NOW Magazine
City backpedals on $100 million bike plan
Last year, the city was asked for an accounting of the money allocated to the Bike Plan – there still hasn t been an answer By Albert Koehl and Mary Ann Neary
Jan 24, 2021
Samuel Engelking
Life and death aren’t usually how we think about complicated (sometimes boring) City Hall budget debates.
But when the issue is road safety, the public’s interest doesn’t end with council decisions about how our money is spent. It extends to the outcome. When the community is short-changed on road safety dollars, the consequences can be tragic.