City More on the Bike Program Changes
posted by on January 31 at 15:00 PM
The Bike Seattle blog has a detailed explanation of popular city bike coordinator Peter Lagerwey’s recent demotion, which I’ve written about before. Check it out. Lagerwey’s demotion, which was accompanied by the reassignment of fellow bike advocate Pauh Wang to the city’s sign shop (way down on Airport Way; a huge fuck-you from Mayor Nickels and transportation department head Grace Crunican), is causing nationwide ripples, with bike advocates from here to D.C. wondering what the hell SDOT was thinking. Lagerwey’s replacement, Megan Hoyt, is an engineer and expert on pedestrian issues with no previous experience in advocating for bikers’ interests.
Nobody cares, actually. Doesn't mean anything.
Meanwhile, here's the bike coordinator for the flat, warm, road debris-free city of Los Angeles, where almost no one rides a bike (yet).
http://www.latimes.com/la-me-bicycle2jan02,0,1097586.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines
Sounds like more of Mayor McCheese's micro-managing my-way-or-the-highway (tunnel?) bullshit. He's done hardly a thing for cyclists in 5 years.
Didn't we just vote in a bunch of money for bicycle transportation facilitation? I thought it was too much but I did vote for it. Sounds like someone is going against the mandate.
It means something to me! I'm paying that damn property tax for road maintenance, you know, the one that was sold as "More bicycle lanes!"
OOOPs. Reading your linked article from Bikeseattle I see that this personnel infighting is a little more complex than you make it appear in your 2nd post on this issue. The bikeseattle makes it sound like maybe there was more of a mandate to support the master plan currently on the table and throw anyone overboard who would create more process.
But truth: I wish I hadn't commented in the first place.
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