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Advocacy:
The Pearland Cycling Club shares the goals of dramatically increasing the numbers of bicyclists and pedestrians as we simultaneously decrease the number of crashes involving bicyclists and pedestrians.
We will accomplish these goals by fostering improvements in Education, Engineering, and Encouragement.
Education: The Pearland Cycling Club supports:
Texas Bicycle Coalition's Safe Routes to School and Supercyclist programs.
League of American Bicyclists Bike Ed Cycling Education Series
Engineering: The Pearland Cycling Club supports:
Complete Streets: Where all users feel comfortable using our transportation corridors.
Development of a Pearland Bikeways program that will lead to a functional bicycling transportation
system for Pearland, and Northern Brazoria County.
Encouragement: The Pearland Cycling Club supports:
Bicycle Friendly Community Program for Pearland
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Your Advocacy Organizations
John Forester/ Bicycle Transportation Institute Bicycle Transportation Institute National Bicycle Dealer's Association
Why we should be concerned:
Regional Transportation Projects (.pdf)
What we need:
• Smooth, safe roads that connect from where we are to where we want to go. These make good cycling routes.
• Continuous shoulders and wide outside lanes provide adequate safety for trained cyclists.
• Share the Road signs enhance driver awareness.
Common Roadblocks to safe, enjoyable cycling:
• Outside lanes less than 14 feet wide.
• Shoulders that disappear at intersections, or because they were not adequately maintained.
• Failure to maintain shoulders.
• Roads that deteriorate at the edges because no shoulder was used during the original construction.
• Bike lanes that are narrow, poorly maintained, next to curbs that trap detritus (99% of all bike lanes).
• Rumble strips that are too wide (over 4") and too deep (over 1/4"), placed without adequate breaks at intersections, and placed on roads that don't qualify for them under state and national guidelines.
• "Chip Seal" surfaces are too rough for most cyclists.
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Action:
New!
See the PCC advocacy slide show. (under construction).
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| Resources US Department of Transportation Design Guidance for Accommodating Bicycle and Pedestrian Travel. |
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Advocacy Contacts
Pearland
Tom Reid, Mayor
Bill Eisen - City Manager City of Pearland, Texas City Hall 3519 Liberty Drive Pearland, TX 77581 (281) 652-1662 (281) 652-1708 fax
Allen Mueller, Pearland Deputy City Manager City of
Pearland
Doug Kneupper, Pearland City Engineer City of
Pearland Richard F. Tetens, Councilmember Position 1 Woodrow "Woody" Owens, Councilmember, Position 2 City of
Pearland
Charles Viktorin, Councilmember, Position 3 8325 Broadway,
Suite 202
Larry R. Marcott, Councilmember, Position 4 3606 Inverness
Court
Klaus Seeger, Councilmember, Position 5 P.O.
Box 890574
Keep Pearland Beautiful 2947 East Broadway,
Suite 300 Brazoria County
Gerald Roberts - Brazoria County Engineer (281) 756-1265
James Clawson Commissioner, Precinct 2
Jack Harris Commissioner, Precinct 3:
Texas Department of TransportationWeb site
Houston District Engineer Statewide Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety
Houston-Galveston Area CouncilMain web site Bicycle/pedestrian
coordinator dan.raine@h-gac.com
TXDOT Houston
Pearland Economic Development Corporation http://www.pearlandedc.com/home/default.asp
Executive Staff Fred Welch, Executive
Director
Will Benson, Marketing
Manager
Karen
Dickson, Manager, Business Retention & Expansion
Janice Vega, Administrative
Assistant
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Media Fax Numbers
TV 02 KPRC ph (713) 222-2222 fax (713) 771-4930 11 KHOU ph (713) 526-1111 fax (713) 520-7763 13 KTRK ph (713) 666-0713 fax (713) 664-0013 26 KRIV ph (713) 479-2600 fax (713) 479-2859 39 KHWB ph (713) 781-3939 fax (713) 787-0528 Radio 740 KTRH ph (713) 526-5874 fax (713) 630-3666 88.7 KUHF ph (713) 743-0887 fax (713) 743-0868 Houston Chronicle fax (713) 220-6806
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