I received the following from Karl Franzen, MMSD's Safe Routes to School Coordinator. I just checked Saris' facebook page for the contest and MMSD is in third place. Please add your vote and help them get better bicycle paring at their administrative offices and set an example for the district. As a frequent visitor to MMSD's admin bldg, I can vouch for the need for better bicycle parking there. Here is the blurb from the facebook page on MMSD's entry Madison Metropolitan School District - Doyle Administration Building Madison Metropolitan School District employee and visitor bicycle parking at the Doyle Administration Building is almost literally "in the dumps"! We need help supporting and encouraging our staff to bike commute and model for our students and for the Doyle Administration Building to be a community welcoming resource. MMSD is committed to upgrading its school facilities with Safe Routes to School grants, but do not have that money for this building that houses no students. Our basic facility maintenance and infrastructure budget needs millions of dollars more for roofs and furnaces, so there are significant barriers to the rise of bike facilities up the priority list. However, if we can support our staff that bike to work and encourage the practice across the district in line with our student encouragement efforts, we will experience long-term benefits. The most used location at the Doyle Administration Building, tucked by a back entry and next to the garbage and recycling dumpsters, is one of the couple rusty fence style racks on site, although it is only used as designed when the railing behind it is full. A Saris bike corral would be an amazing improvement! Karl Franzen
- - Arthur Arthur Ross, Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator City of Madison Traffic Engineering Division 215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Suite 100 PO Box 2986 Madison, WI 53701-2986 608/266-6225 --------------- From: Saris Cycling Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:19 PM Subject: Saris Bike Corral Contest - Round 2 Vote Now To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Saris Bike Corral Contest<http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=9243&id=9jm2nny313na9hrqagh0f536y0m46&id2=a5nw6b7gv74n3kxl4ns9g2ijiw033&subscriber_id=apcflqjjtwnmxgosishxdbzfxeclbfc&delivery_id=aituzqodgqonjqswkfguwtqxkukibbe&tid=3.JBs.B-UBXA.Cj79.AQnF2Q..AiBWOQ.b..l.BFqJ.a.T8VLiA.T8VLiA.NYU1jg> Vote online to choose two winners We received over SEVENTY entries into our first Saris Bike Corral Contest, clearly demonstrating the need for more access to bike parking. Our goal was to choose three entries that showed great demand and community support for increased bike parking in their community, but it was too difficult for us to choose three so instead we narrowed it down to the top eight. Instead of giving away one Bike Corral we are going to give away TWO! Please help us choose our winners. Voting begins today and ends Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. CST. The winners will be announced at noon on Thursday, May 31. Vote Online<http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=9243&id=9jm2nny313na9hrqagh0f536y0m46&id2=2oc8hfkouweopd3039vdl0osbocv2&subscriber_id=apcflqjjtwnmxgosishxdbzfxeclbfc&delivery_id=aituzqodgqonjqswkfguwtqxkukibbe&tid=3.JBs.B-UBXA.Cj79.AQnF2Q..AiBWOQ.b..l.BFqJ.a.T8VLiA.T8VLiA.NYU1jg> https://www.facebook.com/SarisCycleRacks?v=app_354826614578707 or email your vote to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> For more information and official rules, www.saris.com/bike-corral-contest<http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=9243&id=9jm2nny313na9hrqagh0f536y0m46&id2=k4lmme5w2w95nwy0yftwquj3q0kna&subscriber_id=apcflqjjtwnmxgosishxdbzfxeclbfc&delivery_id=aituzqodgqonjqswkfguwtqxkukibbe&tid=3.JBs.B-UBXA.Cj79.AQnF2Q..AiBWOQ.b..l.BFqJ.a.T8VLiA.T8VLiA.NYU1jg>
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