Ohio City Bicycle Co-op

About 40 members, friends and guests enjoyed brunch last Sunday; saw stage 14 of the Tour de France on the tube, voted in a board of Trustees of the co-op, and heard some major news about OCBC's future growth.

Thanks to the Flat Iron Cafe for their neighborliness in letting us bring some vegan selections (with stuff from the OCBC garden), the buffet was free; because the peleton was so fast, we arrived just in time to see the podium of the live coverage, but after some hockey, saw the recap of an exciting stage in the Pyrenees; one nomination from the floor was added to a slate including the current 10 trustees and three others (all listed in the Trustees minutes elsewhere on the website); and we made public that, given a clean Phase 1 environmental review, OCBC will be moving into a much larger building across the street by the end of this year.

Thanks to all who attended the meeting and volunteered to help with various aspects of this exciting expansion, and congratulations to the winning Scavenger Hunt team, who won the honor of NOT laying out next year's scavenger hunt!

During one of the TDF commercial breaks we heard about details of ClevelandBikes upcoming benefit auction this Friday, July 23rd at Flannery's Pub.

During another break, Cleveland Planning Commission Bike/Ped. corrdinator (and OCBC Trustee) Marty Cader explained three options for improvements to the Lorain-Carnegie bridge planned as part of ODOT's Innerbelt bridge project. While we are still hopeful that pedestrians and cyclists will be accommodated on the new Innerbelt bridge itself, if they are not, we should all make sure that the alternative route (Abbey Ave. and  Lorain-Carnegie bridges) is the best it can be -- and these potential improvements would be a benefit no matter what happens with the innerbelt.

Look for the discussion of this issue on GCBL.org and post your comments there about the three options Marty presented at our meeting.