Wouldn’t you know, I have not heard back from our Town Planner or DPW director on my inquiry about creating a network of bike racks across town. Granted, I sent this via email and from what I’ve heard usage of email by our town officials is spotty. (Why have their email addresses published then?)
Next step: Good ol’ fashioned paper-based snail-mail.
But biking as alternative transportation option is getting a fair amount of press coverage. Take a look at this Boston Globe article describing how employers are how helping their employees drop their four wheels for two; or this one about the continuing struggle between drivers and riders over sharing the road; and finally this one about what needs to happen to raise the visibility of bicyclists and bicycling in general.
Closer to home, the RI DOT has a site dedicated to bike travel. It’s OK; at least you can get area bike path maps and read all about the state laws pertaining to bike travel.
An even better site is that of the Providence Bicycle Coalition (PBC). Lots of great info. While coasting around I discovered this Projo article about Barrington’s efforts to erect a covered bicycle shed and get RIPTA to help pay for it. If that works out, I wonder if we could get the same at our Park & Ride? It just goes to show that there is more than one funding avenue out there for these types of projects.
Saddle up for the ride. More to come on this.
[Image: BikePortland.org, http://www.flickr.com/photos/bikeportland/43605746/]
2 comments:
Hey Bill-
There's a new forum that's starting up which I thought would be a great resource~Shelli
http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/
Town website info on contact needs to be updated. I have several councilors 'real' email addresses from them in person because of problems with access to the town email. And phone numbers may be unreliable as well--even for town officials on the Scty of State site. Glad to see this being addressed!~
Will lookup Shelli's forum!
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