Comments on: Date set for ¡Tucson Ciclovia! — April 18, 2010

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:01:43 +0000

My spies tell me that the route has been seriously truncated – though I don’t have exact details. Is anyone here privy?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:52:14 +0000

BB there is always room for skulls!

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:17:28 +0000

@BB- Assuming you are indeed referring to L.A. and not Louisiana, Bike Snob has your answer today:

“On the spectrum of bike friendliness, cities like Copenhagen and Portland lie on the “very friendly” end, while Los Angeles lies more on the “hostile” end, just next to the surface of the planet Mercury.”

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:39:14 +0000

Hmmm- It would be very cool to incorporate the swap as part of the route, seeing as how it’s bike-related shopping, and connected at the South end to the Aviation MUP – if Tucson can handle closing University, we can continue from the North end of the swap around the 4th/University corner and on through the UA campus. As long as we’re wishing, east of campus let’s route two-way car traffic all on the north (normally the westbound) side of Speedway so as to use the south side of the median for this shindig – running it as far as we can get away with.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:39:21 +0000

Before we get too excited . . . . There already is a route. If I were more on the ball I could tell you what it is. It’s a six mile loop that includes a lot of 4th Avenue and Treat, and has an extension that goes around the bike swap and through the 4th Avenue Tunnel. I’ll try to get a map up soon. I think it’s a good route. It takes advantage of passing a number of parks to use as “nodes” for dance, yoga, aerobics classes etc.

EBR

By: Coghauler

Coghauler — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:29:29 +0000

Well, this is a blog so let’s play.
I haven’t been to any of the ciclovia
meetings, but I know how to correctly
pronounce the word.
I will put forth (and maybe others will,
too) my suggested route for the event.
Start at UofA, west on 6th St. past the
optional swap meet to Stone, south to
Congress, then west to Silverbell past
the optional ‘A’ mountain climb (which
would be closed to cars for the event),
north on Silverbell to Christopher
Columbus park. Simple, eh?
An easy 4 mile route with nodes along the
way for events, utilizing main roads without
being too obtrusive (we want *some* visibility).
Anybody else? This event really isn’t very far
off.

By: BB

BB — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:10:22 +0000

@scott just another block party.

I want something which is giong to allow shopping.

Is Jared going to include skulls?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:18:26 +0000

Jared said he would volunteer to make a website for it…hey- it’s free. haha.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:11:15 +0000

Don’t worry BB, it’s a pretty safe bet the city won’t allow any *real* streets to be closed for something like this – can’t disrupt traffic ya know. I’m betting this gets done on Mountain or Third or some other existing residential bike route. Not that it invalidates the event, don’t get me wrong, this is still pretty cool – it’s just that we’re not gonna see anything like that video. Tucson city council is just fine with token gestures as long as they don’t cost anything or piss off any voters.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:44:55 +0000

Hi Melanie, no website yet, but there should be one soon!
EBR