The October 5 visit of Steve Clark to Northfield went well, I’m happy to say. Above you can see me, Steve, and Bruce Anderson standing next to the dual-recumbent bicycle (quadcycle?) that Bruce and Steve used during our tour of town that morning. We had 24 people attend the afternoon Leaders Meeting at Northfield City Hall, and 40 people attended the evening lecture.

There are several places where you can read more about Steve’s visit. I wrote a long post for Northfield.org about our day, entitled “Touring Northfield with a Bike and Pedestrian Expert.” See also Bruce Anderson’s post, which has a photo I took of the Critical Mass ride that we participated in that same day. The latter featured forty or more people, most of them Carleton and St. Olaf College students, with some of us oldsters thrown in as well. Ariel Emery of the Northfield News also wrote an excellent front-page article on Clark’s visit. She did a good job of capturing many of the ideas that he presented.

There’s a buzz now in some corners of the community about what’s possible for nonmotorized transportation here in the Northfield area. I’m not sure where it would be best to direct our energies now, but one idea that emerged after the evening lecture, thanks to Alex Beeby, was to link Carleton College and St. Olaf College with a bike route on city streets. That would be a tangible link between the two sides of our community.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 9th, 2006 at 11:20 am and is filed under Biking/Walking, Minnesota, Northfield, Urban Design.