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Improving Main Street Beacon

Creating a safe environment for pedestrians and bicyclists to enjoy the Beacon Main St. businesses, restaurants, and art galleries.

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Improving Main Street Beacon

Improving Main Street Beacon

Improving Main Street Beacon

Improving Main Street Beacon

Improving Main Street Beacon

Creating a safe environment for pedestrians and bicyclists to enjoy the Beacon Main St. businesses, restaurants, and art galleries.

Creating a safe environment for pedestrians and bicyclists to enjoy the Beacon Main St. businesses, restaurants, and art galleries.

Creating a safe environment for pedestrians and bicyclists to enjoy the Beacon Main St. businesses, restaurants, and art galleries.

Creating a safe environment for pedestrians and bicyclists to enjoy the Beacon Main St. businesses, restaurants, and art galleries.

Mark Wildonger
Mark Wildonger
Mark Wildonger
Mark Wildonger
1 Campaign |
Beacon, United States
$1,150 USD 23 backers
100% of $1,150 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Beacon - a pedestrian and bicyclist friendly community

BeaconArts needs your help to fund bicycle shared-lane pavement markings ("sharrows" - (SHared ARROWS) indicate that the roadway should be shared between motorists and bicyclists) on Main Street.  Your contribution will not only help finish funding for Phase 1 of the project (sharrows on Main St.); but also show support to extend these facilities throughout Beacon.  Additional funds will support additional sharrow projects in Beacon.

Heck - the legendary rock group Queen wrote a song about riding bicycles (see below)!  Let's honor them by filling this gap and providing support for places where you can ride your bicycle safely.  If only Queen could see Beacon today...

Beacon has emerged as a destination hotspot in the Hudson Valley.  Residents and visitors frequent Main Street for the shops, restaurants, and galleries, yet there aren't adequate facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists.  Several organizations (BeaconArts and Scenic Hudson), local businesses (Peoples BicycleBeacon Cycles, Bank Sq. Coffeehouse, Mountain Tops, Tito Santana's, The Beacon Bagel, and the Beacon Creamery), and community members (Stowe Boyd) are working to include amenities on Main Street so all users feel safe.

Amenities for all users (pedestrians and bicyclists) have numerous benefits:

  • Safety:  Slower traffic results in fewer accidents and less severe injuries. Also, clear indication of where users should be decreases risk of conflict.  It creates a safer environment for motorists and bicyclists!
  • Revenue:  Increased foot traffic and alternative modes of transportation like bicycles results in more people stopping and frequenting local businesses.
  • Health:  News flash!  Riding a bicycle or walking burns calories.
  • Inspiration:  Beacon already has a bike and pedestrian culture.  Facilitating greater and safer bicycle networks encourages more people to get on their bicycles to get around town or beyond!
  • Environment:  Burn calories, not fossil fuels which pollute the environment.

And last but not least, it's:

  • FUN!:  Have you ever seen a person frowning on a bicycle?  No, because they have a blissful smile on their face as a gentle breeze flows through their hair.


Support = Celebrity status in Beacon

Your contribution will go directly to BeaconArts who has already paid for the sharrows.

Funding will be used to complete Phase 1:  Sharrows on Main Street.  If this campaign is successful, we will look to Phase 2:  Extending Sharrows from Main Street to the Beacon Train Station and Phase 3:  Sharrows along Tioronda Ave. (Fishkill Creek) - so stay tuned and please provide positive feedback (because you don't want bad karma).  In return for your generous support, we have several one of a kind, Beacon only rewards that will make you a celebrity in town.

  • Ever want to design your own BURRITO, SANDWICH, or SUNDAE at a restaurant and have them NAME IT AFTER YOU?  Well, here is your chance.  Through the generosity of several Main St. shops, you'll have that chance to work with the burrito experts, a bagel craftsmen, and a sundae architect to design and build your own culinary creation.
  • Other perks include a free coffee, kayak rental and tune-up from businesses voted "Best of" by Hudson Valley Magazine.
  • If we don't reach our funding goal...well, that's not going to happen because you won't let it - right?

Your support goes beyond just this project 

These sharrows were the first in Dutchess County and even for the Mid-Hudson Region.  It received support from the NYS Hudson River Valley Greenway and Dutchess County.

Beacon is a leader:  Numerous towns in the Hudson Valley took notice and have been implementing these same techniques to provide safe facilities for bicyclists and pedestrians.

Your involvement acknowledges that pedestrian and bicyclist facilities are critical to a healthy Main Street environment for residents and visitors.  In fact, your support demonstrates community support for these types of projects which helps when communities look to the state for assistance.  So, really, your contribution has a lasting impact and can potentially help leverage additional funding.

Other Ways You Can Help

Can't contribute, no problem:

  • We just ask that you help spread the word and ring that bicycle bell for us!
  • Just use the Indiegogo share tools!
  • And don't forget to check in and support the local Beacon businesses.  Supporting businesses are listed below.

Bicycle Bicycle Bicycle.  I want to ride my Bicycle...in BEACON!

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Peloton

$75 USD
The lead is within reach, but you are comfortable being part of the pack. Get a FREE BICYCLE TUNE UP at PEOPLES BICYCLE. + Free coffee at Bank Sq. Coffeehouse
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Thanks for stopping by - have a COFFEE on the house at BANK SQ. COFFEEHOUSE - The Hudson Valley's Best Coffee Shop.
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The Polka Dot Jersey

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Worn by the best climber: DESIGN your own BURRITO at TITO SANTANA's, NAME IT, and it will run for 1 month. + Free bicycle tune up at Peoples Bicycle + Free Coffee at Bank Sq. Coffeehouse
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The Green Jersey

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Worn by the leader of the points classification: DESIGN your own SANDWICH at THE BEACON BAGEL, NAME IT, and it will run for 1 month. + Free bicycle tune up at Peoples Bicycle + Free Coffee at Bank Sq. Coffeehouse
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