US Pro races and advocacy updates

As anyone who rides a bike in this town knows, the USA Cycling Championship races took place last weekend in Greenville. You can see television coverage of the races this Sunday at 5:00 pm on the Versus network. I enjoyed seeing how Greenville and the Upstate were portrayed during last year’s TV coverage of the races, and I expect similar positive coverage of our City this time around.

As I mentioned in the last post, I attended the initial Plan-It Greenville open house last week. Everyone who attended filled out a survey that covered general quality of life as well as specific issues in Greenville. The survey provided several opportunities to make suggestions for future improvements in the City. As you may be able to guess, more provisions for cycling are something that I stressed in the survey. I encourage all of you who were not able to attend to go to the Plan-It Greenville website and take the survey online.

For those of you interested in off road advocacy, the Upstate SORBA chapter is now official. Check out the website for more information about how the group plans to improve Upstate South Carolina’s mountain biking opportunities.

The SCDOT has a new section on their website that allows the public to see where resurfacing efforts are underway or planned. This is a great opportunity for us to look for places that are heavily used for cycling and to request bike lanes or wide outer lanes as part of the resurfacing.

Photo: George Hincapie on the second to last lap on Broad Street. You can see more of my race photos here.