I have seen the light…
and so has the City.
The City Racks bike racks are finally being installed. The one pictured above sits just outside The Regulator Bookshop. Look for one near you.
The Durham Bike and Ped Advisory Commission website has some photos of a few others.
Anyone who’s happy about this can email thanks to Dale McKeel,Durham’s bicycle and pedestrian transportation planner.
Asheville’s bike racks
Below are two photos of Asheville’s city-wide bike rack design. The racks range in size (width) from supporting six bikes to two, each with an “ordinary” on top. While these are not the most functional design for bike racks, they are beautiful, well-used (it was rare to see one without a bike locked to it), and complement the sense of history and community that downtown Asheville imbues.
outside the Battery Park Hotel
outside the Orange Peel
Dale McKeel, Durham’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Coordinator, says that installation of Durham’s city-wide bike racks begins tomorrow, April 8th. Read more about Durham’s City Racks program here.
wide angle lens
Just testing out shots with a borrowed wide-angle lens one morning…
I’m impressed and am considering purchasing one.
tomorrow, reception for Bull City Bicycles
Tomorrow (Friday) evening, come look at the present through the past.
Says Dave Wofford…
Reception — Friday, March 21; 6-9pm …
B U L L C I T Y B I C Y C L E S
by guest curator Phillip Barron.Bull City Bicycles gathers historic and contemporary photography of bicycles in Durham. A celebration of the aesthetic simplicity, utility, and joy of bicycles, this exhibit documents Durham’s sense of place from two wheels. Phillip Barron is a writer and photographer living in Durham. His column on Durham’s bicycling community, The Outspokin’ Cyclist, appears monthly in The Herald Sun. Sources of photography include The Durham County Library, The Herald Sun, Duke University archives, The Smithsonian Institution, the North Carolina State Archives, as well as Barron’s own photographs.
Full press release with more details…
http://www.nicomachus.net/bcac/BCB_press_release.pdf We are part of the official Smart Commute challenge. You bike here, you get a free beer.
Or, check out the website for the exhibit here.
retread
Gallery’s open…
After last night’s Critical Mass, we invited folks back to check out the show.
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Stop by Bull City Arts Collaborative any Friday from 12 — 2pm or by appointment to see it in person. Call Dave Wofford, 949-4847, to set up a time.
OR, stop by on Friday, March 21st, 6 — 9pm for a Third Friday/Culture Crawl reception.
For those of you so unlucky as not to live in Durham, I’ve made a website. Check it out here…
Bull City Bicycles — art show
March 7 - 28, 2008, Bull City Bicycles gathers historic and contemporary photography of bicycles in Durham, NC. A celebration of the aesthetic simplicity, utility, and joy of bicycles, this show documents Durham’s sense of place from two wheels.
Sources of photography include The Herald Sun, The Durham County Library, The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, The Smithsonian Institution, the North Carolina State Archives, as well as my own photographs.
Visit http://nicomachus.net/bcac/ or http://www.bullcityarts.org/ for more details, or download the press release.
crosswalk
turrets
Durham’s bike racks
The second in a series on Durham’s unique bike racks, here are two photos of the bike rack that sits between Morgan Imports and Parker and Otis.
Speaking of bike racks, the Durham City Racks bike parking program is a year and a half behind schedule. I spoke with Dale McKeel of the City’s Transportation department last week, and he says, “I hope to visit Ninth Street and the other locations over the next two to three weeks and finalize the locations. The contractor will then be contacted to do the installations, and this will be dependent on his workload. My goal is to have the installation completed by mid-March.”
Keep your fingers crossed.
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