Dear GCC members, as Carrie pointed out,thanks to the county Commissioners Baird, Byerly,Long, Delaney, and Pinkerson, the  Multimodal Transportation Mitigation Program was voted in unaniously . This program includes encouraging the use of bicycles and non-private auto means of transportation. Hopefully it will also decrease our urban sprawl. It's a great day for bicycling. We hope that our GCC member Steve L. can inform us on the program at the next commuters group meeting. The MTMP was ecouraged by GCC members who attended meetings and workshops, spoke before the commission several times, and also met individually with each commissioner. We owe the commissioners some thanks and also some help with the hard part of implementing the program- something we all could support.

 

Also exciting news comes from the lobbying efforts of Carol Short who visited the legislature to advocate for cycling. She is very excited about the statewide efforts to encourage cycling and recommends that we should be members of the Fl Bike Association. We will be hearing more of her exciting news soon!  

 

Safe cycling, Jim Funk  Commuter Group