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John Curran
Mar 22, 2018, 12:21:09 PM3/22/18
to Brian Potter, Ron Christenson, Lynnette Robinson, Mary D'Alessandro
Hello Brian,
Included below is a communication from the Rochester Cycling Alliance ( rochestercyc...@googlegroups.com )
which includes members Glenn Cerosaletti of the UR Center for Student Leadership ( <glenn.ce...@rochester.edu> ) and Jon Schull (Jon Schull <jsc...@gmail.com> ) who is affiliated with RIT. The group meets monthly at the River Campus at Goergen Hall.
The Rochester Cycling Alliance author of the text below is Harvey Botzman who actually writes bicycle tour books about routes connected with the Great Lakes. (harvey....@gmail.com>). Harvey is the best local resource for long-distance bicycle tourism. He would be a great person to invite to the Bicycle Tourism-themed meeting set for April 19th. Harvey, Glenn and Jon know me through the Rochester Cycling Alliance.
They would be familiar with the status of the Lehigh Valley bike trail route that leads from the Dinosaur Barbecue (Court Street) alongside Wilson Blvd and passes through the UR River Campus, Intercampus Road to UR Medical Center and then continues south to RIT’s campus. I mentioned at today’s meeting the Erie Railroad Bike Route that starts on the west side (Blue Cross Arena), crosses the river at the rail-to-trail bridge near Flint Street) and then proceeds side-by-side with the Lehigh Valley Trail to RIT. The Lehigh Valley bike route development is stagnated for a variety of reasons and would benefit from our Southwest Riverfront (Canalized River) promotion and support.
Great meeting today. We identified that our efforts involve the barely-addressed southern entrance to the Riverway. Our work will make the totality of the Riverway Trail become a vital loop for tourism.
Keep on our radar scope: "Erie Canal Landing” mentioned in the Local Waterway Revitalization Project report as the potential southern gateway. It will likely be located at or near the confluence of the Erie Canal with the Genesee River in Genesee Valley Park under the fly-over expressway bridge where the bicycle trailhead link for the Erie Canalway, Genesee Valley Greenway and Rochester Riverway bike trails is found. It has the potential for being the “harbor" for river regatta activity and parking and unloading opportunities for light watercraft and small trailer-launched boats.
John Curran
Below: The content of the e-mail does NOT address Southwest riverfront concerns. Just note the e-mail addresses and links.
On Mar 22, 2018, at 10:20 AM, rochestercyc...@googlegroups.com wrote:
Harvey Botzman <harvey....@gmail.com>: Mar 21 11:23AM -0700
Perhaps if there was a Pace station at the Hudson Ave. Walmart or on Ridge
Road near the Halal Market & Restaurant (near Seneca Ave.) the Lower Hudson
Ave. Pace Station might have additional users. The shopping area along
Hudson Ave. near Kosciusko St.; even near the Fire Station at Hudson & St.
Jacobs St. In otherwords, Pace has to place stations where people shop or
congregate who might want to use the bike share service to shop or work.
After using Pace to go to and from a shopping area the Pace users in this
area of the city might use it for recreational purposes as the Genesee
Riverview Trail and El Camino Trail are within a few pedal strokes of
Hudson Ave.
More advertising by Pace in this neighborhood might encourage more people
to use the bike share system or at least try it once. I suggest brochures
in every mailbox on each of the side streets off Hudson Avenue between
Hudson & Joseph/Hudson & Henry/Baron St. from the CSX trestle to Ridge
Road. This is relatively inexpensive advertising and worth the money.
Another factor might be the number of people who do not know how to ride a
bicycle. Handouts at every corner store, barber shop, & beauty shop
certainly would encourage more people to use Pace.
This is a walking neighborhood. Hudson Ave. is a crowded street with much
double parking and instantaneous automobile stopping when the
driver/passenger sees a friend or when a friend sees a car with friends in
it. Thus there is a fear of bicycling on Hudson Ave.
If individuals who do not live in this neighborhood continually have to
finance this Pace station then there is no "ownership" of the station by
local residents. No ownership not only means low usage but also the
possibility of a greater chance of damage to the Pace station and its
bicycles. Perhaps Pace should try to have each of the stores along Hudson
Avenue make a contribution to this and other Hudson Ave. stations. There
are more retail businesses along Hudson Avenue than in all of downtown
inside the Inner loop! More retail businesses equal more sales tax revenue.
Yet the City, City Council, City Neighborhood Dep't. stress downtown
development. I doubt if this Pace station will ever be profitable if no
concerted effort is made to market the Pace system to the residents.
A story: In the early 1980's I met a salesperson for a copier company. His
territory was the northeast and southwest sections of Rochester.
Essentially the Pace territory we are discussing. He became one of the
copier company's top sales person because he was selling & renting copiers
and other office equipment in a territory other salespersons in his company
and other copier companies assumed there was no market. He was able to sell
so many office machines because he took the time to reach out to his
market.
BTW: Zagster is a catchier name than Pace! It's the "Z" like the "K" in
Kodak! Zagzter (but pronounced Zagster) might be even catcher.
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