The golf cart taxi company Capital Cruisers will be on the agenda at the Urban Transportation Commission meeting on Tuesday. Our first story on this a few weeks ago has generated quite a bit of conversation between the golf cart proponents and pedicab drivers.
If you’re interested in coming and putting your two cents in on the subject, here’s your first chance to do so. And even if you aren’t, come anyway because this will be another chance to look at the city’s proposed new bike plan before it goes to the city council!
Urban Transportation Commission Meeting
Austin City Hall, 301 w. 2nd Street (map)
6pm-9pm
on Apr 14th, 2009 at 9:17 am
The key is NOT more planning; the key is more backbone. Get city council candidates to tell you why they allowed parking-on-both-sides instead of critical bike lanes on Shoal Creek last time, and why you can trust them to make the right decision next time.
It’s very easy to claim to be in favor of bicycles (and puppies!). It’s cost-free; and meaningless; and you can get a lot of your political troublemakers tied up in writing plans instead of bugging you at council meetings.
It’s also very easy to ignore all that stuff and vote in favor of reactionaries at the neighborhood level when interests conflict. Or to vote in favor of projects like Seaholm instead of the better Pfluger bridge extension. Basically, every time any other interest conflicted with the interests of transportation cyclists, the City Council chose the other guys – and a new plan does nothing to change that other than make you waste your energy where it does precisely zero good.
So maybe when the plan comes up for a vote this time, maybe actually have the guts to bring up the times in the past where the plan precisely and clearly said exactly what should happen and the City Council decided to do something different anyways. Ask them why we should trust that it’ll be different this time around.