Please do this! Tim

 

 

Fort Collins City Council needs to hear from you about approving the 2008 Bike Plan Revision Tuesday, October 7 at City Council meeting (Please come to the meeting if you can:  6 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall West, 300 Laporte Avenue.)

 

Just cut and paste their addresses and send off a quick note:

 

David Roy, Ben Manvel, Diggs Brown, Wade Troxel, Lisa Poppaw, Kelly Ohlson, Mayor Doug Hutchinson

droy@...; bmanvel@...; dbrown@...; wtroxel@...; lpoppaw@...; kohlson@...; dhutchinson@...

Key points:

Please approve the 2008 bike plan revision
Please create a Citizens Bicycle Advisory Committee
Let’s aim for a Platinum level bike friendly community award in 2012
Ask Parks Dept. to think about a Velodrome

 

The background:

Three years ago City Council members received 200 e-mails in support of funding a half-time bicycle coordinator in Fort Collins.  That was the largest number of e-mail messages ever received by Council on any single issue up until that time.  The result was:

 

-          unanimous approval of funding a half-time bike coordinator for two years; this resulted in

-          the bike coordinator, in cooperation with Bike Fort Collins pulling in $200,000 in contracts;

-          a full time bike coordinator now for 2008-2009;

-          a Safe Routes to School program;

-          the Bike Co-op moving into City space at $5/year rent;

-          the Fort Collins Bike Library (now with 1700 patrons; 96 bikes; and around 1100 bikes checked out so far)

-          a GOLD LEVEL designation as a Bicycle Friendly Community as of September 25^th (after 6 years at silver)

 

Council needs to hear from you again.  You don’t have to say a lot.  You just need to let them know that you’d like them to approve the 2008 Bike Plan.

 

Rick Price, Ph.D.
President and Founder
ExperiencePlus! Specialty Tours, Inc.
Bicycling and Walking tours Since 1972
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