Building a Bikeable Burlington: Removing Obstacles and Making Real Progress in 2018

A Bike Ride and Public Conversation with DPW Director Chapin Spencer and Parks & Rec Director Cindi Wright

Sunday, November 19, 3-5 PM

co-sponsored by Local Motion and the Burlington Walk-Bike Council

We’ll ride on portions of a proposed bikable network downtown, then head inside for a conversation about both goals and process.  What projects should happen next year?  And what needs to change with DPW’s process so they actually get done?  Share your thoughts and frustrations, and get answers to your questions about how the City will move things forward.

BIKE RIDE DETAILS: Bike ride starts at 3 PM at Local Motion’s office (1 Steele Street, on the Lakeshore Bike Path just north of King Street). Bring your own bike and helmet, plus a lock. Ride will be on city streets across downtown.

MEETING DETAILS: Conversation starts at 4 PM in the “Board Room” of the Lake and College building (60 Lake Street). The Board Room is one floor above Skinny Pancake, one entrance farther north. Enter from Lake Street.

Feel free to join us for the bike ride, the conversation, or both. 

We had a very encouraging meeting with Mayor Miro Weinberger and DPW Director Chapin Spencer on Oct. 24, in which we discussed what did and did not happen in 2017, and what we’d like to see in 2018 (and beyond).  I have attached the minutes from the meeting, since for some reason our website is not working properly right now.  The conversation was so good, and the weather uninviting enough, that we ended up skipping the planned bike ride to check out the new Union St. protected bike lane.  Because there wasn’t much advance notice on the meeting last month, not as many people could attend as wanted to.  So we decided to continue and expand the conversation this coming Sunday, including a proposal for how to get a more complete bikable network downtown in 2018, and to do the ride that we didn’t get to do last time.

Note: this ride and meeting is taking the place of our regular Thursday BWBC meeting this month.