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.
Are there any large bicycling events coming up in the next week or two?
It would be easy and interesting to have people fill out postcards support BikeKC at such an event, and have 50, 100, or 200 postcards show up at city council a few days later.
Any thoughts about events that might make this possible?
