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
 
[Letter to the aide of Councilwoman Bonnie Sue Cooper, who opposed the plan initially but ended up voting for it in the final, full-council vote.]
I appreciate your response and willingness to listen. I know that Councilwoman Cooper has some valid and reasonable objections to the plan and so that makes me doubly pleased that she is still willing to listen to the other side and allow the plan to be brought up for consideration in the Planning and Zoning Committee again.

I wish all our politicians had the integrity and willingness to listen to the other side of the story, as does Councilwoman Cooper.

We may disagree on this issue, but perhaps we'll be in agreement on the next!

Regardless, I appreciate the fact that she takes the issue seriously is willing to carefully consider both sides of the issue.

I do believe BikeKC gives the City Council an opportunity to leave a legacy similar to the legacy we enjoy today from the creation of the Boulevard system. George Kessler's vision over 100 years ago allows us to have a network of wide, beautiful, pleasant boulevards around the city today.

I think BikeKC, in its plan for good, well-designed roads in new developments, gives us a chance to be far-sighted and leave a legacy for those who live 100 years hence, similar to what the boulevard plan has given to us.
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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