have two people at each location so you

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More intersection testing today. Discovered that the loops at World's Fair Park/Jackson/Broadway were cut during resurfacing and haven't been fixed yet. And at 5th and Broadway, there is video detection, which is normally great news for bicyclists, but in this case, the video wasn't set up to detect the rightmost lane westbound (or the center lane eastbound, but that shouldn't affect bicyclists).

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This is my first day in the office after a long weekend, so here's the update for last week. I spent about 3 hours with a City of Knoxville Traffic Signal Engineer on Wed testing just 3 1/2 intersections to make sure bicycles would trigger a green light. Clinch/Henley had to be adjusted a little since some recent resurfacing and construction work (you have to be in the center of the lane). Clinch

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Sorry I didn't get an update done last week--I had to take Lily to the doctor. Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend. Lily and I watched the start of the Freedom Thighs bike ride. We can't wait to participate next year! Great job, Monika.So, last week, I met with the UT Outdoors Program and Sustainability Coordinator about a bike event for Tues, Sept 1st. There will be rides, bike repair, and

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June 26, 2009This week I have been hearing from people wanting to help with bike plan implementation—which is terrific. I’m also trying to set up meetings for just that. The challenge is coordinating so many schedules. I’ll post the meeting dates once they are set so anyone can attend. The topics for this round of meetings will be marketing/promotion of bicycling; bike safety classes; programs/

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Great way to slow down bicyclists who go too fast on the greenways!>>>> from the London Telegraph, June 18, 2009Cyclists were encouraged to slow down thanks to this crater-sized "hole" in the middle of a towpath. But the hole is an optical illusion, a three-dimensional drawing of a canyon, in an attempt to make careless cyclists hit the brakes rather than ride dangerously and ignore

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Cascade Bicycle Club Launches Cycling Safety Web SiteA new cycling safety web site, Bikewise, was launched this June by Cascade Bicycle Club. Bikewise provides a venue for cyclists to track and report crashes, hazards and thefts in order to maintain and improve cyclists' safety on the road. Currently, the user-generated content on Bikewise is focused on the greater Puget Sound area, but cyclists

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Friends,it's that time of the year. it is time to dig out your most patriotic outfit, get some red white and blue tinsel for your bike, and come ride your bike through the streets of Knoxville in style. let's show people how real patriots get around town with none of that gasoline money going to those oil-rich yet democracy-deficient countries around the world. we've got people power up in here,

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