Council Approves Bikeways Plan

You can find more details about the Bicentennial Bikeways Master Plan here.
Council OKs 100 miles of bike paths
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:53 AM
The Columbus City Council approved a plan last night that will add miles of bike lanes along city streets, create dozens of new trails and add racks and a Downtown changing [...]

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Bike the C-Bus, Ride with the Mayor

Get a little exercise, a tour of the city, and say “hi” to Mayor Mike. What’s not to love?
All of the 2-wheeled goodness goes down on August 23rd.
http://www.bikethecbus.com/
The Long Street Tour’s “Bike the C-Bus” is a fun way to get fit and check out a few of the neighborhoods in and around Columbus, while [...]

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Completing the cycle : Two-wheel transit on the rise

Completing the cycle
The Alive
By Chris DeVille
May 22, 2008
Columbus residents have plenty of reasons to get on a bike. The city has been promoting its Commit To Be Fit initiative for years. Environmental consciousness is on the rise. So are gas prices. In a car-dominated city, alternative modes of transportation are on the brain.
Last year the [...]

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ETC Pedicabs provides new transit option Downtown

Pedal pushers
The Alive
By Brittany Kress
May 22, 2008
Cycling through High Street traffic while pulling two adults in a carriage on wheels isn’t as easy as it sounds. Oh, right. It doesn’t sound easy.
But a month into business for Columbus’ startup foot-powered pedicab service, people are into it, with drivers excited about getting paid to get fit [...]

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Bicentennial Bikeways Master Plan Details

In case you didn’t want to look through the entire 288-page Bicentennial Bikeways Master Plan on your own, I thought it could be useful to hit some highlights. I think the maps are the most fun, so we’ll start with those.
Regional Map (left) and Downtown Map (right)

(click on maps to expand)
There are 540 miles [...]

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Bicycle Boulevards Part Of Path Plan

NBC4 has a video and article about the growing importance of bicycling and Columbus’ plans for improved bicycle facilities. This follows up nicely on The Other Paper story that we covered here.
Bicycle Boulevards Part Of Path Plan
Monday, May 12, 2008 - 01:32 PM Updated: 02:57 PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus’ Mayor Mike Coleman wants to [...]

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Can Columbus Become a Cycling City?

Well, not in a week, but I optimistically think the answer is, “Yes.” In my opinion, the best way to institutionalize planning for bicycles and pedestrians may be to implement a Complete Streets policy.  As noted in the story below this one, multi-modal transportation planning is looking more feasible than ever before in Ohio.
Cycling city?
Bicyclists [...]

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Bike Give-Away

I first saw this at Consider Biking (hat tip to Meredith), but I thought it would be appropriate to share this news here.  While many of the readers on Consider Biking are - not surprisingly - bikers or soon-to-be bikers, many of the Xing Columbus readers are probably interested in bikes, but not buying one [...]

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Bike Rental and Sharing

We previously mentioned the bike sharing program at OSU this week.  Here is a video about it, posted from the Lantern website.  (This was not originally posted on the Lantern page when the article first came out.)  As I said in the comments before, you need valid rec sports membership.  (Students enrolled in classes automatically [...]

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Help count walkers and bikers May 7th

Edited to fix the date.  This is not next week, it is 2 weeks away, May 7th.  Whoops!
Just passing this along.
Volunteers needed - MORPC Pedestrian and Bicycle Traffic Counts – May 7.
To better understand pedestrian and bicycle traffic trends in the region, and to address the lack of consistent data about these modes of travel, [...]

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