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
 
To: "KCTV Newsdesk"
Subject: Re: bike kc

When I wrote you earlier about the BikeKC Bike Parade (Aug. 7th at 12:45-1:15PM) I forgot to mention that there is a map of the route that you might find useful:

http://griffon.mwsc.edu/~bhugh/bikeride.gif

I rode the route yesterday and noticed that along the route are many "beautiful" examples of:

* manhole covers depressed 2-6 inches below the roadway
* small round holes missing covers altogether
* road cuts that are eroded and rough along the cuts
* gutters that are eroded along the seam of the gutter pan and road
* potholes
* missing drain grates
* "bike eating" drain grates (the kind with slats parallel to
the roadway that swallow bike tires, causing serious injury)

Showing these would give pretty dramatic visual evidence of the kind of thing that BikeKC will help fix. Fixing these problems helps ALL road users, not just bicyclists.

(If BikeKC is passed, there will be 90% federal funding to fix this kind of road-surface problem along designated bicycle routes.)
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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