That's really awesome. Bob. Do you have any work product (documents, planning strategies, etc) that you could share or post on the wiki? I'm sure many people reading this would be interested in the "hows" of your story also.

Thanks, and keep up the good work!

josh.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Bob Giordano <mist@strans.org> wrote:
Fellow community shops,

We have been working on a good bikable community since our inception in
1996.  We could not in good conscious work on getting more people on bikes
without working on city design and street issues.

We have had success: changing 4-lane roads to 3-lane roads and putting in
bike lanes in the reclaimed space, getting _single lane_ roundabouts
instead of stop lights, narrowing 12' travel lanes to 10' which often
helps get in bike lanes, changing parking lanes to bike lanes, connecting
urban trails and increasing transit for instance.

Current projects include getting a downtown 'piazza' or car-free plaza,
switching asphalt to pine resin or other alternative for bike walk trails,
and- the hardest- working to stop a couple major roadway expansions and
instead going with bike/walk/transit solutions.  Our website and youtube
channel has much more info.  thanks.

Good bikes + good riders + good roads = bikable community.

--
Bob Giordano
Free Cycles Missoula 541.7284
Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation
www.strans.org, mist@strans.org, 406.880.6834


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