From the Yellow Bike Project:

This Thursday, May 21st, Austin City Council will hold a public hearing on the 2009 update to Austin’s Bicycle Master Plan.  The update outlines a long-term strategy for making cycling a safer and more viable mode of transportation in Austin.  We need to be there, because those who are against it most certainly will.  Here’s what you can do:

Show up to the hearing.
The public hearings section of Thursday’s council meeting begins at 6:00pm.  Go to City Hall (301 W. 2nd st.), pass through security, and head to the southwest corner of the main lobby.  The Bike Plan hearing is fourth on the agenda, and will definitely not happen before 6pm.  If you’re afraind you might miss it, come out anyway.
Group rides to City Hall leave from:
-Bouldin Creek Coffee House (1501 S. 1st) at 5:30 pm
-Treasure City Thrift (E. 12th & Salina) at 5:30 pm
-Epoch Coffee (221 W. North Loop) at 5:15 pm

If you can’t make it,
go to City Hall any time between now and the hearing.  Go through security and ask to use one of the computer kiosks in the main lobby.  You’ll need the update’s item number, which is 61 PH.  Locate the item and sign up for or against it.

Other ways to contact the City Council:

1. Send an email to the City Council

Write the council now at http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/council/groupemail.htm

2. Send a copy of that e-mail to City staff.

Copy your Email to council before you send it and email the same as a cc: to important city staff:
annick.beaudet@ci.austin.tx.us; rob.spillar@ci.austin.tx.us;
howard.lazarus@ciaustin.tx.us;michael.curtis@ci.austin.tx.us

3. Call the City Council

If you have the time, a phone call would help as well. Here’s the contact info for all the council members. They all serve at-large so you can call any of them or all of them.

Mayor Will Wynn- (512) 974-2250

Place 1 Councilmember Lee Leffingwell- (512) 974-2260

Place 2 Councilmember Mike Martinez- (512) 974-2264

Place 3 Councilmember Randi Shade- (512) 974-2255

Place 4 Councilmember Laura Morrison- (512) 974-2258

Place 5 Councilmember Brewster McCracken- (512) 974-2256

Place 6 Councilmember Sheryl Cole- (512) 974-2266

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