New (temporary) Website!

We have put up a website temporarily while we work on the new one. Hopefully you can find all of the info you need for the time being!

The Greenline Is Close!

Hi all,

Good news from Greg Mated and the Greater Memphis Greenline. Here is the CA article:
Shelby County officials seal deal with CSX; new trail coming soon
As well as an article I wrote about the project on my blog.

Best,
Anthony

Funding for Bike Lanes Came Through from the Stimulus

Friends,

The American Economic Recovery and Enhancement stimulus package approved in the congress a couple weeks ago has trickled down to Memphis. Below you will see the routes which will have bicycle facilities in the Memphis Metropolitan Area within the next two years. We still have a lot of work to do to make Memphis into a bicycle friendly town, but this is a big step in the right direction.

Check out Wayfaring.com to see most of the routes traced on a map. First, locate Memphis, then, search “revolutions bike shop.” You can check out how the routes fit together by looking on the sidebar for “bike lanes,” “sign shared roadways” etc.

Greetings From Washington DC!

Greetings from the Ronald Reagan building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C.!  I’ve traveled to DC for the week to represent Memphis, specifically Congressional District 9, at the National Bicycle Summit sponsored by the League of American Bicyclists.  I arrived mid-day yesterday, and plan to stay through the end of the summit into next week.  In addition to attending the summit, I hope to spend next week volunteering with the League and checking out the “SmartBikes,” DC’s public rental bike program.

The program began this evening with a wonderful talk from Congressional Transportation Committee Chairman, James L. Oberstar.  “When I started out on this committee, I listened quietly as representatives told stories about the major highway projects going on in their neighborhood,” he said.  “Then,” he paused…”I became chairman of this committee.  And I made it a point to tell anyone who walked through that door: don’t come boasting about anything but your bike and pedestrian projects at committee from here on out!”  A typical politician catering to his crowd, no doubt, but it was amazing to hear such vigorous support for a bicycle friendly nation from the Congressional Transportation Chair!

From Martha Kelly at Overtone Park Friends Inc.

I’m sorry for multiple emails about this, but this issue is real, and it is critical.  There will be a meeting tomorrow night in the VECA neighborhood to talk about this.  Please take a couple hours if you can to show up and talk with the City Engineers and Councilman Strickland to let them know your position on this crucial decision.

All the best,
Anthony

To all lovers of Overton Park:

The city plans to destroy the Greensward in Overton Park, and we need your voices to speak up to defend it.  The city engineers want to improve drainage in the nearby creek by digging out the entire field by Rainbow Lake and making it a bowl 18′ deep (as deep as a two story building sunk into the field).  The bowl would collect storm drain run-off (and the trash, oily residue, lawn chemicals and everything else that gets washed down storm drains).   The field is squishy enough when it rains now — if it’s dug out that deep it will be standing water and mud for much of the year.  Mosquitoes will breed on a scale never before seen in Midtown, and the trash and oil will sit there in a fetid stew.