The CSIT Ride To Work Group
The CSIT Ride To Work Group is based on the CSIT Building [108] at the Australian National University in
Canberra. This nominally includes the Department of Computer Science (ANU)
and the CSIRO Mathematical
Information Sciences (however, others from ANU are welcome to be on
our mailing list and in that sense are counted as part of the group).
What is `Ride To Work'?
Ride To Work is an
initiative to encourage people to ride bicycles to work instead of
driving a car or taking a bus.
It is a community project of Pedal Power ACT, and is sponsored by the
ACT Government though HealthPact and supported by the (ACT) Heart
Foundation.
Pedal Power
promotes all things to do with cycling, including providing advice and
information, organizing local rides, organizing social events, and
lobbying for cycling issues.
There are currently over 70 RTW groups in Canberra.
How does the CSIT RTW Group operate ?
It basically has these functions:
- being a forum for local cycling issues.
- eg. lobbying for improvements to the Bikeshed and other
cycling facilities, campus cycle paths etc
- a point of advice and information for cycling issues
- promote upcoming Pedal Power events
- occaisional weekend rides from CSIT
We have regular (bi-monthly) Bulletins
and use the csitRTW
mailing list for (generally low frequency) event announcements
and electronic discussions.
Also there are (ad hoc)
personal or Tea Room discussions.
Skaters as well!
Skate To
Work shares many of the aims and benefits of RTW and we similarly
maintain the above functions (but to a lesser extent) for roller
blading.
Contact / Joining the Group
The local co-ordinator is
Peter Strazdins , CSIT N330, 6249-5140, peter@cs (.anu.edu.au)
See Peter if you wish to be added (or removed) from the csitRTW@cs
(.anu.edu.au)
alias, which is all that's needed to join the Group.
CSIT RTW Cyclist Information
Quite a lot of useful info can be found from our information index, containing links to the CSIT RTW
Bulletins and some separate documents.
Submitting a hazard report to the ACT Government (Urban Services)
can now be done on-line via the Pedal Power Web Site
Report hazards in Canberra form, or
Canberra Connect Feedback or
call Urban Services
13228.
Related (ACT) Sites
Last modified: Peter Strazdins Aug 15, 2007
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RTW: sponsored by Pedal Power, HealthPact & (ACT) Heart Foundation
oooooooo Be Active for Life ! oooooooo
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