Welcome to the new Westchester Biking and Walking Alliance
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- April
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Westchester Biking & Walking Alliance is a new organization to be an advocate in Westchester County for walkers and cyclists that. The WBWA will be an umbrella group for a number of community organizations to provide information, education, and advocacy resources. Their first meeting will be Monday May 11th at the Bronxville Library.
The hope of the WBWA is to have a citizen representative form all of Westchester has 45 cities, towns, and villages. The current people spear heading this new group is David Wilson, President of the Westchester Cycle Club and Michael Oliva of the Mid-Atlantic Coordiantor of the East Coast Greenway Alliance.
I asked David Wilson these questions.
1. How did the WBWA come in to existence? – the group grew out of the organizing effort for the Westchester Bike Summit, April 7, inWhite Plains.
2. Who are the current organizers? Westchester cycle Club President David Wilson and East Coast Greenway Mid Atlantic Trail Coordinator Mike Oliva, who lives in Tarrytown
3. What are your short term goals? – we want to create an organization that can carry on the work of the bike summit – our top issues are bike racks on county buses, bike lockers at transit centers, and creation of a bike facility along Westchester Avenue.
4. Long term goals? Creation of an organization with staff, like Transportation Alternatives in NYC
5. What are the top 3 issues facing cyclists and walkers in Westchester? for walkers – lack of sidewalks in many community centers, so walkers are discouraged. for Cyclists, lack of adequate secure bike storage and the state DOT’s anti-bike attitude in Region 8.
6. Westchester is a very diverse set of communities with very dense and urban areas in the south and central districts and rural and small towns in the north. What do these areas have in common and how can they be served differently?
7. You will hold your first meeting May 11th at 7:00pm at the Bronxville library, have you worked up an agenda yet? The agenda includes how we set up the organization, organizing volunteers, and starting a letter-writing campaign to the county to support bike racks on buses.
If you would like to join the new WBWA please email westchesterbikewalk@gmail.com or visit their website http://www.westchesterbikewalk.org/index.html
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