Rent-a-Cycle Available at Mt. Tsukuba and Tsukuba Station
I wrote a while ago about the bicycles available for rent on the RinRin Road near Mt. Tsukuba in the Alien Times. There are also bicycles available at Tsukuba Station on the Tx Line.
Mt. Tsukuba Rent-a-Cycle
Available until November 30
Rent bicycles between 9am and 3pm, return them by 6:30pm
Fee: 500 yen per day (Elementary school students and under 250 yen)
16 bicycles for adults, 2 for children
Kanto Tetsudo North Parking Lot (029-866-0510)
Tsukuba Station Rent-a-Cycle
Available every day except between December 29 and January 3
Rent bicycles between 9am and 4pm, return them by 6:30pm
Fee: 500 yen per day (Elementary school students and under 250 yen)
29 bicycles for adults, 6 for children
Tsukuba Tourist Office (in Tsukuba Station) (029-855-8155)
For more information, contact the Tourism and Local Products Division of Tsukuba City Hall (029-836-1111 ext.3246)
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Survey on Traffic Problems in Tsukuba
If you are a driver and you bristle every time you have to wait three times before getting through the intersection of Tsuchiura Gakuen-sen and Nishi Odori, now's your chance to tell someone to do something about it!
Okay, I may not have succeeded in making it sound like fun to fill out a traffic survey, but I think it is important to think about things like improving the infrastructure of our city every now and then. It's especially important these days because the population of the city is growing -- and judging by all the horrid mansions (condos) going up around the city, we are in for a major population boom in the next little while. If traffic flow is a problem now, it is only going to get worse when we add more people into the mix.
The National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management is doing a survey on traffic problems in Tsukuba and the results of the survey will be shared with the city and prefectural governments. The survey is only available in Japanese, so you might have to get some help filling it out if you can't read kanji. The questions are really simple, though. There are three separate streams, with questions covering traffic jams, dangerous spots, and places where bicycles are parked illegally. In the stream covering traffic jams, you are asked to identify a spot in Tsukuba where traffic jams often happen by clicking on a map and then you have to indicate what times of the day are the worst, etc.
The deadline for responding is March 26, 2007.
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