Earn-A-Bike CO-OP
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On June 14, 2014, the first of it's kind bike shop open up in San Antonio. This isn't your typical Bike shop, but a place for you to build, repair, and share ideas on bicycling and to encourage more people to ride bicycles and other forms of Sustainable transportation. Many other cities have such a place where people who lack tools and bike repair stand could go to and learn how to repair a bicycle, and now San Antonio finally has one.
The Ideal started with Christian Sandoval and when he got his ideal and ran with it a week later, a person at VIA sitting on all the abandon bicycles that were left on the buses bike rack came to Sandoval and gave him 40 bikes. The goal of the CO-OP is to get people who need bicycles on bicycles by providing them skills to keep their bicycles up and peddling along. All somebody has to do is volunteer for 25 hours on building and repairing bicycles and you get your own in return. So if you know somebody who's broke, and have plenty of time on their hand, please direct them to the Earnabike CO-OP at 2619 Guadalupe St, 78207. They also have classes on coming up bicycle repair, so if you would like hands on training, please make time for this at this link: https://www.facebook.com/eabcoop/events
They Are also in need of money to keep the place up and running as well as bicycle parts, tubes and everything else under the sun that is needed to keep a non-profit up and running and open so please visit the Earnabike website at http://www.earnabikecoop.org/ to donate or better yet, VOLUNTEER. Also if you have a bicycle in the garage that your not touching anymore, please donate that too for somebody out there would like to put that fun between their legs. Right now, their business hours are Tuesday and Thursday, 6PM to 9PM and Saturday 2PM to 5PM.
Sam's Burger Joint
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I don't know if this blog is the reason why I'm now seeing this, but if it is, I would like to thank the readers who took time and made this possible. I can only hope that the Famed Restaurant keeps this going and support the cycle track replacement on Broadway where it is needed the most. Right now, construction behind the old Butter Crust Bakery is making this unused if the construction gets finished soon, more will use it.
San Antonio Streetcar
I have yet to write about the famed streetcar that VIA is going to build simply because I have yet to go get some pictures of Greenville Ave and McKinney Ave in Dallas and it will probably won't be until August before I'm able to go. However, there's a Town Hall meeting coming up tonight at UTSA Downtown Campus at 7PM. As the anti cycling, pro-driving group called the Toll Party will try to pack the house yelling against it and spewing oil companies propaganda about it while the supporters of the Streetcar, try to counter act the miss information. However, who is going to be there asking about the cyclist? Let me tell you people again, I'm at work and I have no intention of missing work to attend this meeting. So who among my readers are going to attend and make a voice for us? Who among you will get out and say, why aren't you people building protected bicycle lanes like what they're doing in Austin in our downtown? Why won't the city of San Antonio build a cycle track down Broadway and Frio St? Because this is what is missing from this discussion.
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For the Record, I'm for this streetcar because I know that when people start riding it, they're going to start demanding it be expanded. Mothers are going to discover that they don't have to fold their strollers when boarding and wheelchairs aren't going to take 20 minutes to get aboard like they do right now when boarding a bus including the VIA Primo. Your going to be able to take your bicycle aboard the streetcar and not just three, but as many as needed especially on a rainy day. Try doing that on a bus that has it's bike rack full. I have ridden rail transit before not just in Dallas, but also in other places like Chicago, Seattle, Houston and New York and I can tell you, that this is the best that the City of San Antonio can come up with to improve the community because this community cannot see pass using a motor and not the two feet we all have as a transportation. Also, if Portland, Oregon can have streetcars and be the American Capital of Cycling, so can San Antonio. If your going to want to see what a modern streetcar is going to be like, just watch this video from Portland and decide for yourself that it is better than a bus. Until I am ready to write about the streetcar and explain my full opinion, this is just going to have to do.
Images:
12-1: The Earnabike Co-op grand opening.
12-2: The Sysco Delivery Truck parked on Grayson looking West from Broadway
12-3: The Sysco Delivery Truck Parked On Grayson looking South from Avenue B Cycletrack
12-4: The Warning Signs about bicycles and Streetcar Tracks. Image from: http://www.atlantabike.org/files/warning-streetcar-tracks.png
Up Coming Bicycle Events
Cycle In-Cinema .
When: Every Thursday, June-August at Dusk, 8:45pm
Where: Main Plaza, 115 N Main Ave, 78205
Description: Out Door Movie.
Tour De Tube 2014
When: Sunday June 29, 2014
Where: The Slab, 414 W Cevallos, across the street from La Tuna
Description: A group bicycle ride from La Tuna to the Comal River. For more information, click here: Facebook
Where: Alamo Bike Shop/Taps y Tapas ~ 1016 N. Flores St ~ 78212
Description: San Antonio's Bicycle Swap Meet and Flea Market.
Important Input needed.
Also Via is continuing its input for the the South/West Connector Corridor Study Area by having a online survey. Please remember, to put in the ideas for Bus Stop Islands And Bike Lids like DART uses in Dallas, TX at major bus stops while filling out the survey. To connect the the Survey, please click here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=498P%2fFAtHTQYxMeDJNmk%2bK2DGZAQ9EtW4KyVtbaQkdQ%3d
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