Here is an interesting best practices summer bike tour in Europe sponsored by Bike Hawaii. Interested? Give Chad a call.
Mike Rewey ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 08:47:24 -1000 Subject: Join our European Bike Friendly Tour May 30 - June 14, 2013 From: Chad Taniguchi <[email protected]> To: Kit Keller <[email protected]>, Andy Clarke <[email protected]>, Jeff Miller <[email protected]> Copies to: W Preston Tyree <[email protected]>, Mike Rewey <[email protected]> Aloha Kit, Andy, Jeff, Preston and Mike, Would you please consider publicizing this through your channels? If there is a more appropriate way, please let me know. Chad Aloha, Several of us interested in understanding European best practices re bicycling and transportation (Chad Taniguchi, Patricia Johnson, and possibly Jeff Mikulina) are organizing a short tour of bike friendly facilities in Copenhagen, Amsterdam (Utrecht), Zurich (Winterthur) followed by the Velo-City Bike Conference in Vienna http://www.velo- city2013.com/ (early bird registration $670 does not include food/lodging by March 15). We start in Copenhagen on May 30 and spend 4 days in each city. This is not a for-profit tour. We are all on our own, but spending the time together because we have similar interests. Everyone pays their own expenses, and we contribute to having Mike Ronkin plan and guide us for 8 days from Amsterdam to Zurich. The first 4 days in Copenhagen and the last 4 days in Vienna are on our own (we will make arrangements for locals to talk with us). >From Michael Ronkin http://www.michaelronkin.com/ : join uson a tour of >selected European cities that have figured out how to do urban transport right: Copenhagen, Amsterdam (Utrecht), Winterthur, and Zurich. Michael is a European native who has worked most of his transportation career in the US, including Portland, Hawaii, and many other US cities. He will be able to guide us through these great places with an eye not only on infrastructure, but also on culture: why did these places make decisions so different from ours in the US, even when they faced similar challenges such as too much traffic and too many crashes? We will bike, walk, take transit, linger, and appreciate how a sensible approach to mobility helps foster what humans need most: social interactions with other people. Although we will bike for the experience, this is not a bicycle riding tour. The group is limited to 10 members. Please let me know asap if you are interested. You will want to register for Velo-City by March 15 for the early bird rate. $820 after March 15. Approximate plane fare from Honolulu to Copenhagen and Vienna to Honolulu: $2,000 Copenhagen to Amsterdam by plane $100 Amsterdam (Utrecht) to Zurich (Winterthur) by train $350 Winterthur to Vienna by train ($200) Lodging: range daily from $50 (hostel) to $150 (hotel). We will stay close by. The default accomodation now is hostel, but there will be choices. $800 - $2400 total. Food: $50-$100 per day, minimum. $800-$1600 total. Guide (Michael Ronkin): Approximately $600 per person with 10 people, $1200 per person with 5 people. Total costs from Honolulu: approximate range $5,520- $8,670 Chad Taniguchi blue without Michael Ronkin, yellow with Michael. Sample travel arrangements: Lv HNL 5/26/13 arr Copenhagen CPH 5/28/13 5/29 CPH rest day 5/30 CPH 5/31 CPH 6/1 CPH 6/2 CPH 6/3 AMST 6/4 AMST/Utrecht 6/5 AMST/Utrecht 6/6 AMST/Utrecht 6/7 Zurich/Winterthur 6/8 Zurich/Winterthur 6/9 Zurich/Winterthur 6/10 Zurich/Winterthur 6/11 Vienna VeloCity 6/12 Vienna Velo City 6/13 Vienna Velo City 6/14 Vienna Velo City 6/15 Vienna/rest 6/16Vienna 6/17Vienna 6/18 lv Vienna arr HNL Ride Aloha!Chad Everyone has the right to be safe on Hawaii's roads. Mamalahoe Kanawai, Kamehameha's Law of the Splintered Paddle 1797,Hawaii state constitution 1978 Executive DirectorHawaii Bicycling League 3442 Waialae Ave Suite 1, Honolulu, HI 96816 [email protected] 808 255 8271office 808 735 5756 fax 808 735 7989 www.hbl.org
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