Comments on: Streets Notes for the Upcoming Bike Plan Meetings http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/10/20/streets-notes-for-the-upcoming-bike-plan-meetings/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mihai http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/10/20/streets-notes-for-the-upcoming-bike-plan-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-44401 Mihai Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:10:48 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=16341#comment-44401 The 2nd Bike Working Group meeting is Saturday Oct 31st. The stuff we will be discussing will spook city planners and raise the brain-dead. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192264265802 The 2nd Bike Working Group meeting is Saturday Oct 31st. The stuff we will be discussing will spook city planners and raise the brain-dead.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192264265802

]]> By: Joe Linton http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/10/20/streets-notes-for-the-upcoming-bike-plan-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-43071 Joe Linton Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:45:04 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=16341#comment-43071 CICLE attended last night's meeting. Our coverage of it is up here: http://www.cicle.org/cicle_content/pivot/entry.php?id=2447#body CICLE attended last night’s meeting. Our coverage of it is up here:
http://www.cicle.org/cicle_content/pivot/entry.php?id=2447#body

]]> By: ramonchu http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/10/20/streets-notes-for-the-upcoming-bike-plan-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-41281 ramonchu Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:01:33 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=16341#comment-41281 So does this mean the city has extended the public comment period? Or that there just going to keep taking comments to the trash while they compile their final version? Anyway, the event for November 4th at Ramona Hall in Highland Park is co-sponsored by the Bike Oven, where we'll be meeting at 5pm to get some talking points straight, do some last minute strategizing, burn effigies and bang drums till we ride up the street at 6. I'm hoping to get a broad spectrum of people out so I challenge everyone reading this to not only bring yourself, but extend the invitation to someone/some group who you think would support the bike plan--as a way to improve the quality of life in our communities--but hasn't yet seen the light (and it'll of course be all you streetsblog micro-activists who will shine that light). We need this kind of support to make the case that, unlike the current Bike Plan would like us to think, everyone is a cyclist, there is no divide between cyclists and the population at large, and this plan is about helping the entire workings of this city and the people within it, not just some impositionally defined "fringe group" So does this mean the city has extended the public comment period? Or that there just going to keep taking comments to the trash while they compile their final version?

Anyway, the event for November 4th at Ramona Hall in Highland Park is co-sponsored by the Bike Oven, where we’ll be meeting at 5pm to get some talking points straight, do some last minute strategizing, burn effigies and bang drums till we ride up the street at 6.

I’m hoping to get a broad spectrum of people out so I challenge everyone reading this to not only bring yourself, but extend the invitation to someone/some group who you think would support the bike plan–as a way to improve the quality of life in our communities–but hasn’t yet seen the light (and it’ll of course be all you streetsblog micro-activists who will shine that light). We need this kind of support to make the case that, unlike the current Bike Plan would like us to think, everyone is a cyclist, there is no divide between cyclists and the population at large, and this plan is about helping the entire workings of this city and the people within it, not just some impositionally defined “fringe group”

]]> By: Joe Linton http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/10/20/streets-notes-for-the-upcoming-bike-plan-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-41121 Joe Linton Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:34:30 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=16341#comment-41121 Great summary. Sad long tale, that's nowhere near over. The Bike Plan link above doesn't seem to work for me... the actual bike plan draft documents that this all about are available at www.labikeplan.org Great summary. Sad long tale, that’s nowhere near over. The Bike Plan link above doesn’t seem to work for me… the actual bike plan draft documents that this all about are available at http://www.labikeplan.org

]]> By: ubrayj02 http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/10/20/streets-notes-for-the-upcoming-bike-plan-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-41071 ubrayj02 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:23:20 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=16341#comment-41071 Good grief, this has been a miserable process. When Michelle Mowery began talking about how the Planning Department was "the lead" - I don't know, it was just too much. I'm glad that we've got a core of organizers who can bring together the collective wisdom of the cycling public. Hopefully, we'll compile a Bike Plan that will knock this other, $450,000, official document off the table and into the dustbin. Good grief, this has been a miserable process.

When Michelle Mowery began talking about how the Planning Department was “the lead” – I don’t know, it was just too much.

I’m glad that we’ve got a core of organizers who can bring together the collective wisdom of the cycling public. Hopefully, we’ll compile a Bike Plan that will knock this other, $450,000, official document off the table and into the dustbin.

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