My recollections are that while Boulder had constructed a physical system to facilitate city-wide bike use with minimal automobile encounters, except for the Boulder Creek corridor out to the University and the north-south downtown/univ routes, the rest of the system was sparsely used, and the encounters between cyclists and motorists were nasty, brutish, and short. What's changed?

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Rich Points <rich@richpoints.com> wrote:
Collectives,
As you may know the League of American Bicyclists recently awarded Boulder the platinum level for bicycle friendliness.  This prompted Clarence Eckerson Jr from Street Films to come out and document our wonderful bike system.

http://communitycycles.org/media/24-2008-media/139-december-5-2008-boulder-goes-bike-platinum.html

And take note that even though we've achieved the platinum level we know we still have a long way to go.

In solidarity

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