The Oil Drum: Local

This evening I presented the full case for bike lanes, bike parking, bike lane enforcement to my local community board - CB8 Manhattan. After two weeks of leafletting, postering, emailing and in cooperation with Transportation Alternatives (TA), we got about 35 local residents show up to support biking at a sub-committee meeting. From what I understand in these matters, that's huge! We also had representatives from the NYC DOT, Borough President's office, Councilmember Lappin's office and several people from local neighborhood associations.

After I gave my 4 minute speech about why I want to bike to work and what I would like the Community Board to do, a representative from TA innoculated us from local fears about illegal biking - on sidewalks, wrong way on streets, etc by bringing copies of their poster for the working cyclist program, which educates businesses and their food delivery people about the laws for cycling in the neighborhood.