Robbie & Al (Brenda, you still hangin' out here?),
You & a whole slew of other progressive local pols are featured in
bright lights as supporters of Mark Miller from his Nov 29, 2007
fundraiser. Maybe you could help us lowly peons out here and contact
his office to ask him why he would do this to us.
Until supporters--particularly other electeds--begin holding the
bigwig electeds' feets to the fire, we won't get anywhere.
-Mike
At 1:49 PM -0600 2/6/08, Robbie Webber wrote:
According to my brief look at the current bike conditions along that
portion of 51, it looks to me like they at least need a frontage
road, path, or other pedestrian/bike accommodations. Because of the
lake, Cherokee Marsh, and the airport, there are no decent N-S
routes until you get to Portage Rd, which is pretty far east if you
are on the west side of 51.
The MPO adopted Complete Streets language in it's latest Long Range
Transportation Plan, so this project should have some
accommodations. I would say that a parallel path, similar to what
was built along Hwy 12, should be included. That would vastly
improve the bike-ability of that area.
Ann -
When is this scheduled for construction? Unfortunately, I believe
that DeForest is not part of the MPO, so we won't have as much
influence as if we were funding it. But at the very least, you could
use the "community standards" or Community Sensitive Design argument
to get ped/bike accommodations.
Let me know if I can help in an MPO capacity.
Robbie
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