You are hereWant to help with the Nueces Bike Boulevard? DO THESE THINGS.
Want to help with the Nueces Bike Boulevard? DO THESE THINGS.
Tom Wald, executive director of the League of Bicycle Voters recently sent out a request for petition signers on their Nueces Bike Boulevard Petition. Here's the links to the relevant shit, plus how to contact city council, join the LOBV, and get active in the local process.
Sign the Nueces Bike Boulevard Petition:
http://tinyurl.com/nuecesbikeblvd
We need to show broad support to make our first bike boulevard happen!Contact your City Council:
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/council/groupemail.htm
They need to hear that you support our first bike boulevard. They need to know that you've got their back if we expect them to hold ground.Join the League of Bicycling Voters today:
http://lobv.org/join/
We are far short of our fundraising goals. We need you to become a dues-paying member today.¡¡¡Forward this onto everyone you know in Austin!!!
Post it on your wall!
Several of the business owners are putting some rather nasty and underhanded pressure on a couple of the city folks to keep the bike boulevard off Nueces, so if you're in support of this project you need to sign the petition, write your city council members, and be active in the meetings. Show up and be a part of the process, and show the city that it's rapidly growing bicycle community will not shirk from the pressure of a few business owners trying to protect a crumbling artifice of the previous century: car dominant traffic, no bicycle infrastructure and the gas guzzling "american dream". This bike boulevard will be the keystone in some rather exciting and broad scoped bicycle infrastructure improvements around town, so lets not let them keep it from us. More on all this later but I'm getting ranty when I should be playing bike polo. See y'all at Bartholomew!
If The Nueces Bike Boulevard does not happen, or is scaled down or moved to an alternative street, we’ll be doomed to a life of compromises on every single bike(parking) lane in Austin. We'll be begging for some space on the streets.
The Nueces Bike Boulevard IS, at this juncture, THE fight to fight.
Once we have the boulevard where the cyclist community wants it (where it has been planned since the get go) then we will have a city that has really decided to be serious about the commitments it has agreed upon.
The Nueces Bike Boulevard is the only political decision bold enough to secure the future for alternative transportation in Austin.
When a 9-year-old can bicycle for 18 blocks through downtown on rush hour commuting to school is because s/he is living in a city that cares, s/he will be living in the Austin we want.