Volume 2, Issue 12 – August 06, 2003

“A Newsletter Published by Bike Pittsburgh to establish Pittsburgh as a city that is increasingly safe, accessible, and friendly to bicycle transportation.”

In This Issue:

* Come Meet Bike-Aid On August 10th!
* Chartiers Creek Trail and Greenway Public Presentation – August 7th
* Notice of Public Meeting For the Point State Park Preliminary Master Plan
* New Membership Benefit
* Pitt Stops

COME MEET BIKE-AID ON AUGUST 10TH!

Bike-Aid (www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bikeaid/index.html) is an educational cross-country bicycle tour that engages participants in a critical understanding of the world and how they relate to it. Each year riders focus on a particular theme relevant to our current campaign work. This summer, bikers will utilize the unique experience of a long-distance bike ride as a “vehicle” to make the links between oil and war and the effects on global communities as well as here in the U.S., while promoting alternatives – such as biking and alternative energies, and highlighting the ways in which people all over the world have been resisting the effects of oil on their communities.

Bike-Aid will be stopping in Pittsburgh on their way to Washington, D.C. (pedaling all the way from Seattle, Washington!) on August 10th. Come help us welcome Bike-Aid – there will be a pot-luck and bike movies (including “Best of Times Up”, “NYC Bicycle Actions”, “Bike: The House”, and “How To Turn A Bicycle Into A Record Player”).

Festivities begin at 8:00pm at Project 1877 at 4805 Penn Avenue (in Pittsburgh). Please bring food to share with the riders, as they are meeting different communities along the way, and will be hungry!

CHARTIERS CREEK TRAIL AND GREENWAY PUBLIC PRESENTATION – AUGUST 7TH

The Chartiers Nature Conservancy will host a public presentation of the final results of a year-long feasibility study prepared for Chartiers Creek Trail and Greenway. The meeting is scheduled for 7:30pm, August 7th, at Carnegie Borough Building on Mansfield Avenue. The purpose of this public meeting is to unveil the results of the state-sponsored feasibility study and the likely path of a proposed 26-mile long biking and walking trail along Chartiers Creek from Canonsburg Lake in Washington County to the Ohio River in McKees Rocks. When constructed, this trail would connect the Montour and Three Rivers Heritage trails and open up public access to greenspaces throughout the Chartiers valley.

The study will also assess the feasibility of a trail and greenway connection along Robinson Run from Chartiers Creek to the existing Panhandle Trail at Walker’s Mill in Collier Township.

The Chartiers Creek Greenway and Trail could become the centerpiece of the Lower Chartiers Creek watershed, connecting residents with water-related recreational activities. A trail and greenway could potentially provide 14 communities with a continuous natural green and blue recreational thread as well as preserve an important wildlife corridor. About 100,000 people are estimated to live within two miles of the proposed trail and greenway.

The trail plan and feasibility study was prepared by Chartiers Nature Conservancy and its consultants: Civil & Environmental Consultants of Pittsburgh, and Simone-Jaffee-Collins Landscape Architects, of Philadelphia.

This plan reflects input from more than 100 individuals from the neighborhoods of Bridgeville, Heidelberg, Scott Township, Collier Township, Carnegie, Rosslyn Farms, Crafton, Thornburg, Ingram, McKees Rocks, and the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Sheraden, Chartiers City, and Fairywood and Windgap. Public meetings were held in Carnegie on July 26th and December 7th, 2002.

The August 7th presentation will show the most feasible path for developing the Chartiers Creek Trail and help identify the parcels and funding it will take to develop it. The full study report will be available to municipal and county planners to guide their efforts for trail development. The next step after this presentation is to work with local governments and the public to build consensus for trail and greenway development goals in the valley.

For more information, call Bob Bolding at: (412) 580-0808. The Chartiers Creek Trail and Greenway is described in the Conservancy’s website: (www.chartiersnature.org).

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE POINT STATE PARK PRELIMINARY MASTER PLAN

In the spring of 2001, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the Riverlife Task Force joined forces to sponsor a new master planning process for Point State Park. A broad-based committee, made up of stakeholders and Park users, was formed to guide the process, and is chaired by Jim Broadhurst. The Committee issued a request for qualifications and selected the team of Marion Pressley Associates to lead the master planning process. On Wednesday, August 13th at the Regional Enterprise Tower (425 Sixth Avenue), Marion Pressley and members of her team will review the preliminary master plan for public input and comments. The meeting will take place on the 31st floor from 5:00p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Meeting Agenda:

* Welcome and summary of the planning process and goals: Jim Broadhurst, Chair, Point State Park Planning Committee
* Review of the Point State Park Preliminary Master Plan: Marion Pressley, Pressley Associates
o Consideration of the Stotz/Griswold plan
o Circulation to and within the Park
o Active Park recreation and uses
o Integrating the Museum and historical and environmental interpretation
o Special events
o The fountain and the three rivers

Further information concerning the Point State Park master planning process can be found at (www.pointstatepark.org).

Please respond to Tom Baxter, Project Coordinator of the Point State Park Planning Committee at: (tbaxter@accdpel.org) or by phone at (412) 281-4783 Extension 3103 with questions or concerns.

NEW MEMBERSHIP BENEFIT

Here’s a tasty treat to help keep you cool this Summer:

Bruster’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream & Yogurt Shop now offers 10% off any purchase for Bike Pittsburgh Full Members! Just present your Bike Pittsburgh Membership Card at the register for your discount.

Bruster’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream & Yogurt Shop
4070 Beechwood Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Telephone: (412) 422-9555

PITT STOPS

This section of The Bike Pittsburgh Leader is dedicated to identifying local establishments that have made a committment to cyclists.

This Issue’s Pitt Stop is:

Redfin Blues – A restaurant located at Washington’s Landing. Redfin Blues is situated right along the riverfront; a bike/ped access trail bisects the restaurant. The restaurant accomodates cyclists; bike can be stored right by the dining area.

Location: 100 Waterfront Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Telephone: (412) 322-5837
Web: www.redfinblues.com

Post the miles that you ride on the Bike Pittsburgh website in the Community & Classifieds area! Just send us your monthly mileage, and if you want your name to be available as an email link to: miles@bike-pgh.org

Bike Pittsburgh is Western Pennsylvania’s only cycling advocacy, awareness, and safety organization. We rely on your support for many of our activies and initiatives. You can help us to continually transform the Pittsburgh Region into a better place to cycle by becoming a Full Member for only $12 per year. With your tax-deductible Membership Donation you will receive a Membership Card good for discounts with participating organizations that share Bike Pittsburgh’s vision, priority invitations and/or discounts to special Bike Pittsburgh-sponsored events, and the satisfaction that you really are helping to make a difference for all of us. For complete details, go to the Bike Pittsburgh website and click on the Become A Member! section.

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