Comments on: Decatur Top 10 Bike Initiatives

By: pedicabber

pedicabber — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:02:09 +0000

Decatur Bikes next meeting is Feb 10th, 7pm, at the Corner Pub. YOU are encouraged to attend. And please go to the groups webpage and fill out the survey, and become a member.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:01:05 +0000

I’ve lived in the city, or on the fringe for almost 20 years. Decatur is fine for the advanced cyclist. The cyclist who would be comfortable riding down Clairmont at 5:30 pm. The cyclist who will go find the one place they can lock their bicycle, no matter how inconvenient it is.

We can’t forget about the casual riders and the people who would like to ride bikes, IF they had the facilities. As the manager of Bicycle South, I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve heard people comment about how they would like to ride, if….

I think this Top 10 list looks great. The bike lanes, signs, parking racks, and map will all help to encourage people to start riding their old bikes again or start riding period. Safe Routes to School and the map are going to help educate.

By: TOK

TOK — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:14:20 +0000

Signage: replace the current lame city slogan (“City of Homes, Schools and Places of Worship”) with the suggestion made in the past DM thread on this topic:

“Dykes on bikes, tykes on trikes.”

By: Ridgelandistan

Ridgelandistan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:57:31 +0000

There’s one little staple rack in front of Iberian Pig and one in front of Eddie’s none at the courthouse. Those together will handle 4 bikes. all told maybe all the racks around the square can handle 20 bikes tops. Not nearly enough. It’s actually very rare in good weather that I can find free rack space where I shop and dine.

By: DEM

DEM — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:07:05 +0000

Interesting. We have the opposite experience. I bike to the square with my 2 kids all the time and we’ve never once had trouble finding a spot at one of the racks.