[BVC-INFO] thank you

[Jonathan Coopersmith]

I want to thank everyone for making our City Council pedal so 
successful, especially Amy and Jean Marie for lending bikes and to 
those who were able to show up (despite the error in directions).  I 
think we impressed our elected representatives with the need for good 
infrastructure and our interest in encouraging the city to make the 
needed investment.

I'll write a thank you note (real letter) to our guests.

Two councilmembers, Chris Scotti and Lynn McIlhany, did not respond 
to the invitation.
Ron Gay did (he was out of town), and wrote
          I am committed to ensuring that we take care of our cycling
community with out [sic - our, I assume] transportation 
projects.  With proper planning we can
accommodate cyclists at the design stage and not have to go back later
and add on.


Ideas for next time:
-  technical assistance for the new bikers if necessary (including leg clips)
-  try to get the TV stations interested
        (assume Eagle coverage will not be as good)
-  invite the School Board
-  try something in Bryan (or invite the Bryan city council to follow 
our route to show what could be done)


                 Jonathan


FYI:
From: "Criscitiello, Michael" <MCriscitiello at som.umaryland.edu>
To: <j-coopersmith at tamu.edu>
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Hi Jonathan,

I am starting my lab there at the vet school in June and was excited 
to see the article on the bike ride you organized on the newspaper 
web page.  I bike commute here in Baltimore and hope to do so in CS 
even though we are buying way down in Pebble Creek.  I still have 
seen more bike paths in CS than Baltimore, but I think they were 
around campus.  Is there a bike commute group there?  I saw the bike 
master plan on the town website... that will be great if it gets done.

I guess I will get sweatier there, hope I can find a place to shower on campus.

Looking forward to becoming an aggie and glad at least someone else 
likes to bike there!

Mike

Mike Criscitiello
post-doc in Flajnik Lab
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Maryland
655 West Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 706-5161
(410) 706-2129 (fax)



Jonathan Coopersmith
Associate Professor
Dept. of History
MS 4236
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas  77843-4236
979.845.8584
979.862.4314 fax

Secretary
History & Philosophy of Science Section (L)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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