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
 
Subject: Re: BikeKC "Yellow Jersey" Presentation to City Council Thursday,
1:45PM

John,

It passed 11 to 1/2

The "1/2" was our favorite councilman, Ed Ford, who gave impassioned speeches about how dangerous bicycling was, then when it came time to vote, cheerily called out "Aye" when it was his turn.

The vote had proceeded through several more people before he had the presence of mind to yell out "NAY! I meant NAY!".

It went pretty well, altogether. We knew it had support but we thought there would be more "no" votes than just Ed's. Bonnie Sue Cooper voter for it, and she has always been in opposition & had some concerned-sounding questions in the meeting beforehand. But she voted "Yes".

I'll write up a longer piece about what happened Thursday when I get the time & send you a copy if I remember (remind me Monday or so if you haven't received it yet . . . )
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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