B.R.A.S.S.

Baton Rouge Advocates for Safe Streets (BRASS) is having their monthly meeting tonight at the Terrace Ave branch of the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Library System. Meeting begins at 6:30 and tonight we have a featured guest!!!

Joining us will be Chief Traffic Engineer for the City of Baton Rouge Ingolf Partenheimer.
Chief Partenheimer wants to make big changes in Baton Rouge quickly. I'm not sure if he will be
fielding questions or if he will simply be reading a statement and then leaving or how exactly his presence will be set up, but he will be there.

Please spread the word about this meeting and get folks out there!!!

Only a few more Mayor's meetings

There are only a few more opportunities for you to get your concerns, questions, issues, and ideas heard by the mayor. These opportunites are at the following locations:

Feb. 16 — 4 p.m. at the Zachary Branch Library, 1900 Church St.;
6:30 p.m. at Scotlandville Branch Library, 7373 Scenic Highway.

Feb. 17 — 4 p.m. at McKinley Alumni Center, 1520 Thomas H. Delpit Road;
6:30 p.m. at St. Aloysius Church, 2025 Stuart Ave.

Feb. 19 — 4 p.m. at Kleinpeter Activity Center (near St. George Church), 7808 St. George Drive; 6:30 p.m, Woodlawn Baptist Church (cafeteria), 5805 Jones Creek Road.

Please tell your friends, neighbors, co-workers, enemies, and local hobos about these meetings!! Show up to these meetings! Make your voice heard! This opportunity is not going to happen again anytime soon, so please take advantage of it!!

Response to a letter to the editor:

This letter is in response to Maia E. Butler’s letter to the editor that was published on February 10th, 2009 in the Baton Rouge Advocate.

My understanding of the Capital Heights lanes is that they were temporarily striped to gauge interest and survey usage. As they were a roaring success, they have very recently been re-striped with bicycle lanes in both directions. While your claim that cars do not necessarily look in both directions for bicycles is correct, cars should be looking both ways for pedestrians. By looking for pedestrians, they should also see any cyclists traveling on that side of the road.

Maia- I encourage you, and all who are interested in bicycle and pedestrian issues in this city and parish, to attend the monthly BRASS meetings. We meet the 4th Thursday of each month at the Terrace Ave. Branch of the EBR Public Library System at 6:30 PM. Speaking of meetings, the Baton Rouge Bike/Ped Committee meets the 2nd Thursday of each month at 5:30 at the CRPC building on 19th and Florida. I also encourage you to write your council-person, senator, and representative and voice your concerns and ideas. If you don’t tell them, they don’t hear you!