Go Geronimo - Accomplishments

GO GERONIMO's

Accomplishments

Founded GO GERONIMO in 1996 to promote affordable multi-modal transportation alternatives and to energize the public in public transportation. The program originally consisted of four programs: The Ride Registry, the Ride Sharing Schedule, Bicycle Programs, and an effort to get a Fun Bus. We later added Safe Routes to Schools as another program.
Installed bike racks at the San Geronimo Valley Cultural Center and the Library.
Worked with County Public Works representatives, the Sheriff's Department, and the CHP to safely place Ride Registry stops and install signs on Sir Francis Drake.
Registered over 450 people to be drivers or riders of the GO GERONIMO Ride Registry, the community ridesharing program.
Maintained a ride sharing database and a ride sharing community bulletin board from 1997-2001.
In a single year, the Ride Registry and the Ride Sharing Schedule saved 30,000 vehicle miles, sparing 22,300 pounds of carbon dioxide, 87.3 pounds of hydrocarbons, 83.5 pounds of nitrogen oxides, and 27 pounds of particulate matter from going into the air.
Produced and distributed 13 issues of the community newsletter The Wheel.
Created the GO GERONIMO video as an educational tool about how transportation choices affect both local and global issues, and how the San Geronimo Valley Community is working to solve its transportation problems.
Established the GO GERONIMO website (www.gogeronimo.org) which resulted in phone calls from several other communities around the country, inquiring about how to start similar local programs. Some locations we provided information to include: Orinda, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Santa Cruz, Humboldt County, Washington State, and Hawaii.
Initiated the successful campaign to get bike racks installed on Golden Gate Transit buses.
Rehabilitated the trail on the south side of Sir Francis Drake which connects the Community Center to San Geronimo Valley Drive.
Helped revise the transportation section for the new San Geronimo Valley Community Plan, adopted in 1998.
Provided comments that were included verbatim in the County of Marin's Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan, adopted in 2001.
Sponsored bicycle repair classes.
Organized several middle school field trips on bicycles.
Sponsored "Know Your Neighborhood" bicycle rides.
The GO GERONIMO program was described and praised in the book Divorce Your Car, and in the magazine Utne Reader.
Created and implemented the Frequent Rider Miles Contest (an incentive program to encourage kids to walk, bike, bus and carpool), which has been replicated by the Countywide Safe Routes to Schools program and published in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Safe Routes to Schools Toolkit.
Launched Safe Routes to Schools in the San Geronimo Valley, providing bicycle and pedestrian education to students and their families, organizing Walk and Roll to School Days, and "bike trains" as a way for neighborhood children to ride together accompanied with an adult.
Provided a volunteer crossing guard for three days a week over a year-long time period. Advertised and served as a liason for the Lagunitas School District to eventually fill the position. The position is now filled.
Lobbied for the installation of, and provided community input for the design of, the Inkwells Bridge, which was completed in 2004.
Began lobbying in 1996 for a shuttle bus, and worked together with many agencies and officials including Supervisor Steve Kinsey, to bring this vision to fruition as the West Marin Stagecoach, which began operating in 2002.
Participation in the Woodacre Forth of July parade from 1996 to 2002.
Regularly held registration/informational events at local gatherings to keep in touch with our community about our activity and keep abreast of the community needs.
Provided part-time, paid employment to various local community members from 1997 to 2003.
Continues to advocate for safe bicycle and pedestrian pathways in the French Ranch Open Space that were promised to the community as part of the development process.