02/02/2016
Help Milwaukee go from a Bronze to a GOLD Level Bicycle Friendly Community Ranking in 2016!!
SAVE THE DATE: FEBRUARY 17th, 2016 from 4:00-6:30PM
LOCATION: Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers (Conference Room B; 1032 S Cesar E Chavez Dr, Milwaukee, WI 53204)
A core team has been setting the stage in order for community members to lead a Path to Gold bicycling coalition (see below). We are contacting you as someone who can bring specific leadership, community representation, collaborative vision, and expertise into our group to guide this growing process.
Guide the community-wide engagement process: If you are interested, we would love to have you join for our meetings and help us make key connections in your part of the Milwaukee community. Alternatively, if you could suggest one or two people who we could invite to participate.
What Path to Gold is: The “Path to Gold” is an effort to improve bicycling in the City of Milwaukee. The term Path to Gold comes from the simple goal to be recognized as a gold‐ level Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists (we are currently at the bronze level).
But to truly be a Bicycle Friendly Community, we think that the process needs to represent the entire City. So we are reaching out to neighborhoods and organizations throughout our Milwaukee community (including places that have had little involvement in bicycle advocacy in the past). We will bring groups together to talk about how bicycling can be a path to health, path to public safety, path to prosperity, and path to independence for all neighborhoods in Milwaukee (see description below this message).
We are looking for you to help lead the advocacy push—work with the Mayor and Council to communicate a vision for a bicycle‐friendly Milwaukee. We hope to see you soon!
