Although the agenda and committee has already been set for our first meeting, we do need input from the community for these important meetings to be a success!! Please become involved we’d love your input!

Santa Monica Spoke is embarking on a series of meetings with Assistant City Manger Jennifer Phillips. Santa Monica Cyclists have joined together to speak with one voice, to help the city to achieve the next stage on the ladder bicycle friendly community awards: Let’s go for Gold!

We enter these meetings with a wide range of issues: From bicycle parking to cycling education, from bicycle boulevards to encouragement rides, from Ciclovia street openings to the bicycle license, from distracted driving to beach path connections. But behind this divergence of areas there is one big single issue: To create a viable conversation between cyclists and ALL departments of the city.

The outcome is open: Will it be a bicycle coordinator? or a Bicycle Commission? Or perhaps a bicycle task force? Perhaps it will be a policy which makes sure that bicycle interests are represented on commissions that deal with planning, with business development, with the police and the schools.

It is important to hear from all our cyclists right now, and we invite you to join the conversation on facebook, or become part of the google group in order to join the voice that is speaking with the city representatives. We need to hear about your issues, and we need your active participation in this process. What are the simple improvements that would make cycling enjoyable, safer, and more common. What are the long term aims, and how should be proceed to achieve them ? Now is the time to share your insights and your issues!