[CMI-CM] NOTE, IMPORTANT ITEM ! (Fwd: Join the National Bike Count!)

[ChampaignCountyBikes.org]

Champaign-Urbana bicyclists!*
THIS IS IMPORTANT!*

If you read the CCB email list because you care about bikes...
If you ride Critical Mass because you want people to know you ride...
If you wish there were recreational bike routes (eg. a Lincoln trail route
marked)...
if you live in town and want more bicycle infrastructure...
*you should help with the bike count!
*
*Champaign County Bikes believes this is VERY important!*

We must establish some data to show city and county officials how many of us
there really are out there riding our bikes every day!

We have to show them that every day is BIKE TO WORK DAY for so many of us.
We need to establish bike counts so that we can prove that adding
infrastructure will get more of our neighbors on bikes.
We need to make everyone aware that $750,000 over the next ten years is a
pitifully small sum for bike infrastructure (one leg of the intersection of
First and Windsor is receiving $1.3 million in upgrades).

Now is the chance to count but we need YOUR HELP!
With proper training (collecting viable data is more complex than you may
think) we will be able to conduct accurate counts that the planners can use
to make Champaign-Urbana-Savoy a more livable community for EVERYONE!

PLEASE note the dates and times and do your best to support this effort.

Thank you!
Rick Langlois
Chairman, ChampaignCountyBikes
217-898-2587

*-= Please Read On =-
*

*One of the greatest challenges facing the bicycle and pedestrian field is
the lack of documentation on usage and demand. Without accurate and
consistent demand and usage figures, it is difficult to measure the positive
benefits of investments in these modes, especially when compared to the
other transportation modes such as the private automobile.  *National Bike
Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project to be found at:
http://bikepeddocumentation.org/


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Cynthia Hoyle <choyle at cumtd.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Subject: Join the National Bike Count!

Greetings Everyone:

As part of a national effort to develop a data base on bicycling the
National Bicycle and Pedestrian Project is encouraging participation in a
national count.  The National Count/Survey days for 2009 are during the week
of September 7, 2009.

   - Tuesday, September 8 through Thursday, September 10
   - Saturday, September 12 through Sunday, September 13

The City of Champaign, the U of I, CUMTD, and C-U SRTS Project are
organizing a bicycle count for our community and we need your help!  We are
going to conduct counts on:

*September 9th from 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m.  *

We will be offering two training sessions for volunteer counters as follows:

*September 1st, 6-7 p.m. Champaign Public Library room 215
September 2nd, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Urbana Free Library downstairs auditorium*

The more volunteers we have the more intersections we can count and we would
like to count around some schools if we have enough volunteers.  If you
would like to volunteer to help with this effort please contact:

Morgan Johnston at mbjohnst at uillinois.edu

If you have questions feel free to contact me.  I am providing some
information from the NBPP website below along with a link if you want to
check it out.

*Cynthia Hoyle, AICP
Transportation Planning Consultant
Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District
1101 E. University Ave.
Urbana, IL  61801-2009
217-278-9059*

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