Bike Decatur and City Put $1000 Towards Bike Rack Installation

Decatur Metro | April 21, 2011

Decatur City Commissioner and Bicycle South owner Fred Boykin sends this along…

Bike Decatur members presented a check for $500.00 to Mayor Floyd at the April 18th City Commission meeting as their matching contribution to provide bicycle parking racks in downtown Decatur. The City agreed to match the amount so $1,000.00 will be spent on parking racks at locations scouted out by the cyclists. Bike Decatur secured the $500.00 from a grant from Georgia Bikes!, the statewide bicycle advocacy orgainzation. The funds come from a $385,000.00, 3 year grant that Georgia Bikes received from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety who administers the tag fees received from the sale of Share The Road license tags.

Bike Decatur spokesman, Henry Slack, presented the check to the Mayor and other members also thanked the City for its efforts to make Decatur more bike friendly.

Bike Decatur members are also working with the City’s Active Living Division to develop a bicycle suitability map for Decatur and the plan is to have a draft map available for local cyclists to test ride and make comments on over the summer.

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7 Responses to “Bike Decatur and City Put $1000 Towards Bike Rack Installation”

  1. Craig1491 says:
    April 21, 2011 at 9:52 am

    Yay!

  2. Thinking Inside the Box says:
    April 21, 2011 at 10:56 am

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  3. TOK says:
    April 21, 2011 at 11:10 am

    So how many bike racks (and how big) will $1000 get you? And how will the locations be determined? Maybe somebody from the city should go around a few times during the week (maybe a weekday afternoon, a Friday might, and a Saturday afternoon) and see what places around Decatur have lots of bikes chained up to stop signs and other non-bikeracks. I’d like to see one installed near Kavarna myself.

    • Decatur Metro says:
      April 21, 2011 at 11:53 am

      The price of a two-bike bike rack installed thru SOPO is $95 for the first and $85 for each additional. But I would guessing the city could get a deal of some sort.

      • TOK says:
        April 21, 2011 at 12:52 pm

        Thanks. OK, so with even a modest deal on the price, that would be about 13 2-bike bike racks. Not too bad.

        • Bobby says:
          April 21, 2011 at 1:16 pm

          You could shoot for twice as many by soliciting another round of matching funds in coordination with site selection (e.g. $40 nominations).

  4. Tom L says:
    April 21, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    Photo credit to Mike Gerke. Nice.