Please mail
donation checks to:

RRSafety
Bike Trail Project
P.O. Box 1014
San Luis Obispo, CA
93406

Your donation will be used for construction of the trail itself. Please donate whatever you can. Whether you donate $5 or $50,000 – every dollar will help.

Your donation is 100% tax deductible. Any funds raised beyond the needs of the “missing link” project will be donated to future extensions of the Railroad Safety Bicycle Trail. To assist the Rotary Club in raising funds for the Railroad Safety Bicycle Trail Project, ECOSLO is coordinating donations.

LEGACY DONATION? QUESTIONS?
PLEASE CONTACT:

ROTARY:
JAN HOWELL MARX
541-2716

ECOSLO:
MORGAN RAFFERTY
544-1777

“It is truly exciting for members of our Rotary Club to be leading a diverse coalition of people and groups to raise funds to connect two primary sections of the Railroad Safety Bicycle Trail. We are encouraging safe, car-free ingress and egress between Cal Poly and the Downtown for the first time, and helping bring our city into the forefront of alternate transportation.”
Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo President
Roxanne Carr

“Completing the “Missing Link” will not only reduce traffic congestion on campus and in the city, but also help to reduce our carbon emissions and improve air quality by reducing the number of cars on the road.”
ECOSLO Executive Director
Morgan Rafferty

“This is not just about recreation. It is an important transportation choice that will get cars off the road, enhance safety for everyone and help reduce pollution,”
Rotary Club, Clean and Green Project Chair
Jan Marx

“More bicycle and foot traffic means fewer cars going in and out of the Cal Poly campus. This will help reduce traffic congestion and accidents in our neighborhoods.”
Residents for Quality Neighborhoods
Cydney Holcomb

“The City’s 2007 Bicycle Transportation Plan ranks the Railroad Safety Trail bicycle and pedestrian path as the highest priority bikeway for commuting bicyclists. The Rotary Club section will provide the essential direct link to the Cal Poly campus and their circulation system. Once completed, the bikeway will parallel the railroad tracks from Cal Poly to the southern City limits and provide connections to other City bikeways including the Bob Jones City to Sea Trail.”
City of San Luis Obispo Principal Transportation Planner
Peggy Mandeville

“The railroad approved iron safety fencing will control cross-track access and protect bicyclists and pedestrians from trains at this historically dangerous section of tracks”.
San Luis Obispo Chief of Police
Deborah Linden

“With the cost of gasoline so high these days, more people are bicycling. This project provides Cal Poly commuters with a better way to get to campus. It also gives the approximately 7,000 students living on campus a safe, easy, and fun way get downtown.”
SLO County Bicycle Coalition Executive Director
Adam Fukushima

 

Let's make it happen!

San Luis Obispo has a unique opportunity right now, for the first time ever, to create a safe and convenient community trail between Cal Poly and the Downtown.

Help fund the missing link!

San Luis Obispo residents have consistently supported bicycle and pedestrian trails. Your help is needed now to fund the final section of the trail between Cal Poly and the Downtown.

Have you ever been caught up in traffic near the intersection at Foothill and California? Thousands of students, faculty, and employees from nearby businesses travel through that intersection each day. At certain times the entire area becomes dangerously congested with vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians and even trains.

We have an opportunity right now to do something about it.

With your help and the support of a diverse group of
Community Sponsors that have joined this effort, we can make safe, car-free travel between Cal Poly and the Downtown a reality as early as next year.

The “missing link” is a 500-foot section of trail from Cal Poly’s border to Foothill Blvd. Th is critical connection is currently unfunded – too small to interest grant-giving agencies and too expensive for the City to fund by itself.

We must raise $307,000 to complete the missing link in the Railroad Safety Bicycle and Pedestrian Trail. This Class I trail requires safety fencing because of its proximity to high-volume street and railroad traffic.

Two major sections of the trail have been funded
and are scheduled for completion next year. Cal Poly funded a section of the trail to its property line, and the City has obtained grant funding for the section from Foothill south over Highway 101.

However, these two major sections of the trail do not link up. Unless the community comes together now to raise funds for this small but critical “missing link,” San Luis Obispo’s Railroad Safety Bicycle and Pedestrian Trail could remain disconnected from Cal Poly for years. We need your donation now to link all three sections.

The Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo, led by 2007-2008 President Roxanne Carr and her Board, has already donated $50,000 for the safety fencing and launched this community campaign to complete the “missing link” and connect the trail to Cal Poly.

Your donation will be used for construction of the trail itself. Please donate whatever you can. Whether you donate $5 or $50,000 – every dollar will help.

Your participation is needed now, along with the support of many other San Luis Obispo residents who also value a healthy community and clean environment. Together we will finish this trail and create a safe, convenient community path everyone can use!

Please mail donation checks to:
RRSafety Bike Trail Project
P.O. Box 1014
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406

Special thanks to the
Don Chivens Memorial Fund

COMMUNITY SPONSORS

The Rotary Club of San Luis Obispo
City of San Luis Obispo
Environmental Center of San Luis Obispo County
The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County
Cal Poly, Office of the President
San Luis Obispo Bicycle Club
Jim Patterson, 5th District Supervisor
San Luis Obispo County Bicycle Coalition
San Luis Obispo County Regional RideShare
New Times, New Times Media Group
SLO City News / Tolosa Press
Residents for Quality Neighborhoods (RQN)
San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce
Sierra Vista Regional Hospital/Tenet Healthcare
The Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club
Rotaract of Cal Poly and Cal Poly Wheelmen
Rotary Club of Compostela, Nayarit, Mexico
Gaia Graphics & Associates and Ambrose Design