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Not doing anything at 6:30 this evening? Then drop by the city council meeting to show your support for the $400,000 line item in the Capital Improvements sales tax renewal to pay for a new bicycle route numbering system (complete with wayfinding) and sharrows. This is a numbering system developed by the STAR Team and approved by the Bicycle Pedestrian Committee of the Springfield Traffic Advisory Board (I serve on both of these).

The route numbering system will create a grid similar to the numbering system of interstate highways. Sharrows will remind all citizens that bicyclists belong on the road.

Bruce Adib-Yazdi, chairman of the STAR Team, will be speaking on behalf of this funding.

The last couple of days have been so mild that bicyclists are springing up like so many crocuses. I decided it was a good time to have my Redline tuned up. I picked it up earlier this afternoon at Queen City Cycles and then noted that I was far from alone on the streets downtown. I saw one young couple riding cruisers abreast down Walnut toward Campbell — riding without a care in the world. And the drivers respecfully took their place behind. Wonderful.

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