attended a public works commision meeting

[tulip]

Great, smilingcat! Bicycles traffic has alot more in common with car traffic than pedestrian traffic. That's a hard concept for some folks to understand.

There's good information on bicycle transit and planning out there. Start with the League of American Bicyclists. Also, a planning and design firm on the east coast does alot of bike planning and has a good website with lots of good resources and links. I think the name of the firm is Toole Design, it's in Maryland.

[Trek420]

Thank you smilingcat and all those who advocate both off road and on.

Keep us posted.

Support your local bike advocacy group. I feel besides volunteering and showing up at meetings the best thing we can do is be the good example.

Be the cyclist who obeys the traffic signals, stops at stop signs (we all do that, right? ) One of the things I often say to those who trash talk about us is "you haven't seen me do that, right?" And then explain that one of the important lessens of riding safely is whenever possible I don't drive my bike the same route I'd drive my car. Instead I think side streets, parallel roads, off roads.

So while we have the right to any road unless expressly forbidden some of the best riders are not where cars and drivers are.

It only takes a moment to check the action center at:

www.bikeleague.org/action/index.php

They'll have the link to just click, send a letter to the appropriate person regarding our burning needs .... to ride our bikes safely There, advocacy and you don't even have to log off and ride to a meeting.