As you probably know, Mayor Coleman is hosting a giant town hall meeting at the Greater Columbus Convention Center to gather ideas and desires for what we want to see in Columbus by the 2012 bicentennial. Here’s what the Dispatch had for Transportation in today’s paper:
10,000 desires recorded for city
More bicentennial proposals sought
Monday, January 28, 2008 3:09 AM
By Robert Vitale
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH…Transportation
“Encourage less car driving, more public transportation, more bike trails and walking trails.”
Where are we? The city has 46 miles of trails and 4 miles of bike lanes on streets.
What’s the prognosis? The city will decide this year whether to build a Downtown streetcar line. A draft study published in December recommends 99 miles of new trails and 400 miles of new bike lanes. Cost: $73 million.
I was curious to see if any of our readers had good ideas. Feel free to share them here.
Registration is now closed. Glad to see a big turnout. Apparently local radio WCRS is covering the event and they may air some of it on Wednesday at 4:30. (WCRS 102.1 & 98.3 fm.)
Hopefully there will be a podcast or video of this on youtube. I have tried to watch video from city council meetings before, and it was a pain trying to figure out when the video would be re-aired on their channel.
Here is the 2012 Summit official page on “Moving People.” http://www.columbus.gov/columbus2012/Commission2012/13Commissions/focus_area_13.html
I really hope that there is lots of attention/votes/talk about better transportation for Central Ohio. (Not car stuff.) Perhaps that will show the politicians that we the public support it and they can *ahem* move forward.
Here’s a wiki someone (not me) setup for ideas. http://columbus2012.wetpaint.com/
Tonight’s the night folks!!! Let’s let the mayor know how important better transit (streetcars, bikeways, pedestrian centered developments) is to Columbus!!!!!