Thanks for the reply and the comments, Jesse. A lesson I guess I'll
never learn is that when you make a suggestion, you usually end up
being the one who's responsible for doing what you suggested. :-)

Seriously, today's the first day of class in a new semester, and my
list of "things I'll deal with when it's calmed down a little" is
looking
pretty oppressive right now too. But I'll see if I can come up with
a place to meet. My first reaction is to start option #1 first, and
then try to do #2 when we've looked at the plan and perhaps have
ideas and questions about it, but I'm not super committed to that.

I've mainly looked chapter 4 too and it's a lot to take in. It's the
largest one by a factor of about 3 by my count. I need to skim
the others and at least get a sense of how much there is worth
discussing in them. Any thoughts there?

I'll check back in in a week or so. Thanks again for the interest.

Peace,

Tim Victor


-----Original Message-----
From: jday@...
To: TimVictor@...; bicycling_in_gso@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 10:14 AM
Subject: RE: [bicycling_in_gso] BiPed plan

Tim,
Thanks for the suggestion of getting more familiar with the plan as a
group.
It would be great to bring in others who are outside of this list too.
I think
there are a couple ways we could all get more educated as a group about
the
plan.

1. we could read it as a group, focusing on the list of improvements
and the
method the City is using to prioritize these improvements. I think
this is
enumerated in the plan.

2. we could invite Peggy Holland from the City to present to us what is
involved
int he plan and how new projects will be prioritized, funded, how our
input will
be used, etc.

I for sure will admit that I have not read the entire Plan. I have
focused on
chapter 4 primarily.

Since this is an all volunteer organization, i would suggest that you
set up a
few dates, locations to go over the biped plan and I will help with the
outreach
to the BIG group (I have a slowly growing contact list) and other
contacts who
may be interested in attending a group discussion of the plan.

Best,
Jesse
BIG Board Secretary

-----Original Message-----
From: bicycling_in_gso@yahoogroups.com on behalf of TimVictor@...
Sent: Tue 12/26/2006 7:28 PM
To: bicycling_in_gso@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bicycling_in_gso] BiPed plan

Hey folks. I've been mostly out of touch with the group lately,
wrapped up in being a student. But I've seen the occasional
mention of the city's BiPed plan on this list and I've been
wondering for a while where things stand on this.

I have tried to delve into the report myself on a couple of
occasions. I see that chapter 4 has a nice round 100 trails
and greenways listed, and it seems unlikely that they'll all
be completed any time real soon. So is there a plan for how
and when they'll be done, and who gets to be in on the
discussions related to this?

For that matter, is there anyone out there bold enough to
claim to have even read the whole report? :-) And would
there be any group members interested in going through
it one modest chunk at a time--book-reading group style--
and discussing it?

Peace,

Tim Victor

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