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
 
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Contact: Dr. Brent Hugh
5916 Arlington Ave
Raytown MO 64133
(816) 356-1740
bhugh@mwsc.edu


BikeKC Supporters Present "Yellow Jerseys" to City Council

Presentation to take place at City Council Business Session, 1:45 PM, Thursday, August 15th, 2002, City Manager's Office, 29th floor of City Hall


The Tour de France is a long, grueling bicycle race in which the lead usually changes hands many times. At the conclusion of this year's Tour de France, Lance Armstrong received the coveted "yellow jersey" to symbolize his triumph over the many difficulties.

BikeKC is a proposal to integrate bicycling into the transportation mix of Kansas City, a city that has been called "the most bicycle-unfriendly city in the nation".

BikeKC has faced a long, grueling battle to come before the full Kansas City Council. It represents years of work by Public Works staff and by the Kansas City Council's Planning, Zoning, and Economic Development Committee.

Because of questions of safety and cost, the fate of BikeKC has been in question many times. Only a strong grassroots campaign and strong support from several members of the City Council have rescued BikeKC from oblivion.

After being held in committee since last September, on August 7th BikeKC was passed along to the full City Council with a "Do Pass" recommendation from the Planning, Zoning, and Economic Development Committee.

Thursday, August 15th, at the City Council Meeting, BikeKC will come before the full City Council. Prospects for BikeKC in the City Council are quite good.

In recognition of the hard work put into BikeKC by Kansas City Council members and staff, and the long battle which has been fought and now appears to be ending in passage of BikeKC, Kansas City BikeKC supporters will present City Council Members with yellow "victory" jerseys.

The presentation will take place at the City Council Business Session, 1:45 PM, Thursday, August 15th, 2002, City Manager's Office, 29th floor of City Hall.

At 2:00PM, the BikeKC "Victory Lap" ride will leave from Berkley Riverfront Park, south on grand to Crown Center, north on Main/Walnut to 12th street and then to City Hall.

At 3:00PM, the full City Council will meet to vote on BikeKC. The City Council meets on 24th Floor of City Hall, 414 E. 12th St., Kansas City, Missouri. Best guess as to when BikeKC will come up on the agenda is 3:30PM.

With the passage of BikeKC, all Kansas Citians will be winners.

If BikeKC passes Thursday, it will be the most significant day in Kansas City bicycling since the invention of the bicycle.
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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