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
 

KMBC had a story about a bicycle commuter Monday, and related this to BikeKC.

Fox4 news interviewed several people about BikeKC Monday, including Councilman Ford. The story will air Wednesday on the 9PM or 10PM news.

The four television stations and newspapers that covered the bike ride to City Hall last week have been informed about the ride to the full City Council meeting Thursday. At least one station has responded that they definitely will be there.

There is a long article about the BikeKC hearing last Wednesday, in Kansas City infoZine (http://www.infozine.com/). There is also an announcement of the upcoming ride to the City Council meeting Thursday.

You probably saw Mike Rice's article about the committee hearing in the Kansas City Star:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/3818950.htm

Thanks again for your interest in and support of this issue.

If you have any particular issues or concerns you would like me to address when I speak to the council at the business session, please let me know. Since we will only have a very limited amount of time, I would like to spend it addressing what would be most helpful to you.
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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