Bike People
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About this page
Who makes up CUNY Bikes!? Simple: a network of people interested in making cities more bike-friendly.
Do you ride a bike in the city? Do you do transportation research? Are you a bike advocate? If so, add yourself to this list so people can learn more...
[I've added people's names below and the random things I know about them, but please edit details, add links, etc.]
Ervink 12:58, 11 April 2008 (PDT)
People
Tom Angotti
Tom is a professor of Urban Affairs & Planning at Hunter and is a long-time NYC cyclist. Tom was on the team that prepared the New York City Bicycle Master Plan. He is a supporter (and former Board member) of Transportation Alternatives.
Chrissie Carlin
Mary Kate Cudahy
Mary Kate is a grad student in Urban Affairs at Hunter and is currently working with the Department of City Planning's (DCP) transportation office to provide guidance on where bike lanes should be installed in two neighborhoods (primarily ethnic communities) in Brooklyn and Queens.
Kate Ervin
Kate is a grad student in Urban Planning at Hunter and is currently working on a documentary film about bike planning in NYC and the way individuals move through the city. She rode to work and school when she lived in Chicago, but stopped riding in NYC when her bike disappeared (along with the parking meter it was attached to). She just bought a used bike and is thrilled to be riding again. Kate recently coordinated the a bike planning tour for a group of high school students from all over the country who descended on Brooklyn for the Young Planners Network conference.
Brooke Gillespie
Brooke is in the CUNY Baccalaureate program at Hunter...
Helen Ho
Helen Ho is a Community Organizer with NYC Parks and a grad student in Urban Planning at Hunter College. She has been working with the Transportation Alternatives Queens Committee in spearheading the first ever Tour de Queens bike tour, a 20 mile ride for 500 people on June 8, 2008. Most of her work has been based in Queens, leading small and large rides; consulting with the Parks Dept, DOT, and City Planning on the Queens East River Greenway on Vernon Blvd; coordinating bike oriented Parks events for kids; suggesting where sheltered bike racks would be most helpful; and learning from the experiences of the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative.
Matthew Ides
Matt is a grad student in Urban Planning at Hunter and is working on the following research:
In a city that is dominated by the automobile I want to find out how its residents who use other modes of transportation actually view the built environment. While all forms of transit modes could be studied, I find that this small minority (.05% of residents who commute by bike) would make for a rich case study. The sole purpose is to record the subjective perspective (mental image/imageability) New York City bicycle commuters have of the built environment, good or bad. In addition, the goal of the study is to gather, through a survey, general information about bicycle commuters in New York City. This data will illustrate bike commuter demographics and issues that these bike commuters face. The second component, through one on one interviews, of the study will look at how a bicycle commuter views the city via imageability. More info at [hubandspokes.blogspot.com]. The survey is online with 400 respondents to date and interviews to start in April 2008.
Chris Illum
Rich Krollman
Rich is working on a master's in Social Work at Hunter and is researching how people perceive safety in different types of bike lanes. He is working on a youth bike project in the South Bronx and is active in the Times Up! direct action environmental organization and the Ghost Bikes Project.
Nicole Leifer
Oksana Miranova
Oksana is the Volunteer and Membership Outreach Coordinator at Transportation Alternatives and has been working with CUNY Bikes! in order to form some partnerships with T.A. She recently helped out with the Young Planners Network conference by helping to lead a tour of high school students from across the country who wanted to learn more about bike planning in densely populated urban areas.
Carina Molnar
Wallace Murray
Wallace is a Geography grad student at Hunter and spent Fall '07 and part of Spring '08 working on bike parking issues with DCP and DOT...
Jason Nu
... and Jason helped develop this wiki! Jason and Wallace Murray conducted the NYC Bicycle Parking Survey during the 2007/2008 academic year. The results of the survey are being used by the DOT and DCP for bicycle planning purposes.
Jason completed the 5-boro bike tour on Sunday, May 4th, 2008. It was the first time he had done the tour and the first time he has biked in the Bronx and Staten Island. It was a great experience and he's excited about doing more bike tours soon.
Bessie Oster
Lesley Patrick
Lesley is the Program Manager at the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities and is enrolled in the Earth and Environmental Sciences doctoral program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Lesley’s research interests include global climate change, environmental justice and sustainability, and physical geography.
Shira Siegel
Michael Porto
Mike is a grad student at Hunter College in the urban planning program, and currently interns at the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative. He strongly believes that NYC has amazing potential to be truly an amazing biking town. "If you build it, they will ride".
Eva Tessza Udvarhelyi
Tessza is working on her PhD in Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Grad Center. She is a long-time biker (both in her hometown, Budapest, and here in NYC) and is currently putting together a participatory action research project about Critical Mass in these two cities, from the point of view of the political meanings of public space. From Fall 2008 Tessza will teach a course on urban social movements at the Urban Affairs Program at Hunter.
