I don't live in the 8th, but the district line runs down the middle of the street in front of my house. And, depending on where I'm headed, I can be in the 8th right out of the house. I would have to say that a major proportion of my daily riding is in the 8th.
Anyway, I read through the statements. Here are some impressions:
- Marty Healey seems totally clueless; his answers are basically content-free. But, importantly, he's a dog-lover. I'm sure that those of us who have been chased down the street by dogs would be willing to overlook those incidents.
- Rennick Remley seems to be running in the wrong district. His target audience appears to be car drivers, commuters beyond the city limits. Couldn't he at least have made an effort lie to us?
- Unlike Healey and Remley, Sonja Finn seems to have a staff that researched the whole bicycle thing. But her positions are kind of tin-eared. Is 5th and Penn really a major biker issue? I go through that area a lot from all directions but never really need to hit that intersection.
- Erika Strassburger claims to be a bike commuter. Whether or not she is, she (or her staff) does have an accurate sense of bike issues in her prospective district. She also appears to be well versed on topics of interest to bikers such as Complete Streets. But then she is/was Gilman's chief-of-staff and has more direct experience than the others.
2018-02-23 23:34:46