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City Election Guide – 2017 Pt 3: District 5
In 2015, Fort Collins council district 6 was decided by 29 votes. District 5 is in the heart of Fort Collins and is an area undergoing dramatic change: from CSU, to ongoing redevelopment of midtown, to the heart of the Transit Oriented Development overlay. The pressure of growth, congestion, affordability are coming to a head. Candidates for council district 5 shared their vision and...
City Election Guide – 2017 Pt 2: District 3
When Bike Fort Collins reached out to our constituents with a survey last December to better understand your needs and where you live and ride, we found that one area of town was dramatically underrepresented: District 3 (Southeast Fort Collins). At the same time, D3 is also the part of town from which we get the most letters of concern. We hear all the time about speeding on fast arterials with...
City Election Guide – 2017
In the 2015 Fort Collins municipal elections, District 6 (North and Northwest Fort Collins) was decided by a margin of 29 votes. And District 4 was decided by 140 votes. This council has weighed in on a wide array of issues that affect transportation, growth, and affordability in Fort Collins. In particular, Council approved a $400 million city budget that can be read as a statement of values...
February Letter from the ED: We Crushed It
We crushed it. NoCo Bike Show has been dear to my heart since Dan Porter and I dreamed it up 5 or so years ago now. The vision was born of my frustration at how often I was asked to speak on a niche topic within bike culture, and spent a day preparing materials and a slide show and showed up to find single digit crowds waiting, bored half way through my planned hour. I had the idea that...
January Letter from the Executive Director – Results are In
Where to start!? Its been a particularly busy January here at BFCHQ. If you've been pining for the newsletter all month, wondering where the heck we went, well... we kept thinking we had this thing sewn up and then POW, another huge piece of news dropped. Before we dive into survey results below, here's some highlights and some time sensitive items to get on your calendar: NoCo Bike Show is...
Reflections on Jose Piñon
On Friday, there was an article in The Coloradoan about the sentencing of Jose Piñon in the death of local cyclist Steve Studt. Last month, Piñon pled guilty to felony negligent homicide only days before his trial was scheduled to begin. He was sentenced to a short jail stint, a hefty community service requirement, and as a result of his immigrant status and felony plea, he may face an...
December Letter from the Executive Director – Looking Back and Planning Ahead
First of all, I want to apologize for missing our November newsletter. As we mentioned in the newsletter, in October we said a fond farewell to our events/volunteers/marketing/communications/development/membership/advocacy/Bike Share genius Kelly McDonnell. Kelly was truly the heart of Bike Fort Collins over the past few years. Especially since I stepped in, with an ambitious vision that...
Sustainable means Affordable
Over the last couple of months, in my "Letter from the ED" I've leaned pretty heavily on a couple of surprising statistics about the relationship between public safety and city planning. The first, in my September letter, was a traffic fatality study by the National Safety Council that connected the sharp increase in traffic fatalities in the US over the past few years with an increase in the...
October Letter from the ED – We Bike, We Walk, We Vote
I first got directly involved with Bike Fort Collins a little over a year ago, when, after a series of senseless, heartbreaking deaths of Northern Colorado cyclists on local roads, BFC reached out to me to help lead an emergency bike safety town hall. In attendance were council members, traffic engineers, county road engineers, state patrol, the sheriff's office, state senators and over 200...
FC Walks: A Step in the Right Direction
Everyone is a pedestrian. Whether you drive a car, ride a bike, or take a bus, at some point you get off and walk. The walkability of a city has been tied to improved health, increased real estate prices, more money staying within the community, and greater overall resiliency. Studies show that building infrastructure for pedestrians (and for bicyclists) creates more jobs per dollar than...