Safe & Healthy Streets

Illustration & design courtesy of Justin A. Klein, www.SketchCandy.com

Celebrate the bicycle with a series of bike related events in Glendale! Including history rides and documentary screenings, guest speakers Gil Garcetti and Charlie Gandy, Bike to Work Day energy stations and a ride in the new bike lanes on Foothill (with more to come), all events are FREE and open to the public.

For the full calendar listing of Bike Month activities, go to http://la-bike.org/glendale/bikemonth/  Download the Bike Month flyer here.

Glendale Bike Month is a collaboration of the L.A. County Bicycle Coalition, Glendale Community Services and Parks, Glendale Public Library, the Glendale Historical Society, Glendale Traffic and Transportation, the Glendale Transportation Management Associates, The CV Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition, and the CV Town Council.

Update April 28, 2010

Glendale Bike Month Proclamation

L to R: Stirdivant, Gilkerson, Bogart, Nilsson, Friedman, Carter

Mayor Ara Najarian declared May 2010 as Bike Month in Glendale at the City Council meeting on April 27, 2010. Council Member Laura Friedman presented Safe & Healthy Streets team members Colin Bogart, Marc Stirdivant, Kevin Carter, Mike Nilsson, and Sgt. John Gilkerson with the official proclamation. You can watch video of the presentation by clicking here (starts at 4 minutes, 20 seconds). We’re very excited about this official proclamation! Bike Month starts this Saturday, May 1 with the Historic Neighborhoods of Glendale bike ride. For details about all Bike Month activities, click here.

Glendale Visits Berkeley

Glendale City Staff, Safe & Healthy Streets Grant Coordinator Colin Bogart, and Council Member Laura Friedman visited Berkeley, California on April 22 & 23, 2010. The site visit which was paid with funds from the PLACE Grant: Safe & Healthy Streets project, included a bike tour with the City of Berkeley’s bicycle and pedestrian planner Eric Anderson, a walking tour with Wendy Alfsen of California Walks and Jill Cooper of UC Berkeley’s SafeTREC, a meeting with Berkeley Police Lt. Eric Upson, and a meeting with Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates.

The site visit was an opportunity for the Glendale delegation to see Berkeley’s bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure which included Bicycle Boulevards, wayfinding signage, sharrows, bike lanes, a bike/pedestrian bridge over Interstate 80, and bike parking facilities ranging from racks and lockers to a new bike station being constructed on Shattuck near the main BART station. The walking tour included a visit to the most dangerous intersection in Berkeley (for pedestrians) as well as a popular pedestrian refuge, pedestrian wayfinding signage, and transit stops. The ultimate goal is to consider how and where the amenities of Berkeley might be implemented in Glendale.

We’d like to thank the City Staff and Mayor of Berkeley as well as Wendy Alfsen and Jill Cooper for welcoming and taking good care of our Glendale delegation.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the Maple Street tree planting on April 10! Thirty-two volunteers helped shovel dirt and give the new trees some love. The staff from Glendale Public Works Maintenance Services were great and did all the heavy lifting!

To read the Glendale News-Press article click here and to see their blog photos click here. For additional photos of the tree planting, click here.

Bike Month is Coming!

May is National Bike Month and the Safe & Healthy Streets Team is working on a full month of events including bike rides, Bike to Work Day (May 20), documentary screenings, guest speakers, and more. Stay tuned for details soon!

Bicyclist and Pedestrian Survey

The Glendale Bicyclist and Pedestrian Survey is still active online and we’re still looking for more people to complete it. If you haven’t completed the survey already, please do it today. If you’ve already taken the survey, please forward the survey link to your friends, co-workers, neighbors, etc. We want people who walk or ride a bike as well as those who don’t walk or bike to complete the survey. Anyone who lives, works, goes to school, or visits Glendale can complete the survey. Here’s the link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GlendaleBikePedSurvey

Thank you!