[MissoulaGov] Committee Update 9-30-09

[Derek Goldman]

Well, I cut a much narrower profile while ON my bike, thus making it easier to dodge all the homeless people on the sidewalk...
Seriously, Rod, I appreciate BID's support for a better bike environment downtown. Really, I do. Likewise, those of us who bike around downtown love it; we are supporters and customers of downtown businesses. 
I guess I'm just frustrated because it seems whenever there is a homeless person, tied-up dog, and now bicycle, or some other inconvenience on the sidewalk, we now get threatened with: "people will stop coming downtown" unless we enact X policy...(eg: your comments in this week's Indy). And that just strikes me as a bit over the top. 
Thanks, Derek


 
 
 



From: raustin at missouladowntownbid.org
To: derekmgold at hotmail.com; jwiener at ci.missoula.mt.us; missoulagov at cmslists.com
Subject: RE: [MissoulaGov] Committee Update 9-30-09
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:36:43 -0600
















Thanks Derek. The Downtown BID is working to create a better
bicycle environment in the downtown and is very supportive of Missoula become
the premier cycle community in the nation. We have collaborated with the
cycling community to get lanes on Higgins as well as putting money up for
addition parking in the downtown that includes the new bike corral on N
Higgins. We are supportive of back-in angle parking for its safety factor for
cyclists as well as motorist. I would like you to walk your cycle on the
sidewalks however. Thanks again.

 

Rod

 

 





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The businesses have nothing to complain
about: Bob's amendment is probably not even really a compromise at all, as I
suspect there are few, if ANY, stretches of downtown sidewalk that span 24 feet
or more between doorways? So, its probably still, in effect, a total ban. 

Now that the homeless, vendors and street musicians are taken care of, BID can
get on with the business of banning bicyclists, dogs, and other undesirables
from the sidewalks...



 

 

 











 		 	   		  
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