In just 2 days, 1,000 people have signed the petition for The Tito Bradshaw Memorial Bikeway on E Houston, and 8,000 emails have gone out to 8 city officials. We are demanding action! As a result of these emails, I received a message from the Director of Transportation & Capital Improvements (TCI) expressing his condolences and agreeing to meet. He also shared the news that two weeks ago, City Council approved $21 million for dedicated bike facilities, and to update the City’s Bike Master Plan. He encouraged us to provide feedback on what we want prioritized in the FY2020 budget. Please take the survey at www.SASpeakUp.com. View all surveys here.
This was my response. We appreciate your efforts to update the bike master plan, but once it is updated we need to implement it. San Antonio is good at creating plans to increase street safety, but not as good at implementing them. We are a highly creative and technologically advanced society, we can easily make it so we don’t have to fear for our lives just to get from a to b.
BikeSanAntonio | Apr 4,2019
This is Lydia’s comment to the email: So much money has been spent on plans that sit on the shelf. I worked at the MPO for 8 years (1/2005-5/2013) and have been following the process as an advocate since 2013. I cannot count (tooooo many) the times it has been promised that plans will be implemented.
I do believe that that is one of the reasons people have no interest in going to public meetings. I am as passionate about improving the situation for people who ride bikes as anyone; however, after trying to improve things since February 2005, when I hear someone at your level say there’s going to be another plan I just shake my head and say here we go again.
You have staff who have master degrees in urban planning. They don’t need a new plan. They just need authorization to IMPLEMENT existing plans: Bicycle Master Plan, VisioZero stuff that is out there, SA 2020, and countless community/neighborhood plans.
So, please, don’t tease us with another plan. It’s just rhetoric/propaganda that we continue to hear over and over again.