Kansas City Bicycle Log

Posts, email, and ideas related to bicycling and bicycle advocacy.



I post these mostly for my own convenience in being able to keep them archived and searchable, but if you get some use of them, more power to you!

Among other interesting items here is a fairly complete record of my involvement with the grassroots effort in support of the BikeKC initiative in the Summer of 2002.

You can find everything from press releases to letters to the city council to exhortations to other bicyclists to write letters to the editor. See what worked well and what caused us problems in the effort to pass BikeKC.

From my point of view, this was almost a picture-perfect grass-roots movement. The result was that BikeKC was passed on August 15th, 2002.

Now we have to work to make sure the plan becomes reality!

Most of that is in the 8/25/2002-8/31/2002 archive.

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Sunday, August 25, 2002
 
Councilman Ford,

Another idea about why the sort of street improvements proposed in Bike KC are a good idea for everyone, not just bicyclists:

" . . . road improvements that reduce car-bike friction are essentially capacity/level of service improvements.

"The bicycle facility is, according to law, already there, but desired motor vehicle speeds and volumes may not be compatible with full-lane occupation by bicyclists. Attempts to discourage cycling to increase convenience for motorists will be successfully challenged by cycling organizations on constitutional grounds, and will be unpopular with a significant portion of the electorate who support bicycling even if they don't do it themselves.

"Wide lanes improve capacity and convenience for motorists."

Source: Steve Goodrich, "Advocating Wide Lanes"


--Dr. Brent Hugh
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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