By Staff on September 8, 2011
By Alicia Cobbs This year, the Memphis Hightailers have agreed to donate proceeds from their largest ride of the year – The Bluff City Blues 100 taking place on Saturday, October 1 – to bicycling and walking advocacy in Memphis! This is a huge step towards making Memphis into a bike and pedestrian friendly city, [...]
Posted in Community News, Green/Eco, Health | Tagged bike, fundraiser, Hightailers, midtown |
By Staff on July 30, 2011
By Barb Elder According to cyclememphis.com there will be monthly group bike rides on the first Saturday of each month. If you would like to participate, show up at the CY gazebo at the corner of Cooper and Young at 8pm. The next ride is scheduled for August 6, and everyone is welcome to participate. [...]
Posted in Community News, Events, Goings On!, Green/Eco | Tagged bike, Cooper Young, events, family, green, health, kids |
By Staff on June 15, 2011
By Anthony Siracusa This year, the Memphis Hightailers have agreed to donate all of the proceeds from their largest ride of the year – The Bluff City Blues 100 – to bicycling and walking advocacy in Memphis! This is a huge step towards making Memphis into a bike and pedestrian friendly city, so let’s show [...]
Posted in Community News, Events, Goings On!, Green/Eco, Health | Tagged bike, eco, events, fitness, green, health, Revolutions, volunteering |
By on March 4, 2011
By Kyle Wagenschutz As spring approaches many people are considering taking to two wheels for the first time in many years. Dusting off bikes long forgotten in the deep recesses of garages, sheds, and basements, many are pumping air into flat tires and reintroducing the simple pleasures of bicycle riding into their lives. For good [...]
Posted in Education, Green/Eco, Health | Tagged bike, Business, commuting, eco, Education, fitness, health |
By on January 31, 2011
By Kyle Wagenschutz It seems that bicycle and pedestrian issues are on everyone’s mind these days. Hardly a day goes by without a newspaper article, editorial, or TV spot related to the vast improvements we have seen in the Memphis bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure over the last 12 months. I’d like to thank everyone who [...]
Posted in Community News, Goings On!, Health, Safety | Tagged bicycle, bike, city of Memphis, Memphis MPO, pedestrian |
By on December 6, 2010
By Brad Christian The Commercial Appeal reported last month that the plan for bike lanes in Cooper-Young have been hammered out by reaching a compromise mediated by Mayor AC Wharton and Bike/Pedestrian Coordinator, Kyle Wagenschutz. The agreed upon plan calls for continuous, striped bike lanes on both sides of Cooper from Central to Southern. The [...]
Posted in Community News, Events, Green/Eco | Tagged bike, green, neighbors, Safety |
By on September 3, 2010
By Emily Bishop The city plans to repave Cooper Street in spring 2011 and hopefully the repaving will include bike lanes and redesigning Cooper Street to make it safer. There are two plans being discussed, one from the CY Business Association and one from Revolutions Bike Shop. The CYCA wants to hear from residents and [...]
Posted in Community News, Green/Eco, Health, Safety | Tagged bike, eco, events, Safety |
By on July 30, 2010
By Kyle Wagenschutz There has been a flurry of discussion these past few months about what Cooper Street will look like once bike lanes are installed. Will the bike lanes be wide enough? What will happen to the on-street parking? What happens at the intersections? Not wanting to sit by and let city engineers alone [...]
Posted in Community News, Education, Green/Eco | Tagged bike, bike lanes |
By on July 1, 2010
BY TAMARA WALKER On July 14th, 2008, the Cooper-Young Business Association initiated talks with Mary Baker of the Office of Planning and Development and Bill Schaffer of the Memphis City Engineering Office to discuss ways to slow down traffic on Cooper Street. After meeting with Mary and Bill, we asked the ETI Corporation, an Engineering [...]
Posted in Business, CYCA, Letters to the Editor | Tagged bicycle, bike, Business, CYBA |
By on May 30, 2010
By: Kyle Wagenschutz Proudly, Cooper-Young is a neighborhood in Memphis where everything is done a little different. Niche shopping, eclectic dining experiences, and a bustling atmosphere of excitement help make this neighborhood stand out among all others in Memphis. These are a few of the reasons why residents move to this neighborhood, and why local [...]
Posted in Business, Community News, Green/Eco | Tagged bike, Business, pedestrian |
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