Originally Posted by
Roody
so, if you want more bike lanes and such in your city, explain to local leaders how they can help attract new young talent to the city--and one of the first things employers look for when deciding where to locate is the education and skills of young workers.
The video above -- Hackney borough near London and Amsterdam -- suggests how a Portland lifestyle evolves from the current Lansing scene. Groups of activists, key individuals, interest organizations, bike clubs, whatever... talk to their City leaders and eventually instill a vision of how the city of the future might work. Over time, this vision becomes public policy. Every transportation infrastructure decision then bears the stamp of that vision and a raft of things like bike lanes, new traffic speed limits, bike training... all this emerges as details of that vision.
But to get it started, we need to get out there and sell it.