As the mayor said, “we didn’t hit a home-run, but we’re on base.”

There is a ‘process’ to evaluate certain changes, like bike lanes, improved crosswalks and narrower lanes. It won’t be perfect, but it can be better than the current design. I have a longer post about this at MyWHaT.

As a busy citizen who works full time and volunteers in the community, when I travel around town I usually want to take the quickest route–to make the best use of my valuable time. This is true whether I am riding my bike, which I do frequently, or traveling via automobile. Connecting the dots by piecing together sections of the TART trail and the cross town bicycle route to get to my destination just does not cut it. If 8th Street is the route I’d take by car, it’s probably also the route I want to take with my bicycle. I look forwarding to hearing the outcome of the MDOT conversation and hope we are able to do the 8th Street renovation in such as to benefit all methods of transportation.