HomeMy WebLinkAbout9/4/2019 Item 2, Johnson
Wilbanks, Megan
From:Trent Johnson <tojohnson@gmail.com>
Sent:Wednesday,
To:Advisory Bodies
Cc:Jean Davidson
Subject:PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION, Wednesday, Sept 4, 2019 Public Comments
Dear Parks & Recreation commission:
Thank you for considering the addition of bicycle amenities, including bicycle pump/dirt tracks, in San Luis Obispo. We
live in the Laguna Lake Neighborhood with our three children and choose to live in this location due to its proximity to
natural spaces. However, we often find ourselves driving to Morro Bay, or on occasion Lompoc, to use those pump
tracks. We would love to skip the drive and instead be able to use the local spaces in Laguna Lake Park, which has ample
space for pump/dirt track and would serve as a fantastic attraction for youth to keep them occupied and for bicycle skill
building.
We would also support dirt/pump tracks in other parks such as Sinsheimer Park because as the number of bicycling
amenities in our town grows, the more residents will take to bicycling as a viable form of transportation leading to more
public support for bicycle lane improvements, and the prioritization of bicycling road amenities over those designed to
maximize efficiency for cars..
I would love to be able to regularly bike with my family to Sinsheimer Pool, Park or a Blues Game but the current affair
of high speed limits, and few other bikes on the road, make this a rare and stressful event. Small steps like building
bicycle play/park infrastructure could go along way to improving public support for other bicycle friendly traffic
enhancements which would move our city towards it's climate action goals, increase bicycling as a preferred mode of
transportation to downtown to improve economic activity, and increase the amount of active transportation which will
lead to improved public health, and a reduction in health care expenditures which would work to improve SLO's fiscal
sustainability.
Thank you for all that you do for our city.
Sincerely,
Trent Johnson & Jean Davidson
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