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(This campaign is over. We lost. What's below remains for
historical purposes.)
Help
ban parking in bike lanes on Shoal
Creek!
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Here's
how you can help:
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1.
Download the petition
Download
the petition for car-free bike lanes,
get four of your registered voter friends
to sign it, and return it to us at the
address on the petition no later than
Monday, Feb. 27th.
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2.
Donate
If you can't get some petition
signatures to us, then please donate to
the fund so we can hire people to collect
signatures.
I can donate:
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3.
Speak at City Council
You can do the most good by
speaking in favor of car-free bike lanes
at the City Council meeting:
Thursday, March 2
301 W. 2nd St.
Likely at some
point between 10am-1pm
Here's the meeting
agenda.
We need at least 10 people in order
to make a difference.
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The City is
poised to officially approve parking in the bike lanes on
Shoal Creek Blvd., at its March 2, 2006
meeting!
We can stop them, but only if we act now.
Here's a summary of the issue:
- We're not trying to eliminate parking on Shoal
Creek. We're just trying to have parking on one side of the
street, so there will be plenty of
room to stripe a car-free bike lane on each side of the
road.
- There was never any compromise with the
neighborhood, despite the popular myth. The neighbors
had unlimited parking on both sides of the street (in the
bike lanes) before the city restriped the road, they have
unlimited parking on both sides of the street (in the
bike lanes) now, and what they want, and what the Council
is about to approve, is unlimited parking on both sides
of the street (in the bike lanes).
- Cars already have the traffic lanes, and they have
the driveways. Must they take our bike lanes
too?
- The City's plan violates AASHTO safety guidelines. (American
Assoc. of State Highway & Transp.
Officials)
- City staff has repeatedly recommended OUR PLAN to
council -- parking on one side of the street, and
car-free bike lanes. Staff has told council point-blank
that the plan they're about to adopt violates national
safety standards.
- Approving parking for bike lanes opens the City up
to lawsuits. Injured cyclists and their families have
successfully sued municipal governments when the cities
failed to provide safe conditions for cycling. By
thumbing their noses at safety standards in the face of
City Staff telling them not to, the Council is
practically begging for a lawsuit.
This is what we get if we don't
act:
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