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Bike Repair Tool Kiosk
A-1 Builders in Bellingham has been a bicycle-friendly company for years. A decade ago, to mark the
company's 50th anniversary, A-1 built a large covered space for bicycle parking at the downtown
Community Food Co-op store.
Now, for its 60th anniversary, A-1 has built a covered community kiosk with a public bicycle repair
sta on by the sidewalk outside its offices at 3310 Northwest Ave. Rick Dubrow, company president and
an avid biker, said Bellingham and other communi es would benefit from more bike-repair sta ons.
“Our hope is that this is the first of many,” he said.
At first, the folks at A-1 were thinking about installing just a kiosk for community no ces. Then, last
September, Patrick Mar n, a produc on manager at A-1, took his daughter to Evergreen State College in
Olympia and saw a sturdy bicycle pump and repair sta on installed outdoors by some dormitories. He
thought back to the idea of a kiosk, and realized a pump and repair sta on could fit inside. “I thought we
should put the two together,” said Mar n, who did much of the design work for the sta on.
A 12-by-12-foot concrete slab forms the base that is decorated with old bicycle parts—gears, re rims,
lengths of bicycle chain—embedded in the concrete.
The side walls of the kiosk have plas c-covered maps showing local bicycle routes, trails, parks, and
Whatcom Transporta on Authority bus routes. There's also a bulle n board for community no ces. On
the outside back wall of the kiosk hangs covered shelves for a small community lending library, where
people can drop off and borrow books.
Inside the kiosk, bolted to the slab, is a ver cal metal stand that holds a bicycle while it's repaired, tuned
up or given air. Basic bicycle-repair tools hang from the stand, secured by long cables to prevent the . A
s cker on the stand has a QR code, so bikers with smartphones can scan the code to reach a website
with short how-to videos about basic bicycle repairs. Bolted next to the stand is a sturdy, hand-powered
bicycle pump.
Nearby on a shelf are two bicycle repair how-to books, also secured to prevent the . A mo on detector
turns on several lights when people enter the kiosk at night, for nigh me repairs and for public safety.
The installa on cost about $16,000, much of which was covered by dona ons of money, materials and
labor, Dubrow said.
School District Representa on in Transporta on Planning
The Phoenix School Safety Program was developed by a task force created following a collision involving
a young student who ran into a busy street against a traffic signal. The task force included a local parent
and individuals from the local police, transporta on, highway safety, and law departments, as well as
representa ves from local schools.
The task force recommenda ons yielded eleven major changes. The solu on was a combina on of
educa on, enforcement, and facili es improvement. Educa on measures included a new School
Crossing Guard training video, which was produced in English and Spanish to be used in all subsequent
training programs. A new training handbook (English and Spanish version) was developed and
distributed, in addi on to a “Safest Route to School” walking plan to encourage parents and students to
safely walk to school. In addi on, a School Safety Summit brought together the state's school and traffic
officials to work together to implement the recommenda ons.
For enforcement measures, a school crossing safety audit was developed to help iden fy those areas of
a school most in need of improvement. Phoenix also equipped schools with radar-controlled cameras
mounted to vans to enforce the speed limit during school start and dismissal mes. Other
improvements included the installa on of “SCHOOL” pavement stencils on roads approaching the
school area, fluorescent yellow-green school warning signs, safety vests for guards, staggered
crosswalks, and two trial ac ve speed monitors that flash when a driver's speed exceeds the speed limit
during school opera ng hours. An experimental in-pavement flashing crosswalk was installed at a local
high school. Once ac vated by a pushbu on, the device issues verbal warnings to pedestrians that cars
may not stop. Addi onally, school staff developed a set of guidelines for drop-off and pick-up mes to
reduce conges on and spillover onto the street in front. Funding of $500,000 per year was provided by
the City of Phoenix.
The program resulted in the most significant advance in safety at Arizona schools since the incep on of
the 15 mph school zone in 1950. The program reached 400 schools statewide, 6,872 speed cita ons
were given, 11 Safest Route to School walking plans were completed, and 173 crossing safety audits
were conducted.
En ty: City of Phoenix
Loca on: Phoenix, AZ
Website: www.phoenix.gov/streetssite/Pages/School-Safety.aspx
En ty: A-1 Builders
Loca on: Bellingham, WA
Website: www.a1builders.ws/
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