#independenceDay thought about #FreeRangeKids: Can we just put one of those chalk markers on every kid's #bike and give them an unlimited supply of chalk? Then your #transportation dept can follow them around with cones, and viola you have a complete and connected #bikewayNetwork. To get out of the #carSupremacy rut, start with at least one car-free day per month and give the kids bikes + lessons if they need them.
The #Portland Bureau of #Transportation (#PBOT) spends over $2M per DAY to watch cars turn our streets into gravel and re-apply yellow centerline paint. We can absolutely afford to stop doing that for a day and give kids #pdxBikes
Follow the #KidicalMassPDX hashtag to stay tuned for more rides and also LMK if you're into doing the facebook group, emails, website, flyers, whatevers. Also some #BikeBus organizing coming at the SE KMpdx ride in August, with @bikeloudpdx. #pdxBikes
re: why #Portland can't have nice things: The trick is to make each "ride your bike in relatively car-free safety" event an expensive optional line-item requiring lots of money for "traffic control", but frame as unavoidable the $2M+/day we spend letting cars have free reign of the entire system for the other 362 days.