Do you have bikes and/or bike helmets, in good shape, that your kids have long outgrown? Are they taking up space in your garage or basement?
Problem Solved! Donate them to Fairfax Elementary School in Cleveland Heights and help kids who are just learning to ride and do not have a bicycle of their own. Read More
One of the new bike racks in Coventry Village
A few days ago, the Coventry Special Improvement District (SID) installed two new bike racks on Coventry. This project started when Ian Hoffman of the Heights Bicycle Coalition made a presentation to the Coventry SID on the benefits of having bike racks to encourage bicyclists to come to the business district. Ian also introduced the SID to Rustbelt Welding, specialty welders, who gave the SID a proposal. The Coventry SID certainly deserves credit for making this investment which adds to the district’s cachet.
Schools in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District were invited to participate in the inaugural National Bike to School Day on Wednesday, May 9 – a beautiful day for walking or biking to school! Many joined in the fun.
At Gearity Professional Development School in University Heights, students filled both bike racks. Many attached their bikes with new locks. In addition to the students, parents rode home and back later to pick up their kids. Aided by parents, Physical Education Teacher Fiona Kuntz organized a Bike Rodeo that involved 30 kids in perfecting bicycling skills. Both the students and the parents were so enthused that they want to do more. So Gearity School it is off and riding!
Ready to ride at the Gearity Bike Rodeo.
Enjoy free bicycle events, open to all, in May. You can celebrate Bike Month every day by jumping on your bike and riding for your trips around town. Here’s more:
Wednesday, May 9, Bike or Walk to School Day, in Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools.
Saturday, May 12, Bike Tour of Historic Districts. 10 a.m. to noon, begins with talk on architectural features and styles before a group bicycle ride through five historic districts and an historic site in Cleveland Heights. Starts and ends at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2747 Fairmount Boulevard. Sponsored by Heights Bicycle Coalition and Cleveland Heights Historical Society. To pre-register, call the Cleveland Heights Planning Department, 216-291-4878. Rain date: Saturday, May 26.
May 14-18, Bike to Work Week. Just do it!
Wednesday, May 16, Ride of Silence. Assemble at 5:45 p.m., Whole Foods Market, University Heights. 6:10 p.m., start group ride to University Circle ceremony honoring bicyclists who died while riding.
Friday, May 18, Bike to Work Day. 6:30-9:30 a.m., stop by a coffee station at the busiest bike route in Northeast Ohio, the intersection of Edgehill and Overlook Roads in Cleveland Heights. Free coffee and edibles for bicyclists. Thanks to Phoenix Coffee, Heights Bicycle Coalition and more.
Here’s a link to Bike Month events in Greater Cleveland: http://bikecleveland.org/
The first annual meeting was held on May 3.
Nineteen people attended. Brandon Henneman welcomed the group and facilitated the election of directors and officers.
Mary Dunbar presented the Year in Review - a review of the past year’s accomplishments and goals for the coming year.
Jacob VanSickle, Executive Director of Bike Cleveland, discussed the history, goals and activities of the organization.
These include:
Bike Cleveland is also working to engage all cyclists, especially those that use a bike for transportation out of necessity.
HBC Officers and Directors:
Mary Dunbar, President
Joy Henderson, Vice President, Programs
Brandon Henneman, Vice President, Volunteers
Greta De Meyer, Vice President, Membership
Sarah O’Keeffe, Treasurer
Interim Secretary, Joy Henderson
Directors: Rob Heinen, Ian Hoffman, Deidre McPherson and Deborah Riemann
May 3, 7 pm, Lee Road Library
May is Bike Month! Please join us for the first HBC Annual Meeting. The agenda will include:
- Guest speaker Jacob VanSickle, Executive Director of Bike Cleveland, the area’s bike advocacy organization
- Update on work to improve bicycle connectivity between the Heights and University Circle
- HBC project updates
- Opportunities for involvement
- Election of HBC officers and directors
Proposed Slate:
President: Mary Dunbar
Vice President, Programs: Joy Henderson
Vice President, Volunteers: Brandon Henneman
Vice President, Membership: Greta De Meyer
Treasurer: Sarah O’Keeffe
Secretary: YOUR NAME HERE
Directors: Rob Heinen, Ian Hoffman, Deidre McPherson, and Deborah Riemann
The Circle-Heights Bicycle Network & Missing Links study is well under way, with the first round of public input meetings held on April 17 and 18 at locations in Cleveland Heights and University Circle. People attending those meetings had an opportunity to provide their input to the plans developed so far for improved bicycle, transit and pedestrian connectivity between the Heights and University Circle. In addition to commenting on the plans, those attending the meetings had the opportunity to take a survey to provide additional input.
If you were unable to attend one of the meetings, we still want your input! That’s why the study group has commissioned an online survey. Please take the survey and give us your thoughts. The survey will be live until mid-May. Here’s the link:
An article in the April 18, 2012 Christian Science Monitor explains why bicycling is good for everyone, including motorists:
As University Circle fills up with new construction and new jobs, parking spaces for cars are expected to be in short supply. To ease the pinch, University Circle institutions would like to persuade more people to use alternative modes of transportation to come and go.
Planning to improve bicycle, pedestrian and bus routes is under way, but for the best plans, your input is needed. Come to one of two public input meetings sponsored by the Circle-Heights Bicycle Network and Missing Links study group to review these initial plans and react. The first meeting will be at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17, at the Cleveland Heights Recreation Center, 1 Monticello Boulevard, Cleveland Heights. If you can’t attend that meeting, come to a second meeting which is being held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 18, at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval in University Circle.
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