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Want to know where the city’s mayoral candidates standing on improving Pittsburgh’s accessibility for biking and walking? Improving citywide data on crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists? Planning bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure?
Now you can find out.
BikePGH, the city’s bicycling advocacy group, has posted questionnaires completed by Democratic mayoral candidates Bill Peduto, A.J. Richardson, Jack Wagner and Jake Wheatley, and Republican candidate Josh Wander, online as part of its #bikewalkvote campaign.
“This year, we wanted to clearly show the candidates that these issues are not only utterly important for the lives, safety and health of our citizens, but that they are also hugely popular,” BikePGH wrote on its website. “However, the infrastructure making sure that these workers stay safe is seriously lacking and disconnected.”
BikePGH will post questionnaires from the city council candidates next week.
This article appears in May 1-7, 2013.
I skimmed through the candidates answers and it looks like by and large they all support biking. That makes political sense though–it’s a small ticket item budgetwise, so why alienate an active voting bloc? What would impress me is a candidate who actually gets on a bike. Sam Hens-Greco occasionally bikes to work from Squirrel Hill to Downtown–we have passed each other when I’m on my daily bike commute to Oakland. Does anyone know if any other candidates, for any office, ever commute to work by bike, or even ride the trails and streets sometimes? (Apologies if any of them actually said so in their questionnaire answers, as I said, I only skimmed them.)
Thank you, Chris, for recognizing that Sam bikes to work downtown from Squirrel Hill! But “occasionally” would be a slight understatement. In 2012, Sam biked over 1700 miles to work and back for a total of 143 round trips. At the very least, that qualifies for “not shabby for a 56 year-old guy.”
Adverbs occasionally get me into trouble.
Heh, they do us all, Chris.