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Meeting Notes
Attending: Ted Schiele, Margot Brinn, David Kay, Tania
Schusler, Lois Chaplin, Fernando D’Aragon, Jennifer
Dotson , Rod Howe, Michael Smith, Kristen Brennan, Yael
Levitte, BobWolfe Junge, Sue Powell, (absent, expressed
regrets)
NEXT MEETING: Old Jail Conference Room
(small side), 3:30, January 29
Planning for spring Curb Your Car Day.
Who do we want to reach? What do we want to see happen?
When do we want to do it?
Last year's
--was too diffuse and ambitious, we want it to be more
focused.
--TCAT had some fun attractions on the bus: Hank Roberts
played cello, poets recited, Suzuki kids performed, gave
people a pencil to write their own poetry.
--Meeting for comments on the transportation plan [not
well attended]
--Science Center meeting on walkable communities.
--Cycling Club ride
--Articles in the newspaper.
Suggestions and thoughts on CYC day:
--It's better to aim towards the walkers who number in
the 1000s, rather than the bikers; the census shows the
bikers at less than 500. walkers esp. high in the city.
carpooling also higher than biking. And the bus carries
11,000 riders/day. We should build on what people are
already doing; its a smaller psychological jump.
--subtitle for day: Try Another Way Day, sponsored by
CYC coalition or The Way to Go Day
--We should use the day to bring people up a notch in
their awareness. --Make it fun. --Go to schools, --Change
people's habits. --More media, radio, TV, Ithaca Times
--Have it when Cornell students are here [May 8 is their
last day]
--Earth Day, week of April 19, or the week after, less
competition. The action could be: leave your car behind.
--Gene Endres program [?] --Contact bike stores --Make
a brochure. --Give businesses who discourage car use a
prize [see below] --have activities everyday, crescendo
to Thursday. --We seem to be leaning to a CYC week [not
day].
-- Activities: A talk. Something at the library. A walk
through history: eg: Cass Park. A ride with the mayor
or common council
Report on Monday's meeting:
They rated walkability: Titus Towers was high.
Report on FFIS [Faculty Fellows In Service] grant proposal
and class participation.
-- 13 students pre-registered. They have an outline for
4 projects. Investigating the feasibility of car share,
smart growth, developing a set of map sites of walk routes,
a fact sheet on costs of walking and biking.
Report on shuttle between Fall creek and downtown
--was on, then off, now on again
Discussion on increased traffic downtown.
-- We shouldn't try to seek solutions, but look at it
as an opportunity to educate with the goal of motivating
people to do something different.
--the way people handle insufficient parking is to not
come downtown. There's tension between businesses wanting
to make it easy for people and the traffic problem.....
--target people and businesses who come every day. Publicize
pre- tax program to buy bus passes <www.transitchek.com>.
Get that info to employees. Some businesses give parking
passes to employees. We could give a prize.
--a downtown decongestion group [?] will meet and talk
about TCAT employees being members of a state program
[the same one as above] that they can tap into.
Sharing the Road Safely brochure was passed out to attendees.
People enquired as to when that info will be a required
as part of the driver's test. A: not until they run out
of their millions of old copies.
Next meeting: 3:30, January 29, 2004, at old jail meeting
room. Come with a list of agencies/organizations that
might be hosting an event.
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