Kansas City Bicycle Log

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 all,

I just talked to John Stufflebean of Public Works about what would be most helpful for getting BikeKC passed Thursday.

I know we're all getting tired of hearing about this. Hopefully, it will be over soon (at least the first round--after it's passed we'll have to work to make sure it is implemented as planned!). But, once again . . .

John says that by far the most important thing is continue the flood of calls, emails, and letters to City Council members. So if you haven't written, now is the time, and if you have written before, it would not hurt a bit to write or call again. Emails/calls need not be long--mostly the idea is to register your opinion as a citizen in favor of BikeKC.

Another thing he says is quite helpful is having a good-sized group of people at the meeting Thursday. There is no public testimony, but we certainly can bring signs that might say things like "I like bikes", "I support BikeKC", "Vote for BikeKC", etc. John suggested that this can, indeed, be very helpful.
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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