UPCOMING EVENTS
The City of Albany in coordination with the Albany Strollers & Rollers and Friends of Five Creeks is organizing these three walks.
Solano Stroll
Sunday, September 12, 2010, 10am-6pm
Free Bicycle Valet Parking by Pumpkin Patch, sponsored by Bua Luang Thai Cuisine!
In 2009, Albany Strollers & Rollers provided free valet bike parking, sponsored by Meridian International Sports Café,
also partnering with EBBC at two separate locations, and volunteers
from both organizations were available to discuss local advocacy goals,
renew memberships, and sign up new members. EBBC members joining or
renewing their EBBC membership at the event received a discounted rate
at the $20.00 and a free EBBC map. At the AS&R booth/BVP site, we
used our new portable bike racks, designed and constructed by Ken
McCroskey.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! Please email Sylvia at whoisylvia@aol.com to volunteer.
Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plans
“Recognizing walking and bicycling as healthy, accessible and green forms of transportation, the City has embarked on developing its first Pedestrian Master Plan, and an update to the Bicycle Master Plan in 2010. These Plans will be blueprints for the future of walking and bicycling in Albany. Keep up with the latest on the development of the Plans, including public input opportunities, at the Plans website: http://albanypedbikeplan.fehrandpeers.net/.”
NEW & IMPORTANT INFO: See the June 4, 2010 Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Kickoff Meeting Minutes here.
What do you want to see done in Albany to make it a better place to cycle and walk? Add your feedback here and your ideas will be taken into account.
Dartmouth Street, between San Pablo and Masonic Avenues. AS&R booth will distribute information and make bike-blended smoothies at noon and 1 pm. Come on down!
RECURRING EVENTSInternational Bike & Walk to School Day
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
In 2009 AS&R members installed 150 free lights on the bikes of kids who rode to school, matching the number of lights we had sold over the past year. This was a huge success - please help us in making 2010 even more successful by buying a light or two!
Thanks to Safeway's generous donation to underwrite front lights, we are now able to offer free front lights, MSRP value $39.99. We will install 250 on the bikes of Albany school kids!
http://www.walktoschool-usa.org/faq/index.cfm
Albany Arts & Green Festival
Sunday May 2, 2010, 11am - 3 pm, Veterans
Memorial Park, 1331 Portland Avenue, Albany.
This
event, resulting from the merging of the Arts & Music Festival and
Green Albany Day, contains the best of both events!
Free or low
cost bike tune-ups by Street Level Cycles available.
Free Bicycle Valet Parking services sponsored by Bua
Luang Thai Cuisine. The AS&R booth has information about bike commuting and bicycle/pedestrian advocacy in
Albany.
Bike to Work DayThursday, May 13, 2010, 7-9 am
AS&R Energizer Station: northeast corner of Marin Avenue/Ohlone Greenway
Kids' Bicycle Rodeo
Saturday, June 12, 2010, 10am - 2 pm - Cornell
Elementary School. Free bike safety check, helmets, and confidence
course for elementary and middle-school-age kids! Trick riding
entertainment and raffle! We will again run the confidence course in this fun, Albany Police Activities League sponsored event. http://www.albanypal.net/id23.html
Kidical Mass - Family Fun RideDATE: Sat. June 26th, 10:15A.M
STARTING LOCATION: Totlot -- corner of Dartmouth & Talbot
It's Kidical Mass time! We'll do a fun
kid-friendly bike ride starting in Albany, with the destination of the
Albany Beach, where you'll be free to join in Hands Across the Sand
(sponsored by the Transitions Albany group), a worldwide day of action
against offshore oil drilling. Even if you don't have kids, join us!Brought
to you by a partnership between community organizer Susan Silber and
Albany Stroller & Rollers. We hope to make family bike rides a
monthly happening... stay tuned! For more
information contact Susan at 415-806-8955 susansilber07@gmail.com | BIKE LIGHTSAS&R has partnered with Fun Source LLC to make these versatile rear bike lights available to school kids and to you! For each Safety Light that you buy, an Albany student gets one free! For just $8 each, or $15 for two (that's 50% off MSRP,) you get a bright red rear light with three blinking modes, a clip and a quick-off bike mount. Our AS&R version
supports a good, grass-roots
advocacy cause promoting bike-ped safety for children in our local
community. We appreciate your support of this great SR2S program by
purchasing our lights through AS&R. To purchase or for more information, come to any of our events or contact Amy Smolens at calamari@alumni.duke.edu. **October 7, 2009 was International Bike & Walk to School Day. AS&R members installed 150 free lights on the bikes of kids who rode to school - a huge success! Help us give more kids lights by buying some for yourself or as gifts! A copy of an article we wrote appears in the AS&R Documents page and on our International Bike & Walk to School Day page:WT-November.pdf
NEW FOR 2010!!
Thanks to Safeway's generous donation to underwrite 500 front lights, we are now able to offer free front lights, MSRP value $39.99. For every light that we give away, an Albany school kid will get one free.
We distributed 125 of these front lights at May 2nd's Arts & Green Festival. The next opportunity to get free lights will be at September 12th's Solano Stroll. Help kids and adults ride more safely and light up the Albany night!
Welcome to the Albany Strollers & Rollers website! Albany Strollers & Rollers (AS&R) was founded by Preston Jordan and Nick Pilch in 2004 to address bicycle and pedestrian safety issues in and around Albany, California. Currently we are 291 members strong. For a more detailed summary of what we do, please feel free to download the AS&R article which appeared in the August 2008 issue of Wheel Truth, the monthly newsletter of one of our local sponsors, Grizzly Peak Cyclists.
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