Safe Streets Campaign
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A group of veteran bicycle riders and advocates started the Safe Streets Political Action Committee to endorse and support candidates. We helped some winning candidates and now we want them to make this a safer city for biking and walking.
Our Endorsements
Every politician I know claims they are supportive of biking and walking in Nashville but we need more than talk. Help us out today with $20, $100 or more.
The goal of the Safe Streets PAC is to raise funds to donate to candidates who deserve our support. Every donor will have input into our endorsement decisions whether you give $20 or $1,000.
WE CAN'T DO THIS WITHOUT YOUR HELP. GIVE ALL YOU CAN AFFORD TODAY.
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Safe Streets PAC is registered with the Davidson County Election Commssion and is in compliance with all applicable state laws.
Carey Rogers, Treasurer Tom Grose, Chair.
E-mail us for more info: info@safestreetscampaign.com
If you prefer to pay by check send it to Safe Streets PAC, 1310 Howard Ave., Nashville 37216.
Donations of more than $100 require name, address, job title, and employer. Sorry it's state law.
Think that local politicians listen to bicycle riders?
Who Owns Our Greenways?
Part Trois
The saga continues. The Cooper Administration has taken the lead on the issue of e-bike use of greenway. They organized a sit down with all the “stake holders” including parks, greenways people, BCycle, Walk Bike Nashville, Metro Legal, Downtown Partnership, etc. Metro Legal explained to parks people that class 1 and 2 e-bikes are legal on greenways under current law and have been 2016. This is the first time they had to acknowledge the reality that many of us knew the last five years.
The decision was made to do some kind of “study” to look at peer cities. This should only take a few days with google. They can look at the outcome of the studies done in Austin and Seattle and save a lot of time and money. Initial research indicates that almost all cities allow e-bikes. I’ve looked at over 30 cities and all but one allow e-bikes on trails. Nashville, for once, is in the mainstream of bicycling even though our bike infrastructure is severely lacking (I’m being nice).
The narrow-minded greenways people are still opposed to e-bikes but agreed to the study. The BCycle people, who are entirely too nice, agree to hold off again. The e-bikes from Bird, Spin and Lime will also have to wait, probably until next year. The three companies are now contractors with Metro government a totally different arrangement than in the past when scooters where everywhere.
A resolution was introduced at council by mutual agreement to allow the study. It was totally unnecessary, but I guess it made someone feel better. Although everyone agreed to back off from lobbying the anti-bike group had several councilmembers change the resolution with amendments. It didn’t really matter except the verbiage is a little more anti-bicycle.
The greenways fanatics now know that they will have to bring legislation to ban old people riding e-bikes from “their” greenways. We will have to watch and make sure they don’t try to sneak something through Metro Council. We will have to make sure the study isn’t slanted toward the anti-bike group.
Stay tuned for updates.
Feel free to contact us at info@safestreetscampaign.com
Previous thoughts are here.
Good info from Walk Bike Nashville here.
