bicycle transportation alliance of dane county: administration

This page is for the use of members of the steering committee of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance of Dane County, and is edited by Joe King.

Bicycling Boom in Germany: A Revival Engineered by Public Policy is a paper from Transportation Quarterly by Rutgers University researcher John Pucher in which he documents a dramatic increase in bicycling in Germany and argues that public policy was responsible. I don't have (and haven't sought) permission to republish this, which is why it's here instead of on the main page.

Membership Documents

Here are some of the documents that are sent to membership. They are converted from Word to HTML by a none-too-bright filter, so please consider content and ignore form. Everywhere there is a word enclosed in angle brackets Word is replacing the word with the contents of a database field when it prints (in a process called a "mail merge"). I've also included some PDF files for documents that aren't mail merges.

Membership invitation

This mail merge document is sent to "prospects."

Blank membership invitation

This is a blank version of the membership invitation, not structured as a letter. Updated April 24, 1998 for the 1998 Bicycle Coalition table.

Membership form

This is sent with the renewal dunning letter.

Blank membership form

Intended to be precisely the same as the membership form above, but with the mail merge fields stripped.

Renewal dunning letter

Ideally, this is sent to members before their membership expires, but in practice it often arrives only after that sad event.

Welcome letter

This is sent, with membership cards, to new members.

Thanks letter

This is sent, with membership cards, to renewing members.

Mailing List/Membership Updates

Use this form to submit mailing list and membership updates. It generates mail to the membership coordinator.

Miscellaneous

Here is a copy of the mailing list report, updated rarely (most recently on March 16, 1999).