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It's Bike to Work Week!
This week, OCTA is celebrating "Bike To Work" week. I've pasted in the details from their Bike To Work page, plus UC Irvine's events; also, scroll down for bicycle rallies.
Bike to Work Week is May 17 – 21, 2010
Get Healthy During Bike to Work Week.
Can you get healthy on your way to work? You can if you grab your bike instead of a drive-through latte. Get out of your car and get in the health lane for Bike to Work Week. You’ll stay fit and help improve our air quality, too.
Exercise isn’t the only reward you’ll get when you ride your bike to work. Pledge to bike to work and you’ll receive a $25 discount coupon to Jax Bicycle Center. You’ll also be entered to win great prizes in OCTA’s Bike to Work Week raffle. So get your bike and helmet and get ready to ride!
Pledge Now to Bike to Work
Submit your Bike to Work Pledge Formnow and get a chance to win fantastic prizes! The more participation by your fellow employees, the greater chance for your company to win the OCTA Corporate Challenge. Click the Prizes tab to see what you can win! read more→
UC Irvine launches ZotWheels bikeshare program
I know it's been awhile since I've posted a bicycling piece, so imagine my glee when I learned that UC Irvine is taking more steps towards transportation sustainability by launching a computerized bicycle sharing program, allowing students to "check out" bicycles for 3-hour periods, with a $40.00 annual pass. From the CityRyde blog:
The New York Times reports that the San Diego-based Collegiate Bicycle Company will launch ZotWheels, a fully automated self-service bike share program, this fall at the University of California Irvine.
UC Irvine approached Central Specialties Limited, a manufacturer of stroller venders, in May of 2008 about the possibility of modifying its vending components to meet the University’s desired bike share system specifications. The result: an intelligent third generation design that has already won an award for Innovation and Collaboration from the McHenry County (of Illinois) Economic Development Corporation’s Business Accelerator Program.
Four centrally located stations equipped with solar powered kiosks will be placed in heavily trafficked areas of the Irvine campus. Students, faculty, and staff will be able to apply online for membership, after which time they will receive a bike lock and membership card that grants them electronic access to the program’s bicycles. The bikes themselves will be cruiser style and painted to reflect the school’s colors.
UC Irvine students can sign up at Parking and Transportation's ZotWheels website and even view a real-time map of bicycle availability throughout the campus. The four stations are located at the Student Center, Langson Library, Physical Sciences, and the Science Library. Map shown after the break: read more→
Where can I park my bicycle at John Wayne Airport?
Submitted by Steven on 19 August, 2009 - 9:46am
"Where can I park my bicycle at your airport?" I asked the employee on John Wayne Airport's hotline. "Is there a bike rack somewhere?"
No one seemed to know the answer. It took 15 minutes for them to finally find an employee with some kind of answer (though I will give them credit for doing an awesome job hunting down the solution!).
Apparently, employees park their bicycles in the stairwells of the automobile parking structures at the airport. So, if you want to park at the airport, for free, why not consider bicycling there? Follow along the photographs with these 4 easy steps:
- Find an automobile parking structure.
- Find the stairwell (marked with a green staircase symbol).
- Find a place within the stairwell that has space for your bicycle.
- Lock your bicycle to the metal bars.
And that's it! I've done this several times and never had any trouble with anyone or had any missing or lost bicycles, and it sure beats trying to take OCTA's infrequent 76 line to and from the airport. read more→
How to survive the transit cuts: Get a folding bicycle!
OCTA's severe transit cuts have made traveling by bus much more unpredictable, spontaneous affairs, and since I need a bicycle to get to places the bus doesn't, I often wait at the bus stop and wonder if the next bus's bicycle racks, like this photo on line 43, will be full. I've been refused to board at least twice within a month because of this unfortunate scenario, and unfortunately, one bus can only carry two bicycles at a time (unless the bus driver generously lets you take your bicycle on board). What to do about it (besides resorting to driving)?
Solution: folding bicycle! read more→
