<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This Tuesday, July 17 at 2 pm, the City Council Sustainability and Transportation committee will have a presentation on the proposal for renewing the bike share program. The meeting will take place in council chambers on the 2nd floor of Seattle City Hall, 600 4th Ave. (between Cherry and James Streets). Come to the committee meeting, sign up to speak, be there to show support for our concerns or email the Council with your thoughts. Below are some highlights related to the bike parking issue:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Allow number of bikes to grow from 10,000 (current) to 20,000 bikes</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* Construct enough bike parking to hold 1,500-3,000 bikes. These could be on street or in furniture area of sidewalks, Each parking area holds 10-15 bikes and they are proposing to build 150-200 areas.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The number of bike parking spaces is minuscule compared to the number of bike share bikes on the street. The presentation says that on-sidewalk parking is cheaper to build, thus incentivizing the city to build those.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They need to build a lot more bike parking spaces, and they need to put them in the street and not on the sidewalks. We also need a seat at the table when they are planning these bike parking areas. They have apparently constructed or painted a couple of on street bike parking areas somewhere in Ballard as a pilot.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If this committee votes to go with the staff recommendations the contract renewal would then go to the full council for a final vote.on Monday, July 23.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is agenda item #6 but public comment for all items happens at the beginning of the meeting. They have a sign-up sheet in the front of the Council chambers. There are sighted staff who will sign you up. Each person usually has 2 minutes rot speak unless dozens of people sign up to speak, in which case each person gets to speak for 1 minute. It’s good to have your thoughts organized</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">City Council Sustainability and transportation committee members:</div><div class="">Mike O’Brien, Chair</div><div class="">Rob Johnson, Vice Chair</div><div class="">Kshama Sawant, Member</div><div class="">Bruce Harrell, Alternate</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can email the entire City Council; <a href="mailto:council@seattle.gov" class="">council@seattle.gov</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Getting to Council chambers is more straightforward if you enter on the 5th Ave. side of the building. If you enter on 4th you have to take 2 different elevators to get to the 2nd floor.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will be there. I hope some of you can join me. I know this is short notice.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is the link to the agenda with links to each agenda item:</div><div class=""><a href="https://seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=614539&GUID=2BA08B8E-0564-4CE8-8993-6A81F570189B" class="">https://seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=614539&GUID=2BA08B8E-0564-4CE8-8993-6A81F570189B</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>