Ed Driggs
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13,582 appearances
62 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 14 Sep
Ed Driggs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My name is Matt Weschler, and I serve as one of your advisors on the Charlotte Bike Advisory Committee.
I'm also the father of a 19-month-old toddler who rides on the back of my bike as I commute with him from the West End to daycare in Uptown, which I've been told is very cute.
In my role on the BAC, I regularly hear from Charlotteans who would also like to bike with their children, but choose not to because they feel our streets are unsafe.
That perception is grounded in reality.
In Charlotte, pedestrian and bicycle crashes make up just 1.5% of all crashes, yet account for 29% of all serious and fatal injuries, a disparity well above the national average.
When streets feel dangerous, people don't bike.
As a result, Charlotte lags behind pure cities like Minneapolis, where the average worker is 10 times more likely to commute by bike.
That difference is not accidental.
Minneapolis has made sustained investments in building a safe, connected bike network, funding its bicycle program at roughly $14 per person per year, compared to about $3 per person per year in Charlotte.
That funding gap translates directly what we can and cannot build.
Charlotte's bike program is a low cost, high impact safety tool.
It allows people to avoid our high injury corridors by building connections between existing low stress neighborhood streets, turning dead ends into living ends, while linking strategic investment areas into a coherent city wide network.
For that reason, the BAC recommends increasing the bike program budget from its current $8 million every two years to $20 million every two years.
If new sales tax revenues are programmed as anticipated, that would scale the bike program proportionally with overall CDOT funding while significantly expanding its impact.
Thank you.
Mr. Mayor and Council, I just want to recognize a colleague, a former colleague who served on the dais, actually serving this seat as Mayor Pro Tem.
He's here tonight, Mr. Braxton Winston.
Move to approve A and B. Second.
Move to approve A and B.
We didn't get a vote.
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