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Your help needed on Grand Parkway - 2008/08/25 05:00 We want bicycle accommodations!


Cyclists,

BikeHouston and Sustainable Living, a new environmental organization based in Cypress, are in the process of engaging the Harris County Toll Road Authority concerning possible bicycle facilities along the Grand Parkway Segment E and other corridors. Segment E is planned to run from I-10 to US290 approximately along the Katy-Hockley Road alignment, which is prime NW Harris County cycling territory.

Currently, nothing in the way of bicycle facilities is planned for Grand Parkway. It would go in very much like the existing Beltway 8 Tollway if nothing changes, with nothing in the design to help cyclists or pedestrians.


I am asking you to do four things soon:

1. Click HERE to sign this online petition right now

2. Before September 15, send a postal letter to the Harris County Toll Road Authority. Boilerplate text provided below, but please do customize the letter with your own language, anecdotes, or statement about how you would use the proposed facility (or how the lack of such a facility would detract from your life)

3. Contact me privately if you want to help by attending a meeting in the near future

4. Forward this to every cyclist you know who rides out in the area of the Grand Parkway Segment E, which is West and Nortthwest Harris County

Thank you.


Sincerely,
Peter Wang, LCI


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Mr. Peter Key
Deputy Director
Harris County Toll Road Authority
330 Meadowfern Drive
Houston, TX 77067


Dear Mr. Key:

I am a bicyclist and a pedestrian, and I am in favor of improving bicycle & pedestrian access along the future Grand Parkway segments, specifically:

1. Pedestrian crosswalks and signals at every signalized intersection along the access roads

2. Removal of barriers - Full ADA compliance for all paths. Every bridge that goes in as part of the access roads also has an ADA-compliant path alongside traffic lanes, so that bridges do not become barriers

3. Wide, bi-directional, paved multi-use paths (8 ft wide) for pedestrians, future transit users, runners, children, the elderly, beginner bicyclists, roller-bladers, and wheelchair users, on both sides of the Grand Parkway access road

4. Designated bike lanes, shoulders, or wide outside lanes greater than 14 feet wide on the Grand Parkway access road, which will improve safety and efficiency for future bus operations along the corridor, and for experienced bicyclists and large group bicycle rides (after all, the Grand Parkway will cut through prime pre-MS150 training territory)

Please help make the Grand Parkway a "Complete Street" for all users. Thank you.





Sincerely,

Your name and signature
Your Texas County of Residence
(I am / I am not) a Harris County Tollroad system user

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Re:Your help needed on Grand Parkway - 2008/09/04 22:32 I see no value at all in having any kind of bike lane alongside the Grand Parkway. I ride 6,000 miles a year mostly west of Houston and I cannot imagine anyone wanting to ride recreationally alongside a busy highway. Our efforts should be concentrated elsewhere.
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Re:Your help needed on Grand Parkway - 2008/09/04 22:59 Well, that's your opinion and you're welcome to it. But when you say "our efforts", you really mean "my efforts" since I'm handling this single-handedly... so I'll put my efforts where I see fit, thank you.
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Re:Your help needed on Grand Parkway - 2008/09/05 16:13 "Well, that's your opinion and you're welcome to it."

Of course it is and of course I am. Any idea of a bike way alongside the Grand Parkway would be a waste of money and a waste of resources. Any funds available would be much better spent on other bike related uses.

And as for your time - well, aren't you doing it just to get attention?
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Re:Your help needed on Grand Parkway - 2008/09/05 16:30 "Any funds available would be much better spent on other bike related uses."

This would hopefully be entirely new funding from the toll road authority, not available for other bike uses.

"And as for your time - well, aren't you doing it just to get attention?"

Ask BikeHouston members and board members about what I do for this biking community.

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Re:Your help needed on Grand Parkway - 2008/09/05 21:13 Oh dear me, I didn't realise you were so important.
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