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

[Josh Benn]

Brett, thanks for the heads up.  Can you remind us all again the day of
the meeting?

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Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:16 AM
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Subject: [BVC-CHAT] Upcoming meetings with City about Bike Lanes and
BIKECOORDINATOR!

 

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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