Presentation given on June 10, 2015 at the Indian River County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) meeting, where League of American Bicyclists Vice President Bill Nesper presented the county's Bicycle Friendly Community (bronze) award via Skype.
Bike Facility Design and Creating an All Ages and Abilites Networkbikeed
Siskiyou Velo, a bike club in Southern Oregon, is advocating local governments in the region to integrate bike facilities suitable for all ages and abilities into their transportation system plans. The impetus for the effort comes from a recent publication by the National Association of City Transportation Officials entitled "Designing for All Ages and Abilities."
Bike Facility Design and Creating an All Ages and Abilites Networkbikeed
Medford, a metropolitan city in Southern Oregon, is updating its transportation system plan (TSP). Under Oregon's Transportation Planning Rule (OAR 660-12), the City is required to provide a "safe and convenient" transportation network for all modes of travel: motor vehicles, pedestrians and people riding bicycles. The presentation focuses on why an "all ages and abilities" approach to the development of a bicycle network is essential to achieving the requirements of Oregon law and thus provide a "safe and convenient" network for bicycles.
Bike Facility Design and Creating an All Ages and Abilites Networkbikeed
Siskiyou Velo, a bike club in Southern Oregon, is advocating local governments in the region to integrate bike facilities suitable for all ages and abilities into their transportation system plans. The impetus for the effort comes from a recent publication by the National Association of City Transportation Officials entitled "Designing for All Ages and Abilities."
Bike Facility Design and Creating an All Ages and Abilites Networkbikeed
Medford, a metropolitan city in Southern Oregon, is updating its transportation system plan (TSP). Under Oregon's Transportation Planning Rule (OAR 660-12), the City is required to provide a "safe and convenient" transportation network for all modes of travel: motor vehicles, pedestrians and people riding bicycles. The presentation focuses on why an "all ages and abilities" approach to the development of a bicycle network is essential to achieving the requirements of Oregon law and thus provide a "safe and convenient" network for bicycles.
EFFECT OF EXCESS CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR IN THE BRAINsirzeek
THE SIDE EFFECT OF TAKING EXCESS SUGAR, Chronic consumption of added sugar reduces brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).
Leads to insulin resistance, which leads to Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
Once that happens, your brain and body are in a destructive cycle that’s difficult if not impossible to reverse.
Earth bag construction presentation-ilonkamarselis_11.6.2015ilonka marselis
A presentation on earth-bag construction along the lines of a practical workshop on building an earth-bag dome. This presentation includes some theoretical information on earth-bag building, some example projects, and guides you step by step through the process of building, plastering and painting an earthbag doem
A clean and simple flipbook informing and educating the readers about the risks involved with using social media, as well as the priceless potential of staying connected online.
Slide's for the Dublin Cycling Campaign presentation on how we can build Dublin's cycling network. The presentation answers the following questions:
Why do we need to build a connected cycle network in Dublin?
What is the current process for building new cycle infrastructure in Dublin?
How long will it take to build Dublin’s cycle network at the current rate?
How can we can we speed the process of delivering new cycle routes?
The presentation was created by Kevin Baker. Kevin is an active member of Dublin Cycling Campaign’s infrastructure working group, working on projects like the Fitzwilliam Cycle Route and the interim Liffey Cycle Route. He also previously led Dublin Cycling Campaign’s response to the proposals for 200km of cycle route as part of the National Transport Authority’s BusConnects Core Bus Corridors programme.
EFFECT OF EXCESS CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR IN THE BRAINsirzeek
THE SIDE EFFECT OF TAKING EXCESS SUGAR, Chronic consumption of added sugar reduces brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).
Leads to insulin resistance, which leads to Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
Once that happens, your brain and body are in a destructive cycle that’s difficult if not impossible to reverse.
Earth bag construction presentation-ilonkamarselis_11.6.2015ilonka marselis
A presentation on earth-bag construction along the lines of a practical workshop on building an earth-bag dome. This presentation includes some theoretical information on earth-bag building, some example projects, and guides you step by step through the process of building, plastering and painting an earthbag doem
A clean and simple flipbook informing and educating the readers about the risks involved with using social media, as well as the priceless potential of staying connected online.
Slide's for the Dublin Cycling Campaign presentation on how we can build Dublin's cycling network. The presentation answers the following questions:
Why do we need to build a connected cycle network in Dublin?
What is the current process for building new cycle infrastructure in Dublin?
How long will it take to build Dublin’s cycle network at the current rate?
How can we can we speed the process of delivering new cycle routes?
The presentation was created by Kevin Baker. Kevin is an active member of Dublin Cycling Campaign’s infrastructure working group, working on projects like the Fitzwilliam Cycle Route and the interim Liffey Cycle Route. He also previously led Dublin Cycling Campaign’s response to the proposals for 200km of cycle route as part of the National Transport Authority’s BusConnects Core Bus Corridors programme.
Protected bike lanes have moved from foreign concept to best practice in U.S. design with remarkable speed (for the transportation world). This session will provide a fast paced overview of the spread of this innovation and the current state of the practice. Leaders of the Green Lane Project and our partners will cover the latest on designs, new research, best practices, analyze trends and share the best lessons from the Green Lane Project study tours.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to define and identify protected bike lanes.
Participants will access peer and professional guidance on how to build a protected bike lane.
Participants will state the pros and cons of building protected bike lanes.
Participants will identify sources for additional information on building protected bike lanes.
Presenter(s)
Presenter: Martha Roskowski PeopleForBikes
Co-Presenter: Linda Bailey NACTO
Co-Presenter: Dan Goodman Office of Human Environment, Livability Team, FHWA
Activating Your Active Tourism Potential
Towns, cities, states and provinces are making major efforts to establish themselves as active travel destinations with a strong sense of place and local character. This fast-moving, interactive workshop will feature examples from the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe on how to create great destinations, connect with agencies, and convert active travel's popularity into better biking and walking for locals.
Presenters:
Presenter: Jim Sayer Adventure Cycling Association
Intro to Clean Cities and MD/HD Fleet Electrification by Michael Graham Forth
Michael Graham, Director of Policy & Communications at Columbia-Willamette Clean Cities Coalition gave this presentation at Forth and BEF's PNW Utility EV Roundtable on April 20, 2023.
My presentation to the Victoria Regional Transit Commission on June 27, 2013, supporting options for transit priority that would preserve access for bikes along targeted corridors.
Woodward Corridor Neighborhood Bicycle Network - 2016 TAP AwardJustin Lyons
A summary of a recent grant application I wrote for the City of Ferndale and 5 other communities for a 17 mile bicycle route. The project was awarded over $200k in grant money and will be completed in late 2016.
Similar to Bicycle Friendly Community presentation to IRC MPO Board - June 2015 (20)
Working with data is a challenge for many organizations. Nonprofits in particular may need to collect and analyze sensitive, incomplete, and/or biased historical data about people. In this talk, Dr. Cori Faklaris of UNC Charlotte provides an overview of current AI capabilities and weaknesses to consider when integrating current AI technologies into the data workflow. The talk is organized around three takeaways: (1) For better or sometimes worse, AI provides you with “infinite interns.” (2) Give people permission & guardrails to learn what works with these “interns” and what doesn’t. (3) Create a roadmap for adding in more AI to assist nonprofit work, along with strategies for bias mitigation.
Combined Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) Vessel List.Christina Parmionova
The best available, up-to-date information on all fishing and related vessels that appear on the illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing vessel lists published by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and related organisations. The aim of the site is to improve the effectiveness of the original IUU lists as a tool for a wide variety of stakeholders to better understand and combat illegal fishing and broader fisheries crime.
To date, the following regional organisations maintain or share lists of vessels that have been found to carry out or support IUU fishing within their own or adjacent convention areas and/or species of competence:
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT)
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC)
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO)
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC)
South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO)
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO)
Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA)
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
The Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List merges all these sources into one list that provides a single reference point to identify whether a vessel is currently IUU listed. Vessels that have been IUU listed in the past and subsequently delisted (for example because of a change in ownership, or because the vessel is no longer in service) are also retained on the site, so that the site contains a full historic record of IUU listed fishing vessels.
Unlike the IUU lists published on individual RFMO websites, which may update vessel details infrequently or not at all, the Combined IUU Fishing Vessel List is kept up to date with the best available information regarding changes to vessel identity, flag state, ownership, location, and operations.
RFP for Reno's Community Assistance CenterThis Is Reno
Property appraisals completed in May for downtown Reno’s Community Assistance and Triage Centers (CAC) reveal that repairing the buildings to bring them back into service would cost an estimated $10.1 million—nearly four times the amount previously reported by city staff.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Donate to charity during this holiday seasonSERUDS INDIA
For people who have money and are philanthropic, there are infinite opportunities to gift a needy person or child a Merry Christmas. Even if you are living on a shoestring budget, you will be surprised at how much you can do.
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-to-donate-to-charity-during-this-holiday-season/
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About Potato, The scientific name of the plant is Solanum tuberosum (L).Christina Parmionova
The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world. Potatoes are tubers of the plant Solanum tuberosum, a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United States to southern Chile
Synopsis (short abstract) In December 2023, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 30 May as the International Day of Potato.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
Preliminary findings _OECD field visits to ten regions in the TSI EU mining r...OECDregions
Preliminary findings from OECD field visits for the project: Enhancing EU Mining Regional Ecosystems to Support the Green Transition and Secure Mineral Raw Materials Supply.
2. How Does the League of American Bicyclists (LAB)
Determine “Bicycle Friendliness”?
★ The Five “Es”
✴ Engineering - Quantity and Quality of Bicycle Facilities
✴ Evaluation & Planning - Proactive Bicycle Facility
Planning
✴ Education - Quantity and Quality of Community Safety
Education
✴ Encouragement - Encouraging People to Ride Bicycles
✴ Enforcement - Law Enforcement Support for Safe
Cycling
3. Why is it Important to Be a
Bicycle Friendly Community?
★ Make roads safer for everyone and reduce injuries/
fatalities due to bike crashes
★ Provide a way for people who do not have access
to a car to get to work, school and stores
★ Encourage a healthy lifestyle and reduce obesity
★ Reduce traffic congestion and free up parking
spaces
★ Make our community an even better place to live
5. What Grade Would You Give IRC on
Bicycle Friendliness?
A+, A, A-, B, C or D?
6. Historical Strengths and Weaknesses
★ Strengths
✴ Great support from FDOT - a nationwide leader in
its commitment to bicycle safety
✴ The MPO staff has implemented a world class
bicycle safety education program for children
✴ Some great plans have been developed (e.g., the
Greenway Plans)
✴ Bike racks on Go Line
7. Historical Strengths and Weaknesses
★ Weaknesses
✴ As of today, there are only 1.4 miles of designated
bike lanes (College Lane) on County roads (but
there are bike lanes on FDOT and City roads)
✴ Very little effort to encourage people to ride bicycles
✴ Very little safety education for adults
✴ Other than the Lagoon Greenway, virtually no multi-
use trails (although the Trans Florida Central
Railroad Trail has great potential)
8. Recent Accomplishments
★ Local bicycle club formed and grew to over 200 paid
members, offering 5 to 6 group rides weekly and
regular special events such as the New Rider Rides
and the Downtown Friday Fun Rides
★ Six community volunteers and one County employee
became credentialed cycling safety instructors (LCIs)
★ Community volunteers organized a bike festival (the
Hibiscus Ride) that attracted over 130 participants
with no crashes
★ Community members provided a set of written
recommendations for improving cycling safety as part
of the Bike/Ped Plan update
9. Recent Accomplishments (cont’d)
★ Two local businesses were designated as Bicycle
Friendly Businesses by the LAB
• Orchid Island Bikes & Kayaks (Gold)
• Sanford Law Firm (Bronze)
★ Community volunteers (with MPO staff support)
periodically staff a cycling safety booth at Downtown
Friday
10. Do We Truly Want to Be a Bicycle
Friendly Community?
11. Becoming a Bicycle Friendly
Community Will Require a Commitment
Within County Government Beyond the
MPO Staff
13. Recommendation #1:
Designate a High Level Person Within
County Government to Oversee the Bicycle
Friendly Initiative
★ Should be someone with the authority to effect change
★ Should be someone who will be proactive
★ Ideally, should be someone who rides a bicycle and
has a passion for making the community bicycle
friendly
14. Recommendation #2:
Sign and Designate Bike Lanes on all County Roads
with Shoulders that Could be Converted to Bike Lanes
15. Recommendation #2:
Sign and Designate all County Roads with
Shoulders that Could Qualify as Bike Lanes
★ Why?
• Will increase the likelihood that people on bicycles will
stay in the bike lane (as required under FL law)
• Will increase the likelihood that people on bicycles will
ride with the flow of traffic (as required under FL law)
• Will help alert motorists bicycles are permitted on the
road and may be present
• Will help motorists and people on bicycles understand
how to handle turns
• Will help people on bicycles be more comfortable
16. Recommendation #3:
Amend the IRC Code to Require That All
New and Repaved County Roads Be Built
to the Then Current FDOT Standards
★ Why?
• FDOT has extensive resources to develop state
of the art bike facility standards, no need for
IRC to “reinvent the wheel” especially given the
County’s limited resources.
• Currently, with respect to bike facilities in IRC,
most County roads are inferior to FDOT roads
(and to some COVB roads).
17. Recommendation #3:
Amend IRC Code to Adopt FDOT Standards
Example IRC Road - Indian River Boulevard (looking north
approaching 41st Street)
18. Recommendation #3:
Amend IRC Code to Adopt FDOT Standards
Example IRC Road - Indian River Boulevard (looking south
approaching 41st Street)
19. Recommendation #3:
Amend IRC Code to Adopt FDOT Standards
What should IRB (and 53rd St, 66 Ave, etc) look like?
Source: Federal
Highway
Administration -
Manual on Uniform
Traffic Control
Devices
20. Recommendation #3:
Amend IRC Code to Adopt FDOT Standards
“I just came back from a week in Vero Beach and
was reminded again about how dangerous the two
intersections on [the northern section] of Indian
River Boulevard are. I wrote a letter to both the
County Engineer and County Director of Public
Works when that section of IRB was about to be
repaved a few years ago. As an architect and
planner, I pointed out the obvious hazards and
asked that they incorporate shoulders, the cost of
which would have been minimal.”
Bob Joy, who owns a home in Grand
Harbor and frequently rides on Indian
River Boulevard
21. Recommendation #3:
Amend IRC Code to Adopt FDOT Standards
• What does the current code say?
(1) Locations. All projects shall install bikeways on all
arterial and collector routes as specified in the
adopted Indian River County Bikeway and Sidewalk
Plan. . . .
(2) Specifications. Bikeways shall conform to the
standards as stated in the county adopted "Bikeway
and Sidewalk Plan."
. . .
Section 952.15 (Bikeway system)
22. Recommendation #3:
Amend IRC Code to Adopt FDOT Standards
• Code terminology is out of date anyway - there is no
“Bikeway and Sidewalk Plan”
23. Recommendation #3:
Amend IRC Code to Adopt FDOT Standards
• A model may be Section 914.15(5) of the IRC Code which
provides that . . .
Bikeways. The project developer shall be responsible
for the provision of a bikeway(s) along the project site's
frontage on all rights-of-way or easements as
designated in the Indian River County Comprehensive
Bikeway and Sidewalk Plan.
(a) Specifications. All bikeways shall be constructed
in accordance with specifications found in the
Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)
Bicycle Facilities Planning and Design Manual
(most recent edition) . . . .(emphasis added)
24. Recommendation #4:
Partner with the Indian River Farms Water Control District
to Create a Countywide Network of Paved Multi-use Paths
Running Along Side the Existing Drainage Canal Network
★ Why?
✴ IRC currently lacks “connectivity” for people riding bicycles -
i.e., it is often difficult to safely travel the entire route to a
particular destination
✴ A network of off-road bike paths would reduce bike traffic on
roadways
✴ Many people who ride bikes have a strong preference for
riding on bike paths rather than the road
✴ A network of bike paths would provide a significant
recreational opportunity for local residents, including families
✴ A network of bike paths would provide a significant tourist
draw
26. Recommendation #4:
Establish Network of Paved Multi-use Paths
★ Example of Opportunity - Central county east-west
connectivity - Central Canal Route
28. Recommendation #4:
Establish Network of Paved Multi-use Paths
★ How significant is this opportunity?
✴ If we developed a full network of paths along all
major canals:
“Indian River County would put
Portland to shame."
Recent Comment by Bill Nesper, VP, Programs,
League of American Bicyclists, referring to
Portland, Oregon, considered by many to be
America's current "bicycle capital."