[BVC-CHAT] Upcoming meetings with City about Bike Lanes and BIKE COORDINATOR!

[texafornia at gmail.com]

There's some meeting coming up where citizens can give input into how  
College Station puts in bike facilities (lanes, sharrows, paths,  
intersections). I'm on the City's internal committee, but I might be the  
only one that's actually a regular biker. It is VERY IMPORTANT that  
citizens show up to these meetings so that the people building your city's  
infrastructure do it right. The city can easily build out bad decisions  
thinking they're doing cyclists a favor if we don't give input. Again, the  
most people within your city govt. making biking decisions are not serious  
cyclists and typically do not understand what cyclists truly need. They  
need your help! Additionally, there is wording in the master plan for the  
city to actually hire... sit down for this one... a BICYCLE COORDINATOR. If  
you care about biking in BCS, you gotta go to these meetings and speak up!

Meetings -

Monday, October 26th - Conceptual review of Trail along 2818. Meeting will  
be at Peace Lutheran Church, 2201 Rio Grande Blvd., 6:30pm.

Tuesday, November 3rd - Community Meeting about Bicycle and Pedestrian  
facilities and master plan. Conference Center, Rm 127, 6:30-8pm.

City Council review of the plans occurs on January 14th and January 28th.  
It would be great to have cyclists stand up and say what they think. It  
only takes a few voices to make big changes at this level.

The City is still in the older mindset that biking is primarily about TAMU  
students biking to campus or people going to a park and doing laps around a  
bike path. If you speak up, you can let them understand it's about people  
of all ages being able to bike to work, to shop, and to the movie theater  
to watch awesome movies about biking. :) It is a very common mindset with  
non-cyclists that this type of cycling is extremely rare and is not  
important. Let's change it!

- Brett
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