From Queen City Bike via Mobo Bicycle Co-Op

All you people living in Cincinnati please step up to the plate and take action on this:

Your help is urgently needed to make a step change to improve bicycling in Cincinnati! The window is short - days, not weeks - so please do not delay!
We need to start a BIKE QUAKE at City Hall. In October, Queen City Bike led 125 bicyclists to City Hall to urge the to city place a greater priority on bicycling as part of making our city more livable. We need you to act now to make sure our elected officials seize the historic opportunity they have been given by President-elect Obama to move the city ahead quickly and make up for years of neglect!
Please send an e-mail today to the Mayor and each City Council member urging them to:
1) Adequately fund a NEW BICYCLE PLAN for the city in the City Budget for 2009/2010.
2) Ensure that bicycle lanes and other on-street accommodations for bicycles are included in the Mayor's Main Street Economic Recovery Plan projects that have been prepared for President-elect Barack Obama.
Below is a short example e-mail message for you to copy, modify as you see fit, and send. A little personalization is good, but keep it brief. Please send your e-mail separately to each member rather than just copying them all on a single message. Let us know you've taken action by forwarding a copy to me as well.
E-mail addresses and phone numbers follow the sample message.
-Gary Wright
PS: If you do not have time to call or e-mail each one, please contact the Mayor's office and at least one City Council member. Get your friends to do this too. Our strength is our passion and our numbers. Show them that we're the wave of the future in this city and region.
PPS: Want to start a BIKE QUAKE for change in Newport, Covington, Loveland, Wyoming, or elsewhere? Contact me--Queen City Bike is your organization, too!
Gary Wright Queen City Bike
www.QueenCityBike.com http://mobobicyclecoop.org/
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Dear [Mayor Mallory or Council Member X];
President-elect Obama has provided the City with a once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild the city for the future and improve our environment. Bicycles are rapidly becoming an important alternative means of transportation everywhere in the country. I urge you to take two actions now to ensure that Cincinnati is not left behind.
1) Funds to prepare a Bicycle Master Plan for the City of Cincinnati have been included in the City Budget. The Bicycle Master Plan for the City was last updated over 30 years ago in 1976. We cannot afford to fall further behind other cities in our region like Columbus, Louisville, and Pittsburgh who have made bicycles a priority. Please let me know that you support providing adequate funding for the Bicycle Plan in the 2009/2010 budget.
2) The City's infrastructure proposals that have been prepared for President-elect Obama include millions of dollars for infrastructure spending. Let's make sure that we are building for the future and not paving over yesterday's mistakes by seizing this moment to make a step change in the City's on-street bicycle facilities. The best time to add bicycle lanes and sharrows to our street is while they are being repaved, not after. $60 million has been included in the Mayor's Main Street Economic Recovery plan proposals for a street repair program, but bicycle facilities on those streets have not been included. Please modify these plans to set aside at least 1% of these funds for on-street bike lanes and other bike accommodations. In one stroke, the City can catch up from decades of neglect.
I want to see more bicycles on the street in every neighborhood in our city. Your bold leadership now is needed to make that happen.
I look forward to your response,
Sincerely,
[Your name]
cc; Queen City Bike [It will let them know you are an active supporter of change for a better city!] ******** E-mail addresses - CUT AND PASTE into your e-mail program ************

Your help is urgently needed to make a step change to improve bicycling in Cincinnati! The window is short - days, not weeks - so please do not delay!
We need to start a BIKE QUAKE at City Hall. In October, Queen City Bike led 125 bicyclists to City Hall to urge the to city place a greater priority on bicycling as part of making our city more livable. We need you to act now to make sure our elected officials seize the historic opportunity they have been given by President-elect Obama to move the city ahead quickly and make up for years of neglect!
Please send an e-mail today to the Mayor and each City Council member urging them to:
1) Adequately fund a NEW BICYCLE PLAN for the city in the City Budget for 2009/2010.
2) Ensure that bicycle lanes and other on-street accommodations for bicycles are included in the Mayor’s Main Street Economic Recovery Plan projects that have been prepared for President-elect Barack Obama.
Please send your e-mail separately to each member rather than just copying them all on a single message. Let us know you’ve taken action by forwarding a copy to me as well.
PS: If you do not have time to call or e-mail each one, please contact the Mayor’s office and at least one City Council member. Get your friends to do this too. Our strength is our passion and our numbers. Show them that we’re the wave of the future in this city and region.

Mayor Mark Mallory mark.mallory@cincinnati-oh.gov
Council Members
Jeff Berding jeff.berding@cincinnati-oh.gov
Chris Bortz chris.bortz@cincinnati-oh.gov
David Crowley david.crowley@cincinnati-oh.gov
Y. Laketa Cole laketa.cole@cincinnati-oh.gov
John Cranley mailto:Cranleyjohn.cranley@cincinnati-oh.gov
Roxanne Qualls roxanne.qualls@cincinnati-oh.gov
Cecil Thomas cecil.thomas@cincinnati-oh.gov
Chris Monzell chris.monzel@cincinnati-oh.gov
Lesley Ghiz leslie.ghiz@cincinnati-oh.gov