Congratulations to Georgia Tech and the Bicycle Infrastructure Improvement Committee: the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition awarded them with the title of 2011 Partner of the Year at ABC’s annual members’ night on Friday. This award recognizes the organization which contributed the most to supporting ABC’s efforts at making Atlanta more bike-friendly, and 2011 included some particularly [...]
We know there are a lot of Tech students and faculty who might be interested in bike commuting or riding recreationally, but aren’t sure how to get started, so we’re putting together a new mentoring program that will pair new cyclists with an experienced and knowledgeable cyclist in the community who can advise them on [...]
The Atlanta Bicycle Coalition has just kicked off their 2011 “Let’s Get Visible” campaign. If you don’t have any lights on your bike, you should, so stop by Starter Bikes on Friday between 4pm and 6pm and pick up a free set of lights!
The Atlanta Bicycle Coalition was recently awarded a grant in partnership with Georgia Tech, Midtown Alliance and the City of Atlanta to improve bike connectivity and safety at the intersection of 5th Street and West Peachtree Street. Innovations from the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide will be used in this project to connect two segments [...]
This Thursday, November 17th, BIIC will be calling upon dedicated volunteers to help us with a special project: bike counts! We’ll be traversing the campus and counting the number of bikes locked up at each rack, as well as the total number of racks and spaces available. Together, this information will serve as the basis [...]
Congratulations to Patrick Pierre and Brian Post, winners of the GTPD U-Lock giveaway! During Bike week 2011, the Bicycle Infrastructure Improvement Committee (BIIC) and GTPD raffled two U-Locks to individuals who registered their bicycles with GTPD during the week before and during Bike Week. Have a bike on campus? Make sure it’s registered with GTPD, [...]
Bicycle theft is at best a serious nuisance, and its rare to find a stolen bike beyond a few days later. However, thanks to the dedication of Georgia Tech Police, one student was reunited with his Trek almost three years later. Connor Watkins reported his bike originally stolen in January of 2009; his blue Trek [...]
While the two organizations have partnered on many projects in the past, including the university’s Starter Bikes program, the Institute’s administration wanted to further its support this month by becoming an official corporate member of the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition. Georgia Tech believes this financial contribution to ABC will make the Institute and its surrounding neighborhoods [...]
Today marks the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year at Georgia Tech, the calm and quiet that was the campus over the summer replaced by the excited hustle of new students and the sullen reunion of returning students. Bikes seem to be everywhere, aided by a beautiful day and a bounty of new facilities (many [...]
Since our founding a few months ago, we have had the good fortune to share quite a bit of good news. Sadly, this last weekend brought us bad news: Georgia Tech lost a valuable member of its community this past holiday weekend with the passing of Professor Kurt Frankel, 33. Kurt was struck by a [...]
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