Clifton to City: Encourage Bicycling!

One of Cincinnati's most active neighborhood associations has sent Mayor Mallory, City Administrator Milton Dohoney, and City Council a resolution urging the city to do more to promote bicycling in their area.

At its February meeting, Clifton Town Meeting (CTM) passed a resolution urging the City of Cincinnati to:

• Encourage the use of bicycles in Clifton as a healthy, environmentally friendly and enjoyable means of transportation
• Ensure that bicycles are included in transportation plans for Clifton in the future
• Ensure that transportation plans enhance the desirability of Clifton as a place to live

CTM passed the resolution in response to a presentation by Queen City Bike that focused on the positive effect bicycles can have on the vitality and livability of urban mixed-use neighborhoods.

A new approach to transportation planning in the region is sorely needed. The Uptown Transportation Study, adopted in 2006, calls for increasing the number of cars in Clifton and environs and assumes that the population of the area declines. Increasing the use of bicycles and other alternative means of transportation that would enhance the neighborhood are largely neglected in that plan in favor of adding more car lanes to major streets.

We will be working with neighborhood groups across the region to advocate a different and better approach.