Seattle's Master Bicycle Plan

04/09/2007 at 12:00 p.m.

What would it take to make Seattle the best city for bicycling in the country? That's the goal of a new Master Bicycle Plan. It's budgeted at 240 million dollars over 10 years.

An estimated one of three Seattle residents use a bicycle for transportation or recreation. The plan's goal is to triple the amount of bicycling in Seattle in the next decade. What would it take to get you to ride your bike three times as much as you do now? What would it take to get you to start riding a bike in the first place? The other main goal of the plan is to reduce the number of bicycle crashes by one third. What should be done to make bicycling safer? How can you vastly increase the number of riders while dramatically decreasing the accidents? We'll talk about it with an advocate of the plan, a bicyclist who thinks it doesn't go far enough, and you.

Guests:
David Hiller is the advocacy director for the Cascade Bicycle Club, a nonprofit dedicated to "creat[ing] a better community through bicycling". Hiller helped create the Seattle Bicycle Master Plan.
David Smith is a certified bicycle instructor with the League of American Bicyclists. He's also an author of a visual language system for bicyclists.