Cycling Plan 2020 Open House - How Was it?

I wasn't able to make the open house Saturday.

 

An article in The Trib sounded like there was a good turnout.  

 

How was it?   Did you feel the city was listening to you?

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on December 13, 2011 at 3:10am

Here is a list of all 9 regions and the volunteer coordinators for each region.

http://www.activetrans.org/blog/johnlankford/community-advisory-gro...

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on December 13, 2011 at 3:47am

This particular plan is focusing on developing a more complete bike route network.

Kevin C said:

I got there a little after 2:00 pm. There were a dozen or so maps of regions of the city (Central, Near West, SouthEast, etc.) up on the walls and attendees were invited to make written comments and suggestions on the maps regarding routes; i.e. conditions, needs, and proposed improvements. By the time I arrived, most of the maps were filled with comments. It was just the first open house, so the other aspects of the update to the 2015 plan may be reserved for a future date, but there was no mention of, or forum for, bike parking, transit, education, law enforcement and crash analysis, etc.  

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on December 13, 2011 at 3:50am

Ouch!  That stinks.

Lizzy M. said:

...about the lights at Belmont and Broadway, which is more an out-of-control-auto-traffic issue and less a biking issue. Several months ago, they added a leading pedestrian interval (a moment when all lights are red and the walk signal is Go) to the intersection. After less than a month of the leading pedestrian interval being live, drivers had already adapted to running the red light because they knew there would be no cross traffic. The leading pedestrian interval is now useless and that intersection needs a serious campaign of traffic enforcement. She seemed very surprised to learn that the intersection was so unruly.

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on December 13, 2011 at 3:54am

The process is just getting started.  It's been less than 2 weeks since we had our initial group leaders meeting and started getting smaller local meetings lined up.

For those who are NOT in Jennifer's near west area, her team is ahead of the game in scheduling additional meetings to supplement the big west side meeting happening in January.  Kudos to Jennifer and Raul!  I hope that those of us in other areas of the city can catch up.

h' said:

...get the word out. Kind of feeling like if the outreach about these particular local meetings didn't reach me, they didn't reach a lot of people.
Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on December 13, 2011 at 4:49am

This is really excited.   

To us, since we ride these streets everyday it makes sense that we have very useful input, but I'm not sure if every city administration thinks that.

Who thought a year ago the city would ACTUALLY be asking the public's advice on cycling infrastructure! 

Permalink Reply by Jamais716 on December 13, 2011 at 5:53am

I wasn't able to make the meeting and I'm really excited to see an online survey to be able to contribute to documenting biking conditions on the west side.  Thanks!



Steven Lane said:

I was really impressed with the turnout, more so by how much input was collected, looked like each region's map was thoroughly annotated (Image of West Region below).

I suspect a great deal of Chainlink members live and bike in the West Region. We are collecting input online, please take a few minutes to add your comments. Map of region and Online Survey

Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on December 14, 2011 at 3:44am

How did that process work? It seemed pretty non-transparent and non-open. But I may just missed something?


Michelle Stenzel said:

H, the CDOT team recruited volunteer community leaders from each of 9 city areas to help host smaller meetings within the neighborhoods. 

Permalink Reply by Michelle Gregorek on December 14, 2011 at 8:34am

From what I have seen of the department, I would tend to suspect the same Tony.

Tony Adams said:

How did that process work? It seemed pretty non-transparent and non-open. But I may just missed something?


Michelle Stenzel said:

H, the CDOT team recruited volunteer community leaders from each of 9 city areas to help host smaller meetings within the neighborhoods. 

Permalink Reply by Michelle S on December 14, 2011 at 12:24pm

I’m not sure exactly how other people were recruited. I responded to Active Trans’ call for people to volunteer for their brand new Neighborhood Bikeways Campaign in June, and have been working with them since then, forming a neighborhood bike/peds advocacy group in Lincoln Park/43rd ward, so that may be how my name came up.

 

The good news is there’s lots of work to do for ANYONE who wants to step up their involvement and participation over the next few months, so it’s good to hear of more people eager to contribute.

In addition to supporting and attending the larger citywide meetings that are being put on by the CDOT team, the volunteers are working hard at the following and would love your help, so anyone reading this, please contact your CAG leaders to pitch in however you can: Setting up additional meetings in the local community area; coordinating dates, meeting spaces, supplies, e-mail lists, RSVPs; publicizing the meetings and executing them; compiling information received during the meeting into useable form to submit to the CDOT team.

You can use the links above to figure out which community group you live in, and to find the e-mail addresses of the volunteer leaders in your area. Looking forward to hearing from you!



Tony Adams said:

How did that process work? It seemed pretty non-transparent and non-open. But I may just missed something?


Michelle Stenzel said:

H, the CDOT team recruited volunteer community leaders from each of 9 city areas to help host smaller meetings within the neighborhoods. 

Permalink Reply by Allen Wrench on December 14, 2011 at 3:27pm

It'll have to be a mystery, h'.

or was that h3n3, perhaps!?

h' said:

Thanks, that helps.

So Raul is Allen Wrench?

Feel free to use the Pilsen/Little Village Bicycle Alliance e-mail list, or the chainlink Pilsen/Little Village or South Side groups to get the word out. Kind of feeling like if the outreach about these particular local meetings didn't reach me, they didn't reach a lot of people.

Permalink Reply by jennifer james on December 14, 2011 at 3:33pm

I think it's early days to feel this is "non transparent".  Our meeting tomorrow is one of five in our area. Please feel very welcomed to stop by. We would be very glad to have your help on our CAG if you would like to help us out.  Feel free to email me at this address and I'd be glad to answer any questions that I can about the Mid southwest region. If you need help finding any other region I'm sure that Michelle above or I would be glad to help you find anything that seems difficult to reach. Active Trans also has alot of info on their site about how to reach pretty much everything. There will also be three large scale community meetings in the New Year that are listed on the Streets for Cycling page as well. Jump in. There is plenty of information that  you could share I'm sure! Duppie"s comment carries the link to the Active Trans master page.

Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on December 15, 2011 at 4:09am

It seems non transparent because I'm not seeing an answer to one simple question. I'll rephrase it in case it was not clear:

How did CDOT go about choosing the volunteer leaders?

I am very happy that the City is soliciting input from people who live all over the city. The non Wicker/Lincoln Park areas of the city are woefully under cared-for in terms of bikey infrastructure, so I'm super happy in particular that input is being sought from those regions. I'm grateful for the work of the volunteers, but I'm curious about how they were chosen.


jennifer james said:

I think it's early days to feel this is "non transparent".  Our meeting tomorrow is one of five in our area. Please feel very welcomed to stop by. We would be very glad to have your help on our CAG if you would like to help us out.  Feel free to email me at this address and I'd be glad to answer any questions that I can about the Mid southwest region. If you need help finding any other region I'm sure that Michelle above or I would be glad to help you find anything that seems difficult to reach. Active Trans also has alot of info on their site about how to reach pretty much everything. There will also be three large scale community meetings in the New Year that are listed on the Streets for Cycling page as well. Jump in. There is plenty of information that  you could share I'm sure! Duppie"s comment carries the link to the Active Trans master page.

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