The ReCYCLEry Advisory Board met this evening and began setting up plans for a busy spring and summer!

Please note that Monday Classes for Mechanics resume on May 5th. Check back for specifics as the date approaches.

We are also scheduling BUB workdays in advance of new BUB Hub openings.

We are going to redesign the website from the bottom up and be looking for a few good folks willing to be regular contributors.

Finally, expect to see some fundraising activities, and possibly an art auction. Look out for the ReCYCLEry design contest for new merch, and then we'll tie it all together with a big bike block party.

Stay tuned and spread the word!

This post sourced from an email to the RTP_bike_ped list-serv and reposted with permission, 4/17/08

Bikes on Buses Answers From Triangle Transit

Greetings-

Back in March, this list had a short discussion on Triangle Transit's
policy on bring bikes onboard buses. Sean had a few questions I
could not answer directly, and I said I would do research and return to
the list with an answer. Below are Sean's questions, followed by my
answers.

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Patrick -How is it that a bike that is tied down to one of the
wheelchair positions can become a projectile? and, Have you tested the
3-bike rack on the new buses? Why do other municipalities allow bikes on
the bus? I would really like to know the answers to these questions,
because the lack of capacity for bikes is what caused me to stop using
the transit system.- Sean

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from the website, smartcommutechallenge.org:

The SmartCommute Challenge is an annual non-profit public service campaign that works to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality in the Triangle.

From April 15 through May 30, any employee or college student who commutes to work or campus in Wake, Durham, or Orange County can participate. To enter the Challenge, make your online pledge that at least once before May 30 you will carpool, vanpool, bike or walk, ride the bus, or telework (work from home).

Everyone who takes the Challenge will be entered into a drawing to win one of several prizes, including a free vacation for two!

You can take the pledge individually, or get your company to sign on collectively!

If you'd like to learn more about and offer input regarding Raleigh's Comprehensive Bicycle Plan, please visit www.greenways.com/raleighbike.html. There's a brief description here, and a link to a comment form.

The greenways site is the home of Greenways, Inc., a multidisciplinary environmental planning and landscape architectural firm that specializes in providing consulting services to government agencies, for-profit corporations and nonprofit organizations.

Greenways Inc. has done work across the country, but are currently involved in a good number of North Carolina projects, and worked with the Town of Carrboro as detailed below.

The Town of Carrboro Bicycle Transportation Plan
www.greenways.com/carrboro.html

It is naturally our wish that our guests bicycle to and from the ReCYCLEry, though it is to be expected a fair amount of automobile traffic is inevitable.

As our numbers increase, our current parking situation has become untenable and we request that in the future that nobody park on Daffodil Lane immediately outside of the ReCYCLEry gates. It creates a travel hazard for the residents up the hill and around the curve, not to mention all of our friends and participants.

Therefore we now request that those who must drive please park across South Greensboro Street from the lower end of Old Pittsboro Road. There is a vacant lot in front of the former factory. More details will follow in a future post and on our contact/directions page.

Thanks for your understanding and thanks for making the ReCYCLEry a better place!

The ReCYCLEry now has group pages on Facebook and Myspace. Please join up and feel free to contribute any relevant photos and messages! The groups will be whatever the community makes of them...

Facebook:
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9471439213

Myspace:
groups.myspace.com/reCYCLEry

Also, after you sign up for the 2008 SmartCommute Challenge, then you also add it to your events on Facebook.

You can now check out Blue Bikes from seven BUB Hubs, including the latest addition, Balanced Movement/ Balanced Physical Therapy (Directions and links below.) Please contact us if you are interested in hosting a BUB Hub and thanks to everyone in the community who already make the Blue Urban Bike program work!

Current BUB Hubs:

Skylight Exchange / Nightlight at 405 1/2 W. Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill

3 Cups coffee shop at 431 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill

Original article published in The Carrboro Citizen Front Page, 7/26/07

By: Jack Carley, Staff Writer (photos by Kirk Ross)

The ReCYCLEry, Carrboro’s nonprofit community bike workshop, is working to bring more bicycles to Carrboro roads. By expanding their bike loan program, called Blue Urban Bikes, or BUB, they hope to get people pushing bike pedals instead of gas pedals.

The Blue Urban Bikes program is the ReCYCLEry’s biggest push to promote bikes on Carrboro and Chapel Hill roads. For the annual price of ten dollars or two hours of volunteer work, anyone can become a BUB member and borrow the refurbished blue bikes for a day at a time, complete with two cargo baskets, lights, a lock and a helmet.

A Community Bicycle Loan Program

Blue Urban Bikes (BUB), a community bicycle loan program, is designed to provide a reliable source of clean, affordable and sustainable transportation. Our community is ideal for getting around on a bicycle -- when you think about the time it often takes to find a parking space, riding a bike simply takes less time and leaves you feeling strong, able and healthy. The BUB Fleet offers a transportation alternative to citizens so that they may play an active role in lessening the environmental footprint of our community.