Northfield Downtown Development Corporation

Steve Clark, Walking and Bicycling Program Manager for Transit for Livable Communities (TLC), will be in Northfield on Oct. 5. He will do an audit of nonmotorized infrastructure here early in the day and will share findings both at a 3:30 meeting with area leaders (by invitation) and a public lecture at 7 pm at the Northfield High School auditorium (for more details see Upcoming.org).

The organizers of the event, RENew Northfield, supported by the City of Northfield, the Healthy Community Initiative and the Northfield Downtown Development Corporation, hope to stimulate a discussion about steps Northfield can take to increase bike and pedestrian safety, including Safe Routes to School.

Steve is a nationally recognized expert on nonmotorized transportation and is currently managing the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program for Minneapolis, which is one of four areas around the country to receive a $25 million grant from the federal government.

Left: We now have a PDF map of all the downtown bike racks (rotate clockwise after loading it in your browser).

Note: The Bike Rack Map will come in handy for this Friday’s Bring Your Bike to Work Day.

Right: And the Downtown Directory map (PDF) has been updated for 2006.

Both PDFs are featured on our homepage left sidebar as well as on our NDDC library/resources page.

I just ran over to Goodbye Blue Monday. A guy with a laptop told me that he was offended by my blog entry with a chimp on a bicycle. I’m not sure whether he thought I was insulting chimps or bicyclists.

To demonstrate my respect for the intellectual capacity of bicyclists (and chimps?), I offer the attached picture…

So enough with all this monkey business, Bring Your Bike Downtown.

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