Each year we sponsor the “Art of Mobility” award at The Taubman Museum’s Sidewalk Art Show, in downtown Roanoke. This year’s award went to Linda Gourley of Dry Fork, VA, for her piece “Best of Friends Riding a Bike on the Beach.”
While traveling or shopping Williamson Road in Roanoke, you may have noticed a slate of “No Road Diet” signs and wondered what they mean. They have been installed in in response to the recent proposals to improve the corridor, and I wanted to take a moment to describe what is – and is not – a road diet.
RIDE Solutions has registered the following new rideshare opportunities. To see if you are a potential match, register online and we will send you a match letter with contact information for all potential carpool partners.
Carilion Clinic is seeking information about health issues across the Roanoke region. This information helps support the work of many agencies in the area – including RIDE Solutions.
Public transportation is a key part of how our community connects – whether or not you are a bus rider yourself. Public transportation connects our neighborhoods; connects people to employment, medical, and other services; and it helps keep cars off the road, which means everyone else can get where they’re going a little faster.
This past Saturday we led our annual Roanoke Tweed Ride. As always, our friends at the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation where on hand to give us a tour of some historically significant parts of our route.
It took a bit, but our Fallon Park bikeshare station is now up and running and serving Roanoke’s Southeast neighborhoods.
The 2017 Writer by Bus, Shari Dragovich, has completed her work. The compilation of essays, entitled The Thirty Minute Neighborhood, are now available for purchase or download.
Bikeshare by RIDE Solutions added three new stations to its growing bikeshare network this week. On Tuesday, new 10-space stations were added in Roanoke’s Crystal Spring Village, at the Riverside campus housing Carilion Clinic and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, and at Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers just on the outskirts of downtown Roanoke.
RIDE Solutions in conjunction with Valley Metro is launching a new Partner Ad program for buses in Roanoke, VA. Over the next few weeks, keep your eyes peeled for some new ads on the buses that will highlight community organizations that deserve more attention.
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