I'm thinking about helping Tawn with a community project he mentioned like taking some kids out for a mountain bike ride in upper campus. It can show them that it is a fun way to get some exercise and that a lot of people do it on a regular basis. Another thing he mentioned is workshops possibly for kids in high school in the area to teach them some basic bike maintenance. I could definitely help teach some people how to use tools and give them those tips that make could fixing their bike less intimidating and a little easier.
These kinds of projects help to address snags that keep people from getting into things that they might like or be good at. Sometimes, people that would be really interested in a sport don't quite know how to get started. Maybe they're curious about bike maintenance, but don't want to risk breaking their bike or taking something apart that they don't know how to put back together. I need to get some more information on these things and contact Tawn to get some details hammered out. But I will be volunteering to work on bikes as usual as well.
Chima - I am going to repost your response under my name until we can sit down together and figure out why blogger is giving you so much trouble. I was reading your blog post and I think youre totally on the right track. I would say the next step towards research is narrowing your focus. If you want to focus on richmond and long beach for instance I might recommend taking a look at blog.walkscore.com (i've attached a link at the bottom of this comment) to get an idea of how walkable or alternatively, how dilapidated some of the infrastructure is in low income neighborhoods for instance.
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.walkscore.com/2014/01/new-ranking-of-best-u-s-cities-for-public-transit/