Plan-it Greenville Theme Committees

I received an email this week about committees that are being established for the different Plan-it Greenville themes. Basically, if you live and/or work in the City of Greenville, you can volunteer to participate on any of the different citizen advisory committees based on the themes that have been identified so far. Each committee will meet 3 times during the spring and summer to discuss goals and make recommendations related to the theme. The meetings will most likely take place during the lunch hour and each committee will select the dates to meet. I encourage you to read about all six of the Plan-it Greenville themes right here, but I want to point out (directly from the Plan-it Greenville email) the three themes that I think impact us the most as cyclists:

Transportation: The theme committee will address public transportation and providing adequate infrastructure so that individuals have sidewalks, bike lanes and roads for travel options. Also Transit Oriented Developments (TODs) will be studied and transit corridors will be identified.

Healthy Living and a Pedestrian-friendly environment: The theme committee will address creating walkable spaces, green spaces for parks and community vegetable gardens, sidewalks, cross walks, bike lanes, smaller streets with slower speeds, and neighborhood commercial and mixed use areas.

Green/ Environment: This theme committee will look at ways to protect natural spaces such as the Reedy River, landscaping requirements, encouraging Green development, reducing greenhouse gases through reduction of vehicle miles traveled, and sustainability in future development and redevelopment.

I have already expressed interest in participating on the Transportation committee. If others of you are interested in that one as well, I encourage you to email planit@greatergreenville.com and let them know that you would like to participate. I hope that a few of you will choose to participate on the other two committees as well. It would be really great to have representatives from the cycling community serving on all three committees, so please let me know if any of you decide to sign up.

STR update

As I mentioned before, new Share the Road signs are up on Chick Springs Road. In the City of Greenville, signs are soon to be up in Cleveland Park, on Roper Mountain Road, and on Villa Road to name a few locations. As you know, the effort is moving a bit slower in the County, but I did recently hear from SCDOT that they are going to “make up work orders for sign maintenance crews to implement installation” based on the list of locations that the Spinners members helped to put together. The SCDOT district office can’t promise to include every route that we mentioned, but I am glad to hear that they are going to try to “fulfill the current list.” I will continue to post updates on the County Share the Road effort as I have them.