Thread started by rev106 at 11.24.09 - 9:09 pm

Hi Paul,



I got your contact information from Dorothy Le at the LA County Bicycle Coalition. She mentioned that you are an excellent person to contact in the Valley about bicycle issues.



I’m working with Metro (including Lynne Goldsmith who is Metro’s Bike Planning Manager) on a study of the sustainability benefits of the Metro Orange Line. We’re specifically focusing on bike riders because the Orange Line has integrated bicycle facilities (bikeway and racks/lockers at stations). The goal is to recommend that bikeways should be included in all transit infrastructure projects built by Metro in the future.



To get the data we need to produce the study we want to survey bike riders and count bike trips (count peds as well) on 12/9 and 12/12.



Would you be able to help put out the word to recruit volunteers or help coordinate the effort in any way? Below my signature I included a sample blurb that could be sent out in a newsletter, posted on a list serve or to a website.



Thanks in advance for your help,

Steve Crosley, AICP
Senior Transportation Planner
Fehr & Peers
310.458.9916 x3112
www.fehrandpeers.com



Volunteers Needed for a Metro Bike Study!



Metro is looking for volunteers to help study the sustainability benefits of the Metro Orange Line and its integrated bikeway. We’re trying to determine how the bikeway and storage facilities have encouraged alternative travel modes, reduced car usage, and reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.



We need your help to survey bike riders, walkers, and even park-and-riders who are boarding the Metro Orange Line and to count bike and pedestrian trips on the Orange Line bikeway. This is positioned to be a pioneering new study and would help make the case to include bicycle facilities in every new transit infrastructure project Metro builds.



The survey dates: Wednesday, December 9th & Saturday, December 12th.



Eight (8) stations on Wednesday, December 9th, from approximately 6:00AM - 2:00PM.

Two (2) stations on Saturday, December 12th, from approximately 10:00AM - 4:00PM.



We’d like to staff each station with several volunteers, at 2-hour intervals. Can you help us by volunteering?



Please visit the website below to read more and submit contact information or sign up for a volunteer slot.



http://orangelinestudy.wordpress.com/



Questions? Please contact Steve Crosley at 310-458-9916 or s.crosley@fehrandpeers.com



Thanks for your interest!