Work has been busy. Hence the lack of posts. I went to the bicycle open house last week. In general, it was a good effort on the part of the Minneapolis bicycle program to engage the community’s input in the writing of the Bicycle Master Plan. This is an update on the 2001 plan. The format of the open house was the same presentation, given by Don Pflaum, presented three times over the course of three and a half hours. It was then followed by Q&A. In addition, around the room there were a lot of poster boards with different draft elements of the new master plan, along with maps. Post-it notes were provided, and participants were encouraged to walk around, read what was on the poster boards, and provide their comments on post-its.
Personally, I found it a little bit overwhelming to digest, especially in a setting where you’re interacting with and talking to people, so I didn’t leave many comments, though I plan to email my comments to Don. For those of you who also found this a bit overwhelming, I am going to post the main documents on which people were asked to comment so that you have them electronically. Once I figure out how to do this, that is.
