Kansas City Bicycle Log

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 Lenny Nuccio, producer of the Walt Bodine radio show on the local NPR station.]

Mr. Nuccio,

I appreciate your consideration of the BikeKC issue for your program.

I am enclosing a letter I wrote to the KCStar outlining my reasons for supporting the plan (see below). See http://www.bikekc.org/ for details about the BikeKC plan.

Matters will almost certainly come to a head at the City Council within a week or two, so the issue is timely. It is planned to come before the Planning, Zoning and Economic Development either July 24th or July 31st.

There has been a great deal of grass-roots interest in the BikeKC issue, so I think a show on the topic would be lively and of general interest. At one simple committee meeting on the issue they had the City Council Chambers over half full (I understand the place holds over 300 . . . ). It would be easy to find some interesting and knowledgeable bicyclists to be on the program.

Thank you again for your attention.

Dr. Brent Hugh
bhugh@mwsc.edu
posted by Brent Hugh at Sunday, August 25, 2002 | permanently archived here

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