What:  National Bike to Work Day

When:  Friday, May, 17, 2013, 7am

Where:  REI parking lot, Raymond Road, West Hartford (Blue Back Square)

 

The Bicycle Advisory Committee to the West Hartford Town Council is organizing local participation in Bike to Work Day. Commissioner Daniel Esty (CT Dept. of Energy and Environmental Protection) and Commissioner Catherine Smith (CT Dept. of Economic and Community Development) will be cycling from Cheshire to West Hartford for the planned 7:00am event. Short presentations will be made between 7am and 715am. At 7:30am, the group will ride to the Old State House in Hartford where we will join other Bike to Work participants at 8am. There will be brief ceremonies and refreshments at both locations

Bike West Hartford would like to launch a Bike Rack Project and is looking for an individual or individuals that would lead the project. We need to determine where additional racks are needed. Investigate the costs of the raw materials and installation costs and develop programs to fund the installation. If you are interested in supporting this project please contact Scott Franklin

The Events Committee is busy working to make this a great cycling event for West Hartford. Click on the Navigation link on the left for WheelFun Day.

Traffic Light loop detectors .. this info may help you trigger stop lights that use the old fashion inductive loop detectors that are buried in the asphalt.

http://labreform.org/education/Vehicle-Detectors.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-mNB6dLkk

http://ladotbikeblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/anatomy-of-a-bicycle-friendly-street-loop-detectors/

Video Camera stop light detectors:

"Over the past several years the Town has made a strong effort to install video detection when signals are replaced or significantly modified. The Town maintains 61 traffic signals and of those 43 signals are equipped with video detection. Unlike the traditional loop detectors which are cut into the road surface, the vide detectors are mounted above the intersection. Video detectors improves the overall function of the signal and are capable of detecting bicyclists." ( this info from the West Hartford Planning Dept.)

Created a new navigation link to provide a method to communicate with other committee members. Those pages are password protected. As soon as committee chairperson(s) are established, they will email the necessary information to the committee members so they can access the pages/blog.

Check out our google calendar feature on the Events page. Click on any entry and you should see a pop-up with the details of the event.  http://www.bikewesthartford.org/events.html