New bike rack dedication Saturday at Peacock Park
Leadership Miami (Team 6), a program of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce along with the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce is celebrating the unveiling of an artistic bike rack designed and painted by artist David "Lebo" LeBatard.
The one-of-a-kind bike rack is being dedicated on Saturday, March 28 at Peacock Park.
Festivities are at the Glass House from 4 to 6 pm. They include light refreshments and short speeches by special guests: Commissioner Marc Sarnoff; David Collins Grove BID Executive Director and Collin Worth, Bicycle Coordinator for the City's Bicycle Action Committee.
"Bike the Grove" is where fitness meets art, it is a project which ties in with Miami's Bicycle Action Plan, a green initiative seeking to encourage bicycling and bicycle issues.
April 26, the Grove's streets will be shut down for Coconut Grove Bike Day and two more special bike racks will be unveiled.
Also, there is a short Survey that FIU and the County are conducting related to bike use. If you would like to take the survey it is here.
The one-of-a-kind bike rack is being dedicated on Saturday, March 28 at Peacock Park.
Festivities are at the Glass House from 4 to 6 pm. They include light refreshments and short speeches by special guests: Commissioner Marc Sarnoff; David Collins Grove BID Executive Director and Collin Worth, Bicycle Coordinator for the City's Bicycle Action Committee.
"Bike the Grove" is where fitness meets art, it is a project which ties in with Miami's Bicycle Action Plan, a green initiative seeking to encourage bicycling and bicycle issues.
April 26, the Grove's streets will be shut down for Coconut Grove Bike Day and two more special bike racks will be unveiled.
Also, there is a short Survey that FIU and the County are conducting related to bike use. If you would like to take the survey it is here.
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4 Comments:
Installing artistic bike racks in Coconut Grove is a step (or peddle) in the right direction. Any effort to encourage more bicyclists to reduce the use of fossil fuels, exercise, and consider Coconut Grove as a bike friendly shopping, dinning and entertainment destination is a very good thing. Creating a few whimsical bike racks will no doubt help generate some attention as sculptures and will even be functional enough to secure a few bikes. But lets also make a real effort to encourage many more bikers to enjoy our Grove. Lets be sure to waist no further time and install utilitarian bike racks that will accommodate and secure lots of bikes. The Grove needs to designate areas for utilitarian bike racks that can accommodate 25 -50 bikes. The location in front of the Barnacle would be ideal. A few car parking spaces on Fuller, Matilda and even Commodore should also be designated for utilitarian bike racks. More bike racks = more bikers = less cars = less traffic = more shoppers = everyone wins. Harry Emilio Gottlieb
Thanks for posting up the link to the survey! We really appreciate it :)
Nice. Racks are cool. But again, Bike racks are not the problem. Anyone who has a bike knows that you can lock it just about anywhere (use good, solid locks, please). And those who have expensive road or mountain bikes just don't leave'em out there unnattended, we're not crazy.
What people with bikes need are Bike Paths, mainly. From Peacock Park till Key Biscayne, for instance, it a real mess, a veritable mine field. Very dangerous for bikes. How about repaving South Bayshore Drive, painting it properperly, including bikes paths and signs for cars/bikes alike, also Tiger tail, Main Hwy, Douglass, a real mess for bikes. Hopefully Mr Sarnoff and others one day hop on a real Bike, Road Bike like you see hundreds out here every day, or Mr. Regalado, or anyone reading this,, try it from the Grove Circle, up to Key Biscayne. You'll see what we mean. Be careful. Bike racks? Sure! Laughable Politics... Look at what our Neighbors in Key Biscayne, or Weston did for Bikes, ride your bikes there. Or in Colorado or Portland, not to mention most European cities. Let's get a clue.. this is laughable.
CI
Hooray for a bike rack at Peacock park! Hooray for LEBO art!
Now I have another place to launch my kayak from when I bike-tow it.
Bike lanes would be nice (more useful to me than a basebal stadium) but I'll take this as a start in the right direction.
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