Students encouraged to attend bicycle, pedestrian community meetings
Dear Editor,
Imagine you are running late and it is only five minutes before your first class begins. You know that your professor frowns on you being late to class. When you arrive near the main campus, all of the parking spaces on the campus perimeter including the lots are full, so you have to park in a space several blocks away from the classroom building, and you hope you will not receive a ticket.
You begin to think that there must be a better way than to fight this traffic everyday. You also know that with all those cars on the road, the air quality around the campus and downtown area must not be too good. You also realize that you have gained weight since you started GC&SU and a little exercise would not hurt. Finally, you come to the realization that there must be a better way for you, the rest of students and for the community.
There IS a better way and we are asking you to hear all about it. Members of the Milledgeville-Baldwin County community have been busy over the past year developing and implementing a plan to construct bicycle and pedestrian facilities that would link the two GC&SU campuses with each other–the downtown area–and to the proposed Greenway along the beautiful Oconee River. There is a related group that is busy planning a shared-use trail along an old abandoned rail line between Macon and Milledgeville.
In an effort to educate and inform local residents and students on the local bicycle/pedestrian plan and the progress made to date to implement it and to seek participation and support of the program, the local Planning Advisory Committee has scheduled a series of public meetings to be held on the GC&SU campus. The meetings will take place on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2005 at 5:30 p.m., and on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2005, at 7 p.m. Both meetings take place in Room 108 of Atkinson Hall, GC&SU Main Campus.
Attend one of these meetings and learn how YOU can help make Milledgeville-Baldwin County a walking and bicycling community like no other in the southeast. Then, in the near future, instead of fighting for a parking space, you might be able to “park” your bicycle right next to your classroom building and stop worrying about being late. The air you breathe may also be a little better. You may even shed those extra pounds, feeling healthier and stronger with much more energy!
Sincerely,
Dr. Rick Bialac
Professor of Information Systems,
on behalf of Phil Clark Middle Ga. Regional Development Center
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Feb 10 2006. Filed under Opinion.
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