New England Grassroots Environment Fund
New England Grassroots Environment Fund PO Box 1057 Montpelier, VT 05601 Telephone: 802-223-4622 Fax: 802-229-1734 Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)Elm City Cycling (CT)
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Quick Facts
Contact: Melinda Tuhus
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Location: Hamden, CT
Issue: Energy & Climate Action
Sub-issue: Alternative Transit
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Group Resources
Share the Road Brochure
Bike to Work Flyer
Letter to Gain Accreditation as a Bicycle-Friendly Community
League of American Bicyclists Website
Group Details
The mission of Elm City Cycling is to make New Haven a more bicycle-friendly city. The group works closely with city officials and other organizations in order to encourage bike lanes, bike paths, bike racks, respect for bicyclists, and responsible, safe bicycling.
The group’s successes so far include: creating New Haven’s first bicycle lane, adding several more short ones in the past three years; helping re-write city policy calling for bike lanes to be considered whenever major street construction is done; helping a successful lobby for bike racks on city buses and for the Farmington Canal Trail in New Haven; convincing CT Department of Transportation to formalize an informal bike path by a highway exit. The group has brought more than two-dozen new bike racks to New Haven and has also been featured in dozens of local media reports. Overall there has been a great increase in the number of bicyclists in New Haven.
The group, located in Hamden (CT), received its latest NEGEF grant in July 2008 to carry out three Bike Jamborees with/for New Haven youth in the year beginning July 1, to increase safety awareness and practice.