Utility NOW! Rural Studio and City of York, Alabama. 2002-04
The Utility NOW! Bicycle project, was initiated by Richard Saxton while in residence at the Rural Studio in 2002. 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, an outrider to the M12 Collective, 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.
