Coffee Hour Recap and a Call to Action
On Wednesday, January 27th at 5pm, a group of 40 residents, local business owners, other stakeholders, and community members gathered at Precision Grind Coffee in Seward to hear a presentation of the plan for the 2016 redesign of the Franklin/Cedar/Minnehaha and give feedback. Bob Byers from Hennepin County Transportation Planning and Kelley Yemen, the County’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator, presented the plan. Thank you to the local businesses, residents, the County, and our local partners who were there to made this event so successfully attended, and Precision Grind for hosting.
For full details on the project, check out this blog written about the plan in full detail.
Bicycle Priority Conversation at the Library
We’re already one month into 2016 and a crucial time has come- to set the advocacy priorities of the Bicycle Coalition for the year. We have some ideas, but we really need your help to decide what exactly we should be focusing on for this next year. There are LOTS of potentially exciting projects in the Minneapolis biking sphere, which is why we need to narrow them down and work on the ones that you view as the most important. From protected bikeway routes, to other biking infrastructure such as greenways, to priorities of low income people who bike, policy at the state and local level, and finally winter maintenance.
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