Look, my point is, if planners did not go out of their way to enlist the
support of Fred Risser, then they missed an opportunity and likely made a
tactical error. So, they weren't invited or were discouraged from attending a
meeting ! What's wrong with an office visit or phone call. Seems like a blunder
viewing it as a relative outsider.
On Feb 9, 2016, Peter Gray via Bikies <bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:
>I just sent this email. Thank you Grant Foster for finding the SCERB
>purpose in WI state statutes.
>
>Feel free to borrow from this in writing your own email.
>
>Peter
>
>==================================
>
>To:
>sen.ris...@legis.state.wi.us,
>sen.ol...@legis.wisconsin.gov,
>sen.r...@legis.wisconsin.gov,
>rep.b...@legis.wisconsin.gov,
>rep.loudenb...@legis.wisconsin.gov,
>rep.hesselb...@legis.wisconsin.gov
>
>Subject: Disappointed by SCERB veto of contra-flow lane on Mifflin St.
>
>Just want to express disappointment in SCERB's vote against a bicycle
>contra-flow lane on Mifflin St. alongside the Capitol building in
>Madison.
>
>I understand that Madison city planners were discouraged from attending
>SCERB's recent meeting, and thus were not able to explain the
>contra-flow
>lane and why it is needed. This traffic engineering decision seems
>outside
>SCERB's expertise and purpose "to direct the continuing and consistent
>maintenance of the property, decorative furniture and furnishings of
>the
>capitol and executive residence."
>
>Currently, people ride bicycles on the Mifflin Street sidewalk on
>Capitol
>Square because there isn't a safer and more convenient way for them to
>cross the Square eastbound between State Street and East Mifflin, two
>heavily used bicycle corridors. A contra-flow lane would have addressed
>this issue.
>
>I hope SCERB will reconsider this wrong call.
>
>Thank you,
>Peter Gray
>[street address, city]
>
>On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Paul T. O'Leary via Bikies <
>bikies@lists.danenet.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2016/02/09 07:43, Robbie Webber via Bikies wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It should be noted that City of Madison staff were not allowed to
>testify
>>> or even attend the meeting where the vote was taken, so no
>"convincing" was
>>> possible.
>>>
>>> And Fred is not a transportaron bicyclist. He only rides
>recreationally.
>>>
>>>
>>> Second point is underscored by the Senator's reference, multiple
>times,
>> to "against traffic". Um, NO, Senator, use of a counterflow lane is
>not
>> "against" traffic; it IS traffic. If the "against traffic" argument
>were
>> valid, there wouldn't be so many counterflow lanes in use today,
>including
>> several around the Square. The unfortunate thing is, Sen. Risser is
>> probably seen as "the bike guy" on this committee, making this an
>even
>> harder ship to turn around.
>>
>> Re. testifying/attending the meeting, isn't that at the very least a
>> violation of the open meetings law? Shouldn't any citizen have been
>allowed
>> to testify, or at least attend?
>>
>> --
>> Paul T. O'Leary
>> Chronic Nuisance
>> Madison, WI USA
>>
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