Rumblings of bike/ped advocacy in my city...
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I'm sure what I have to face is nothing like what most of you have to face every day. Unfortunately I have to ride down a busy 4-lane street with effectively no speed limit (20mph, it's never enforced). Two articles appeared in our local paper today:
Street unsafe for peds and cyclists
Street signs to alert drivers to peds
I've never attended a city council meeting or wrote letters, but I think I might start. Personally these signs aren't going to do any good and I'll be surprised if they last more than 3 days. They're going to mount them in the middle of the road?!? Crazy.
Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions for attending council meetings and speaking up? That's where most of the action is happening so I doubt letter-writing will do any good.
Street unsafe for peds and cyclists
Street signs to alert drivers to peds
I've never attended a city council meeting or wrote letters, but I think I might start. Personally these signs aren't going to do any good and I'll be surprised if they last more than 3 days. They're going to mount them in the middle of the road?!? Crazy.
Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions for attending council meetings and speaking up? That's where most of the action is happening so I doubt letter-writing will do any good.
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Originally Posted by fallstorm
<snip> Personally these signs aren't going to do any good and I'll be surprised if they last more than 3 days. They're going to mount them in the middle of the road?!? Crazy.
of a crosswalk from a further distance away. Some municipalities have signs that say 'enforced by fine',
or something along those lines.
Originally Posted by fallstorm
Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions for attending council meetings and speaking up? That's where most of the action is happening so I doubt letter-writing will do any good.
In my experience, it is also a good idea to have something prepared when speaking, rather than ad libbing it.
You should still write a letter, to help organize your argument, and send it to the newspaper.
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Originally Posted by fallstorm
Personally these signs aren't going to do any good and I'll be surprised if they last more than 3 days. They're going to mount them in the middle of the road?!? Crazy.
It also helps if the police, from time to time, station plain-clothes "walkers" and aggressively ticket cars that fail to yield. In the end that may be the real effective measure.
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Originally Posted by Slow Train
It also helps if the police, from time to time, station plain-clothes "walkers" and aggressively ticket cars that fail to yield. In the end that may be the real effective measure.
I keep neglecting to find out what time the council meetings are. I've been waking up at around 3pm every day, so I unfortunately don't have time to get to city hall before they lock the doors. I'll make a special point of waking up "early" and doing it tomorrow.
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The city here recently put up usch signs in the downtown district, and they have been more then effective. Here, people stop at YIED signs and blow off STOP signs and red lights. Go figure.