It's been almost a year of discussing the future
management of the Boulder mountain backdrop - including the
possibility of a bike trail from Baseline Road to Doudy Draw and
Marshall Mesa. Community Collaborative Group (CCG) members have
spent the last 12 months
in meetings, all the while pushing off the really big issues till
later.
'Later'
comes this
Monday, Sept 13
Over
the last twelve months, BMA has taken a
low profile approach to the West TSA, minimizing our public
rhetoric so the CCG can meet and collaborate as intended; with
minimal noise from the court of public
opinion.
Well, the same can't be said of
the anti bike crowd who are dead set against even modest bike
access in the West TSA. Click here and hereto look
at the anti bike propaganda being distributed at trailheads in the
West TSA. The goal
of this flyer is to inspire fear and get users to overwhelm the CCG
mountain bike meeting this Monday. They
think they can load the room up using fear tactics and outright
distortions and win the day.
That's
unlikely to
happen.
The CCG has heard all the arguments before, and the rules of
the meeting severely constrains public input to 30 minutes.
There
simply isn't going to be an opportunity for the public to engage
the CCG and OSMP in this meeting.
It's
for this reason that we encourage you to stay away
from this
meeting. But you can still voice your
support of modest access for mountain bikes in the Boulder
mountain backdrop and your disappointment in
the fear tactics and outright distortions of the anti-bike
crowd.
It's not time to show up,
it's
time to speak up.
Sign the petition here. Add
whatever personal comments you would like and send. We will
present the petition and signatures to the
CCG
We at
BMA care deeply about the outcome of this
meeting and hope that the CCG will have the courage and
determination to make the hard decisions the Boulder community
requires.
Whatever
happens, we'll
keep you informed.
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