Field Team:
Richard Saxton
Stuart Hyatt
Marc J. McCay
Ben Pond
Support:
Indiana University
Auburn University
Rural Studio
Coleman Center for Arts and Culture
City of York
Additional Thanks to:
Mayor Carolyn Gosa
Ben Kennard
Fred Sheely
Alfred Jordan
York Public Works Dept.
Cynthia Connolly
Lucy Begg
Garth Brown
John Forney
Amos Kennedy
Utility NOW! 2002-03
The Utility NOW! Bicycle project, was designed by Richard Saxton while in residence at the Rural Studio in 2002-03. The project began as a creative way to solve a current public works issue in the City of York (lack of transportation) and then evolved through the municipalWORKSHOP to become an independent program within the city. The project deploys utility tricycles and bicycles for routine city maintenance. Each vehicle is designed for a specific duty (garbage collection, street clean up, meter reading, etc.). The workshop created 4 prototype utility tricycles and 2 bicycles for the city to use. Bicycle trailers were also added to aid in the vehicles ability to transport additional tools and materials.