Hi everyone,
I'm forwarding this newsletter (again), as I consistently find Green Lane Project's articles useful. Their focus on cycle tracks / protected bike lanes and a recent emphasis on working with businesses to gain acceptance is particularly relevant for Winnipeg.
cheers, Beth
View this email in your browserhttp://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=44c6dc42cc&e=92d6ca5673 http://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=72db869223&e=92d6ca5673 This week's Green Lane Project news The case for protected bike lanes in one storyhttp://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=f9a7337ff3&e=92d6ca5673 Mar 19, 2014 01:13 pm
*The Rio Grande Street protected bike lane in Austin, Tex.*
One of the most interesting transformations in the media world right now is the fact that instead of making a name for themselves by buying TV and newspaper ads that pay other people to do great reporting and writing, companies are increasingly doing the great reporting and writing themselves, in their own name.
I've never seen a better example of this phoenomenon than this longform piece by the Traffic Safety Storehttp://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=90ac8a99b9&e=92d6ca5673, an online retailer of construction signs, traffic cones and safety vests, about the American movement to build protected bike lanes. Here's one characteristically thoughtful passage:
In order to maintain population growth, cities will need to diffuse...
From DC, a better way to think about businesses and bike lane
battleshttp://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=d80582d641&e=92d6ca5673 Mar 17, 2014 06:35 am
*John Stokes, director of risk management for The Jefferson hotel, on M Street before bike improvements.*
Eventually, everyone redesigning city streets runs into the same problem: small businesses rarely support changes to the roads that bring them customers.
This isn't because the people who speak for businesses are callous or irrational (despite strong evidence that patrons arriving by bike are often more profitable than those arriving by carhttp://greenlaneproject.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64bd122c67bd28d620978f4a5&id=7a0ea7ffa3&e=92d6ca5673). Most businesses tend to resist neighborhood changes for a very simple reason: *their businesses are profitable*.
For a business, every change to your surroundings introduces risk. And when you're already turning a profit, what's the point of risk? Face disagreements, don't deny them
So...
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