NSCC and Bicycles

Nashville State has a perfect location for the campus to become “Bicycle Friendly”.

1. It is on the Music City Bikeway.
2. It has a greenway that runs through it.
3. All of its 10,000 students, faculty, and staff get to campus by some means of transportation.
4. The college teaches architectural design courses and emphasizes LEED principles. (Leadership in Engineering and Environmental Design)
5. One class this Spring designed a “bike-friendly campus” plan for NSCC.
6. The obesity rate in Nashville is very high.
7. The college should be encouraging active transportation. It is cheaper in a lot ways than everyone driving cars.

Check out The League of American Bicyclists Bicycle Friendly University program.

Strategies to promoting bicycling.

Check out this bike share program: On Bike Share

“Bike share is quickly growing in popularity as a convenient, cost-effective, sustainable approach to alternative transportation.”

Bicycle transportation on college campuses.

“The use of bicycle on campus is greatly encouraged as a best way of daily transportation…” Nashville, TN is now a “Bicycle Friendly City” by the League of American Bicyclists.

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A winter bike commute in NYC

Check out this winter bike commute in New York City.  Pretty awesome.

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Nashville State Community College and Bicycles

The college has a 30-year-old bicycle parking policy that says no bikes in the middle part of the campus. Is that bike friendly? It certainly does not encourage sustainable transportation or healthy lifestyle. The bike racks are in the parking lot and one is next to portable classrooms. That certainly does not encourage faculty, staff or students to use bicycles as transportation.

This is what was on my bike when I parked my bike under cover on a rainy day. The bike was not in anyone’s way. The Peg Studio does not have a bike parking rack. The correct location would be the Student Services Building parking lot.

Come to the Mayfield Library and check out our “Bicycles as Transportation” exhibit.

Jan/Feb 2012

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Build bike lanes and they will ride

Check out this articles about bike commuting.

http://www.good.is/posts/if-you-build-bike-lanes-they-will-ride?utm_campaign=goodtweet&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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Bike share program

Read what the University of Massachusetts – Amherst:

http://www.umass.edu/livesustainably/projects/bike-sharing-program

It’s through their Campus Sustainability Initiative.

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Recycled cardboard bicycle

<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/37584656″>Izhar cardboard bike project</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user4499227″>Giora Kariv</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p>

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Bicycle safety education

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A new app to share bicycles!

Social Bicycles, lets you find a bike, reserve it, walk to it, unlock it, and ride it to your destination, then return it to and bicycle rack.Bicycle and apps

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SheRides Cycling Blog

About SheRides Cycling.

For women who ride bicycles.

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Moving in Harmony

Moving in Harmony is an educational campaign to increase safety for all users of the road in Nashville. Mayor Karl Dean announced the program today at Riverfront Station as part of the unveiling of the Music City Bikeway.

•  Moving in Harmony is an advertising and marketing campaign to address ways for motorists to drive safely on Nashville streets when sharing space with pedestrians and cyclists, while additionally educating cyclists and pedestrians on adhering to road rules ensuring their own safety.

• Over the past 10 years, Nashville has added 200 miles of sidewalks, totaling close to 1,000 miles of sidewalks citywide. Additionally, the city has 133 combined miles of bike lanes and shared routes.

•  Moving in Harmony is supported through Nashville’s Communities Putting Prevention to Work Grant, which is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services in partnership with the Metro Public Health Department.

•  More information is at http://www.nashvitality.org/movinginharmony.

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