Pete,
You are right to call for statewide bike advocacy on this, but
unfortunately, you are howling into the wind. BFW's managerial staff
stopped monitoring or participating on this list some months ago.
-Mike
At 11:23 AM -0600 1/9/08, Peter Taglia wrote:
On the subject of trees and biking, there is a recommendation from
the Governor's Global Warming Task Force to encourage greater tree
planting in urban areas. I just made the connection between this
recommendation and the potentially huge traffic calming effect that
greater trees would have along urban roads. The Wisconsin Urban
Forestry Council is proposing a "20 million by 2020" initiative that
would add 20 million urban trees and preserve the estimated 27
million already in the state.
http://dnr.wi.gov/environmentprotect/gtfgw/templates/FA_urban_forestry.pdf
I live near Proudfit Street, which runs between West Wash and John
Nolen Drive (turning into N. Shore Drive by the Brittingham Boat
House. This street is also highway 151 and is very busy, but the
mature locust trees in the median and terraces greatly minimize what
would otherwise be an ugly street with faster traffic. I believe
the traffic calming benefits, and by extension the bicycle and ped
benefits, of trees have been well-established, even by the staid
engineers at AASHTO?
While the public comment period is over, there are many more
recommendations concerning bicycles either directly or, as shown
above, indirectly. Hans and others on this list have been involved
in the process and pushing bikes, but the Bike Fed has been notably
absent. The Governor's Task Force has not gotten a lot of
mainstream press, but the breadth of the stakeholder groups involved
is large and the meetings are notable for the high-level decision
makers who are paying attention (e.g., legislators, secretary of the
DNR, lead staff from the PSC, CEOs of power companies, etc.). I
would love it if a bicycle advocacy group in Wisconsin paid more
attention to the opportunities of forums like the task force to
"push bikes"....
Pete
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