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
 
I had an interesting chat with Heather Gordon (of The Wheel Cyclery) today.

She mentioned that at the KC council business meeting in June when they talked over BikeKC (and more or less got it rolling again, as I understand it), the main objection seemed to be the "developers don't want to give up more of their real estate" thing.

Someone mentioned that the developers they know realize that they must give up a little right-of-way, but that it is a "sacrifice" they willingly make because they realize that people want to live in neighborhoods with walking/biking facilities. So to stay competitive they basically need to do it.

Heather's response to this was, "Well then, let's get some of THOSE developers to talk to the city council."

It surely would be interesting to have some of those developers, who have "seen the light" so to speak, talk and/or write to the city council.

So my question to you is: Do any of you know any developers? Or even people involved in the process in any way? What would it take to track them down and get them to weigh in on this issue?
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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