15 Feb 2011 |
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In January, we started a community conversation about encouraging biking and walking. Many, many ideas have been generated and I will summarize these in this blog post. Most exciting to me is the way someone’s eyes light up and I can very nearly see the gears of their brain turning as they start to consider how to make our towns bike and pedestrian friendly. The enthusiasm is infectious. What we now need are two major things: 1) help in naming our initiative and 2) help implementing some of these programs. Please read on and put your naming ideas in the comment box below or send them to bike@greentownlosaltos.org.
The ideas for the bike/walk initiative generally fall into one of the following four categories:
In the Fun Events category, ideas include:
Residents have proposed many ideas to generate awareness of and incentivize biking and walking as an alternative to driving in cars. These include:
Suggested educational events might include:
And, lastly, many residents have suggested that we request support from our cities to provide services such as:
These are just some of the ideas that have been generated since we started this conversation. What other ideas do you have? What should we call this initiative? Can you help us get it moving? Comment below or contact us at bike@greentownlosaltos.org.
KJ