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
 
[Media update sent to KC Council members]


Since the BikeKC issue is coming before the Planning and Zoning Committee Wednesday, I thought you might be interested in some of the upcoming media coverage of the issue.

* KMBC (Channel 9) interviewed some people today about BikeKC. KMBC will show a little bit of what many of our streets are like now and what they could be like if they were planned well for bicycles/pedestrians. I don't know yet when that segment will air, but presumably between now and Wednesday.

* The Walt Bodine show at 10-11AM Tuesday will be on BikeKC. It is on KCUR (89.3 FM).

* KCTV has indicated they plan to cover the Bike Parade leaving at 12:45PM Wednesday from Berkley Park and proceeding to the P-Z Committee Meeting at City Hall at 1:30.

This is the upcoming coverage that I know about now; there may be other coverage that I do not know about.

Again, thank you for your consideration of this issue.
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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