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
 
sggoodri@mindspring.com (Steven Goodridge) wrote in message news:<99edd02a.0208080613.1c988e8b@posting.google.com>...
> bhugh@mwsc.edu (Brent Hugh) wrote
> > BikeKC, the plan for adding on-street bicycle facilities to Kansas
> > City, Missouri, streets, came up for the crucial committee meeting
> > vote today.
>
> You might want to consider re-wording some of your advocacy to
> describe the road modifications as "bicycling-related roadway
> improvements" and "improved passing facilities" rather than "adding
> on-street bicycle facilities", The latter wording may encourage the
> mindset that a facility for bicycling does not exist without them.
> It's my view, and the legal status quo, that every road is a bike
> facility, but some roads have better passing facilities than others.
>
> > TEA-21 requires consideration
> > of the needs of bicyclists and pedestrians in all new construction and
> > re-construction.
>
> I think this is a better wording to advocate for cyclists' needs.
>
> Steve Goodridge
> http://www.humantransport.org


Thanks--that's good advice.

--Brent
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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