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  • Ride Robins Routes

    Ride Robins Routes

    Ride Robins’ goal is to establish safe for all ages and abilities active transportation routes to meaningful locations throughout the Robins Region. At the outset, these will be informal routes built on folk knowledge and crowdsourcing. Over time, with support from local governments, these routes can be formalized. In a separate article we will explore…

  • What a Ride!

    What a Ride!

    Twenty bicyclists came out to our Ride Into Summer group bicycle ride and I couldn’t be happier! It was a nice slow roll from Fountain Park to Perkins Field and the weather was beautiful. Thanks so much to everyone that came out! We’re going to keep it up and have group rides every first and…

  • Bikes, Blessings, and Committee Minutes

    Bikes, Blessings, and Committee Minutes

    Hey y’all! First off, we’re planning for another group ride on Saturday, May 18th at 10:00am at Fountain Park. This bike ride coincides with the city’s Bikes & Blessings event, so we’ll try to make our way to Perkins field. It’s about a three mile ride (route here). Excited to see y’all there, weather permitting!…

  • Villages?

    Villages?

    The Houston County Joint Comprehensive Plan identifies two ideas to integrate development with neighborhoods. The first, under the subheading “Industrial Areas”, describes “nodes along major corridors”.  What nodes, and where? That’s not defined, but the implication is commercial and residential development concentrated around “industrial parks”. That our large work centers should be well-connected to nearby…

  • Appointed to a Transportation Committee!

    Appointed to a Transportation Committee!

    The city council meeting yesterday was quite eventful— the major event that hit the news was that Warner Robins city council decided to revoke CRU Lounge’s liquor license. But, the next item on the agenda was that I was appointed to the Warner Robins Area Transportation Study Citizens Advisory Committee by unanimous decision of city…