The City of St. John’s Cycling Plan needs your help.
According to the Cycling Plan, some of the streets scheduled to have bike lanes painted on them would lose on-street parking on one or both sides. Though they have driveways, the residents of those streets are quite unhappy. A 300-name petition against the bike lanes scheduled for Frecker Drive was tabled at tonight’s city council meeting. It could put a stop to the implementation of the Cycling Plan.
To counter this, MUN BikeShare and The Scope newspaper have set up a petition in support of the Cycling Plan, at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stjohnscyclingplan/ If you support the Cycling Plan, please please take a minute to sign it.
The City’s Parks and Recreation Committee is meeting this Friday afternoon to make some decisions about the Cycling Plan, so we’re hoping to get as many signatures as possible by then. There is more information about the Cycling Plan and its present state at the petition website, specifically in the Links section and in the Blog section.
Thanks so much and happy cycling.
