Advocacy Alert - Saint Edward State Park

[juice]

Fellow bikers,

Your presence is needed at two public meetings this week to provide input on land reclassification at Saint Edward State Park.

Thursday, November 9 at 6:30 PM
sign up: http://bbtc.org/recreation/calendar.php?event_id=4828

Saturday, November 11 at 11:00 AM
sign up: http://bbtc.org/recreation/calendar.php?event_id=4829

It is important that you show up and voice your support for ongoing trail access for mountain bikes. Right now it's just important that we pull big numbers in support of bikes. This is needed to put us in a strong position for when we negotiate policy details with the other user groups.

I've created a web page with a summary of the situation. This page can be found by clicking the 'Advocacy' tab on the BBTC site.
http://bbtc.org/php/show_page.php?page_id=190

Please show up and tell everyone you know. Numbers are key.

Sincerely,
Justin Vander Pol
BBTC Executive Director
206-524-2900
justin@bbtc.org

[RhinofromWA]

Justin,

I should be able to make the Sat meeting. I don't know if I could make the Thursday meeting.

Kevin Dahlen

[bibs]

Ill be working during both!! damn!

[juice]

Hey everyone - the first meeting is tonight at 6:30 and the second is Saturday at 11.

We're ahead of the ball on this one and are poised to preserve mountain bike trail access at the park.

See you there!

[Skookum]

Just want everyone who's not in the know. From what i gathered this meeting went well and was attended by many many people who were pro biking. It's almost twighlight zone how well things are going at St. Edwards. The powers that be seem to be very welcoming to keeping the trails open to bikes with both proposed plans.

Congrats to us as users making great progress in being good recreational stewards. Because i think 10 years ago under the same meeting, things might have gone the other way, with anti-biking agendas being brought from illogical points of view.

There is a proposed trail that would go down to Lake Washington if we score an absolute touchdown on this. That'd be pretty cool, i might actually show up and ride over there more than once every 5 years.:)

So if you're in the neighborhood up there, show up and say your for biking trails. There are other State Parks that are open to mt. biking and are pretty cool places to ride. Dash Point, Fort Ebey, Wallace Falls. The more we speak up the more opportunity we can have or just plain keep.

[juice]

Thanks Skooks and good seeing you on Thursday.

Yes, come out and support biking at Saint Edward State Park. We had a huge showing on Thursday and need a huge showing Saturday. The support they see for biking will help our cause well beyond St. Eddies.

We made quite a statement, let's do it again on Saturday!

[carbuncle]

As an aside here, did I see that McMenamin's is the proposed leasee? So theoretically sometime in the future I might be able to pound out some laps at Big Finn and Ed.s, then have a Terminator afterwards? Nice!