Zach's Ride for Safe Streets
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Ride Details (updated 2/17/23 )
Date: Saturday, March 4, 2023
Time: Participants will gather starting at 9:30AM. At 10AM we’ll have a short speech and then riders will roll out.
Start/End: Kaka‘ako Makai Gateway Park located on Ilalo St. + Cooke St. (grassy area mauka of the Kaka‘ako Waterfront Park parking lot).
Riders: All ages, all experience levels and all bicycles that can be pedaled & operated safely are welcome.
Format: “Group Ride” we all ride together on HBL’s 2023 event route (open road and protected lanes). We will be stopping at the Hawai‘i State Capitol for sign waving and speeches (around 11PM -12:30PM) before we ride back to Kaka‘ako.
Course: Flat, 3.5 miles, counter-clockwise route from Kaka’ako to the Hawai‘i State Capital and return to Kaka‘ako.
Registration: No cost for riders but you must REGISTER.
Post Ride: Potluck lunch and fellowship.
Not riding? You are welcome to come down and join us at the state capitol for sign waving and to listen to the speeches (please still register though).
For Zach, a day-long bike ride with friends around the island ended in tragedy, but Zach’s Vision for safer streets continues to live on. In July 2011, over 100 cyclists rode out in the first Zachary Manago’s Ride in Paradise. Zach’s family, classmates and HBL rode over two-days across the island, stopping in numerous communities to voice the need for safer roads for cyclists and pedestrians.
Organized by HBL and the Manago family, the 2023 Zach’s Ride for Safe Streets on March 4th (SAT.) invites cyclists of all ages and experience to jump on their bike and join us for a ride on some of the bike infrastructure and protected bike lanes created since his passing. Together we will be a visible voice of the cycling community showing our support, and the continued need, for safer shared streets by pedestrians, cyclists and motorists.
There is no registration fee to ride but we ask all cyclists to make a donation (if you register to ride or not) to support Zach’s Vision so his legacy of advocating for safer streets will live on.
From the road, he saw first hand the challenges cyclists have sharing the roads with motorists and the need for more bike infrastructure and bike lanes.
Read Zach’s last major research paper as a student at Hawai‘i Pacific University, written only a few weeks before his death.
“Should There Be More Bicycle Lanes in the State of Hawai‘i”, written by Zachary Manago (December 2010)
Watch the video from Zach’s Ghost Rider Memorial
Zach’s Ride is organized by HBL and the Manago family – registration is free, all cyclists and HBL members are asked to make a donation to support Zach’s vision regardless if they ride.
Zachary Manago’s Ride in Paradise would not be possible without many wonderful volunteers! Email Lauren to help.
Donate to Zach’s Vision!
While While Zach’s Ride is a free event, we encourage participants and community members to Donate to Zach’s Vision.
Fundraising is instrumental in supporting our advocacy and education work to achieve Zach’s Vision of a bicycle friendly Hawai‘i. Please consider donating to HBL or becoming a member if you haven’t already.
Want to contribute to Zach’s Vision? Click on each upcoming 2023 bill to see its status, submit a testimony, and check on committee meeting dates!
HB600 – RELATING TO SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL.
Establishes the safe routes to school advisory committee within the planning branch of the highways division of the department of transportation. Appropriates moneys.
SB1506 – RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION
Establishes a Safe Routes for People Implementation Program and Safe Routes for People Implementation Committee to develop strategies and facilitate transportation-related projects that ensure the safety of keiki and kūpuna using ground transportation facilities. Authorizes the Safe Routes for People Implementation Committee to develop the application process under the Safe Routes to School Program. Renames the Safe Routes to Schools Program Special Fund to the Safe Routes for People Special Fund and amends its purpose. Appropriates funds.
SB1535 – RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION
Allows the Director of Transportation to exempt certain ground transportation facility projects from historic preservation review and the environmental impact statement law, subject to certain conditions.
There have been $49 million in federal funds obligated for Hawai‘i bikeway projects over the past 10 years! Here is where it was put to work…
- State of Hawaii Act 222 supporting bicycle facilities: shared use paths, bicycle lanes, and signed shared roadways.- Annual Report to the Hawaii Legislature on Bikeway Projects.
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Hawaii State Act 47 passed in 2018, “3 Feet Law”, requiring drivers to allow at least three feet of separation between the driver’s vehicle and the bicycle when passing or overtaking the bicyclist.
“The passage of this bill highlights our commitment to ensuring that cyclists are safe on our roads, and that Hawai‘i becomes a more bicycle friendly community. I am happy to sign this bill and make Hawai‘i the 37th state in the nation to make this commitment,” said Gov. Ige.
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Hawaii State Act 134, Vision Zero passed in 2019, requiring the State’s and all counties’ departments of transportation to adopt a complete streets policy that reasonably accommodates convenient access and mobility for all users of the public highways.
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Hawaii State Act 54, Complete Streets Policy passed in 2009 requiring the State of Hawai‘i Department of Transportation and the county transportation departments to adopt a Complete Streets policy that reasonably accommodates convenient access and mobility for all users of the public highways.
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The City and County of Honolulu has installed approximately 70 miles of new bikeways in the last 10 years.
With the focus to create low-stress bikeways for people of all ages and abilities, the O‘ahu Bike Plan (updated 2019) guides future planning to better integrate bicycling into the island’s transportation system.
Highlights include:
☑ Ala Napunani St. in Salt Lake naming of Zach Manago Memorial Bikeway in 2018
☑Bike Lanes on Kamehameha IV Rd., McCully St. and Wai‘alae Ave.
CREATION OF PROTECTED BIKE LANES
- ☑King St. – Hawai‘i’s first protected bike lane completed in December 2014
- ☑South St. – connecting Makiki to Kapi‘olani area
- ☑Ward Ave. – Mauka-Makai connection from King St. and connection to Kaka‘ako
New Bicycle Policies and Programs:
- ➞ HBL Adult BikeEd program a mix of educational sessions for every skill level, from beginners who want to learn how to balance to veteran cyclists that want to improve their mechanical skills.
- ➞ Bicycle Parking Ordinance in 2018 requires all new and modified buildings to include short and long term bicycle parking.
- ➞ Safe Routes to School program in 2015 which aims to increase the number of students (of all abilities, income levels, and cultures) in kindergarten through eighth grade who regularly choose to walk and bike to/from school by making walking and biking safe and fun through implementation of the five “E’s.”
- The City & County of Honolulu received the Bicycle Friendly Community Bronze Level Award in 2014 and 2018 .
Mahalo to Zach's Ride for safe streets sponsors:
Mahalo to our past riders!
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