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
 
Hi again,

Sorry for filling your mailboxes today, but with the BikeKC meeting next Wednesday, now really is the time to write/call/email before it's too late. If you've done it before, think about doing it again. I would really to see our stream of mail turn into a FLOOD of mail between now and Wednesday. I think it will make a real difference in getting BikeKC passed.

One issue that I keep hearing about in various ways through the grapevine might be worth mentioning in your final emails & calls to the city council.

Apparently much of the opposition to BikeKC is from developers. BikeKC is going to require them to give up 8-10 feet more right-of-way for roads in new developments. I think we can and should acknowledge that this is a real substantial issue for developers. But I think we can make an even stronger argument that people like to live where they can bike and walk.

Many neighborhoods built in the KC area in the last 30 or 40 years are very un-attractive because they lack walking and bicycling facilities (I live in such a neighborhood myself and it just drives me crazy . . . ). We should make it clear to developers and to city hall that in the 21st century, we expect walking and bicycling facilities in new developments, and that it is a win-win situation for developers and residents because such facilities make real estate more valuable and neighborhoods more liveable.

--Brent

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

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