You may have read that a consortium of local communities, Dane County,
and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, submitted applications for
Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) or University status last week
(http://host.madison.com/news/local/focus-on-dane-county-middleton-sun-prairie-aim-to-join/article_04199919-d0ce-591b-bed4-0a028f6e7f74.html).
These applications will be reviewed by staff of the national League of
American Bicyclists over the next few months, and the League needs our help.
"Local reviewers" are used by the League to verify the claims made in
the applications and identify additional improvements that the
communities and universities could make. We need local reviewers in
Dane County who know about bicycling conditions in Fitchburg, Madison,
Middleton, Monona, Sun Prairie, and Verona, as well as Dane County as a
whole and UW-Madison. I've previously reviewed the 2012 application for
Fitchburg and the 2014 application for Monona. (I wasn't involved in
writing or submitting either application.) It takes a few hours over a
few weeks to thoughtfully and promptly respond to the League's
questionnaire. I signed up tonight to do it again, and it takes five
minutes to sign up.
Please consider helping. Go to
http://bikeleague.org/content/become-local-reviewer to read about the
program and follow the link there to sign up. Do it now!
The deadline to sign up for this cycle, to evaluate our Dane County
communities, is tomorrow, August 16, 2015 midnight Eastern!
Those of us who have submitted applications will thank you!
--
Steve Arnold, Mayor
2530 Targhee Street, Fitchburg, Wisconsin 53711-5491
Telephone +1 608 278 7700 · Facsimile +1 608 278 7701
[email protected] · http://Arnold.US
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