Overview

Project Volunteer Lead: Daniel Latorre

Project Volunteers: Lily Bernheimer (TOPP lead),  Kevin Vincent (TA BK CB1 lead)

Organizations Involved: Transalt.org, Livablestreets.com, NYC DOT

Challenges: Huge increase in cyclists, not enough racks! Help save DOT money by doing vetted bulk rack requests: find efficient and smart way to do this.

Project Mission: Get 300 bike racks installed in Williamsburg, use web tools (maps, blogs, facebook) to crowdsource community recommendations, make a video PSA about how to pick a good location for a rack. Share the knowledge with other bike advocacy groups. 

"How Can I Help?" :) Join our mailing list to stay informed and join this group to message Daniel if you want to help map rack locations. Time-frame? Be ready to survey & map in May-June.

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The Plan

• Talk and confirm with NYC DOT about specifications/rules for placement of bike racks
• Make a short simple/fun/engaging web video (with Streets Films) explaining how pick a good rack location
• Script final by 6/29
  
• Shooting week of June 1st or 8th
• Final edit by 6/24, for TA BK membership party
  
• Set up web page about the project, providing info to the public & our volunteer team
• Creat a mobile app/Google-map-like web tool to gather rack suggestions from our volunteer team & the community (being made by TOPP, The Open Planning Project)
  
• Promote the project online via blogs, twitter, facebook
• Filter and vet the rack suggestions with TA staff
• Supply NYC DOT with our final bulk order request
• Share learnings & info with other NYC (and beyond) bike groups for their local use

Project Log

• Emailed Randy Wade (NYC DOT urban designer specializing on large pedestrian projects, met her at Tillary St. public workshop), asking for meeting to confirm & get suggestions from NYC DOT.
• Randy put me in touch with Wallace Murray, email-introduced myself and gave him a link to this page; hope to have Kevin and I meet with him soon.
• Wallace reviewed this and and mentioned it to his boss, they're talking next week about. Told them we're flexible and want to meet as soon as they can to get advice and find out how DOT wants to be involved.
• Had face to face meeting with Jason Accime, project manager of CityRacks program at DOT. See the meeting notes. 
• Kevin talked with NAG about helping out on this, he also informed CB1 and got their interested in this project.
• TOPP began working on the web app, and it's now officially one of the TOPP projects after being more completely described and scoped out.

Next Actions

• Add info from Google doc to this page
• Boildown rack guidelines found on the CityRacks website into simple cheat sheet, noting key points to make in the video. 
• Meet to review in development build of the mapping app
• Start planning the script for the video
• Confirm process with CB1 District Manager, to make sure practice from CB6 is good to follow.
  

Reference Info:

NYC CityRacks Program Information

Example videos: