Do you want to see more automobile traffic in Madison, more traffic congestion, more air pollution, more car/car, car/pedestrian and car/bicyclist crashes, more neighborhood isolation? Fine. Then you need not attend the next City of Madison Transit and Parking Commission (TPC) meeting. You can just sit back and allow the City of Madison's bus service to decline further and further, until the Mayor of Madison and the City's Common Council of Alderpersons have no choice but to eliminate the service.
But if you are concerned about too many motor vehicles already being on Madison's streets and thoroughfares, too many air quality health advisories, too many auto safety conflicts, too much neighborhood isolation, too much global warming, than you might want to attend Tuesday's (Mar. 14) TPC meeting, starting at 5:00 PM in Rm. 260 of the Municipal Building on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., and make your allotted 3-minute testimony in front of the TPC members, the people who ultimately must endorse Madison Metro's proposed service cuts, which are being proposed in lieu of Madison Metro and the City of Madison making any serious attempt to promote greater use of its mass transit system. For those of you who have fast network connections and are interested in previewing Metro's current route restructure proposal, you can watch the streaming video of Colin Conn's presentation at the last Transportation and Parking Commission. Connect to the video at <http://www.mcc12.tv/tpc.html#archive>. The meeting date was 2/14/06. The presentation on the route restructure begins at about 27:45 and goes through minute 56:00 or so. It's pretty dense so I highly recommend looking at it and thinking about it beforehand so you have the chance to formulate questions and comments. Details of the proposals have yet to be posted on Metro's website, but meeting times and locations are: 7 PM on Tuesday, March 7 TDS Building; 525 Junction Road - First Floor Hosted by Wexford Village Homeowners Association 6:15 PM on Wednesday, March 8 The Neighborhood House; 29 South Mills Street Hosted by Greenbush Neighborhood Association 8 PM on Wednesday, March 8 The Dudgeon Center Library in back of building; 3200 Monroe St. Hosted by Dudgeon Monroe Neighborhood Association 7 PM on Tuesday, March 21 The Harambee Center; 2202 South Park Street Hosted by the Bay Creek, Brams Addition and Burr Oaks Neighborhood Associations 7 PM on Wednesday, March 22 West High Library (LMC); 30 Ash Street Hosted by Regent Neighborhood Association 1 PM on Sunday, March 26 Midvale Lutheran Church; 4329 Tokay Boulevard Hosted by Westmorland Neighborhood Association 6:00 PM on Sunday, March 26 Casa Bianca; 515 Junction Road Hosted by Junction Ridge Neighborhood Association 6:00 PM on Monday, March 27 Grainger Hall, Room 1100 UW Madison, 975 University Avenue Hosted by UW Madison 6:45 PM on Tuesday, March 28 Sequoia Library; Midvale Plaza; 513 South Midvale Boulevard Hosted by Midvale Heights Neighborhood Association 6:30 PM on Wednesday, March 29 LaFollette High School; 702 Pflaum Road Hosted by Aldermanic Districts 15 & 16 7 PM on Wednesday, April 5 Alicia Ashman Library; 733 North High Point Road Hosted by Greystone Neighborhood Association 6:30 PM on Thursday, April 6 Zimbrick Community Room; 1601 West Beltline Highway Hosted by Arbor Hills Neighborhood Association http://www.mymetrobus.com/ServiceChangeProposals/ServiceChangeDateMeeting sFLYER.pdf Mike Neuman "80% of life is just showing up" --Woody Allen _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
