Transportation Committee

Slowly, beginning with our popular 2008 Transportation Forum back in April, we at the Rochester group have been building a Rochester-area transportation policy and hopefully a transportation committee.  Our group’s policy, of course, will be based on the national policy. However, we have many innovative ideas about future transportation particular to the Rochester area that we would like to help implement with the help of many other groups.

Since our Transportation Forum generated much interest in local efforts to help alleviate the potential problems caused by climate change in our area of influence, we have been exploring ways we can implement Sierra Club’s philosophy to:

• minimize the impacts on and use of land, airspace and waterways, minimize the consumption of limited resources, including fuel, and reduce pollutant and noise emissions;
• provide everyone, including pedestrians, bicyclists and transit users, with adequate access to jobs, shopping, services and recreation;
• provide adequate and efficient goods movement and substitute local goods for those requiring long distance movement, where feasible;
• encourage land uses that minimize travel requirements; strengthen local communities, towns and urban centers, and promote equal opportunity;
• eliminate transportation subsidies which handicap achievement of the above goals; and ensure vigorous and effective public participation in transportation planning.

You've been waiting for it, now it's here: Recently updated and extremely well designed, use this map to get around Monroe County by bike.

This bicycling Map is Now available in all Monroe County Bicycle Shops.  2009 Bicycle Maps available The Genesee Transportation Council has printed up free 2009 Bicycling Maps.  The Sierra Club Rochester Regional Group is working with them to distribute the maps.  If you'd like a copy please call us at 585-234-1056 & leave your name & address & we'll send you a copy.

Map produced by: Genesee Transportation Council The mission of the Genesee Transportation Council is to maximize the contribution of the transportation system to the social and economic vitality of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region

City Place ● 50 West Main Street ● Suite 8112 ● Rochester, NY 14614-1227 Phone:  (585) 232-6240 ● Fax:  (585) 262-3106

Resources for the Transportation Committee

• Rochester Sierra Club Blog discussion on Transportation:
• Rochester Bicycling Club
• Sierra Club national Transportation Policy: 
• Bicycle Friendly Community Award: The Bicycle Friendly Communities Campaign is an awards program that recognizes municipalities that actively support bicycling. A Bicycle-Friendly Community provides safe accommodation for cycling and encourages its residents to bike for transportation and recreation.
• Bicycle Boulevards: Bicycle Boulevards are: - Low-traffic neighborhood streets that have been optimized for bicycling. They provide direct, attractive routes for bikes. - Quieter, prettier, and healthier than busy, car-filled streets - Welcoming to kids, families and novice cyclists, and attractive for all kinds of cyclists - Extremely safe (many have zero crashes over the last decade) - Healthy, with noticeably cleaner air than busy streets
• YouTube - B2 Power Means Bicycle Boulevards
• City of Boulder, Colorado -- Official Web Site - Platinum Level Bicycle Friendly Community Status Award Video by Streetfilms - Could Rochester, New York be as bicycle friendly as Boulder, Colorado.
• Streetsblog New York City » Streetfilms: Contra-Flow Biking in Boulder Find out about Contra-Flow.

Transportation Events:

Got Transportation Ideas?

• We are pulling together as many bike friendly ideas as we can that might be applicable to the Rochester area.  Please let us know what thoughts you have on this issue.  Rochester Sierra Club Blog: Rochester Transportation Ideas

Get the facts on Rochester area Transportation: ActRochester : Transportation Remnants of old Indian trails and the historic route of the Erie Canal combine with modern highways, railroads and airports to illustrate the long-standing importance and critical role of transportation in our social and economic development.   Photo provided by Rochester Downtown Development Corp.   Today, our transportation system strives to provide access, safety and efficiency of movement within our community and to connect us with other communities. --from ACT Rochester The mission of ACT Rochester is to stimulate community solutions to our most critical challenges by changing the culture of public discussion and debate.  This will be achieved through focused, independent and objective measurement of key community indicators, through diverse and timely dialogue and by promoting results-oriented actions.