[Carfreeliving] great day yesterday

[A P Thornley]

Yeah, thanks so much to everyone who came out and everyone who took 
part in the conversation, it really worked well and serves as a big 
step forward in sorting things out for civility. It was huge to have 
Ross and Christina there, and after-school-special great to have Paul 
Maltzer present -- there was a little tension coming into the meeting 
about perceived sleights to MEA, and having Paul there made the 
meeting much more full and valuable. Nice to meet Joe Steinberger 
from BAAQMD and Rajiv Bhatia from DPH, and everybody who's been there 
the whole time, for years or decades. Several salutes to Greg Hayes, 
I'm sure his ears were burning . . .

I've already had the meeting tapes duped, and I'm listening to one of 
the dupes; we'll definitely get them transcribed pronto. They sound 
pretty clear, but there's one flaw that I knew about even before the 
meeting was over -- I'd started the tape recorder wrong, didn't 
actually tape anything for the first 15 minutes, while I gave my 
swell CEQA / Bike Planning intro and overview. After I finished and 
Rachel came up, I noticed that the level meters weren't bopping, so I 
hit stop and hit the buttons to start taping again, and then the 
levels bopped . . . Sure enough, all of my beautiful prologue talk is 
gone, but that's just as well for my humility. I've got notes to 
serve for minutes but I'll have to ask Rachel to repeat the first 
ninety seconds of her presentation (sorry) for the record. Otherwise, 
all's well with the tape, so we'll get it typed up and keep the 
conversation going, thanks again, see you soon . . .


Use your bell,


	--Andy--


At 8:30 PM -0700 4/7/05, Dave Snyder wrote:
>That was a great BAC meeting -- one of the best, if not *the* best 
>-- in my 12 years of watching and avoiding the BAC and BTAC meetings 
>that preceded it. I know that Bert is trying to get the comments 
>transcribed, in order to record officially the elucidating comments 
>of many of the staff people who showed up.
>
>I don't know if anyone but Bert went by CarFree Happy Hour before 
>the BAC meeting. After the BAC meeting, we had a great discussion, 
>part of the result of which is a draft resolution by Marc Salomon 
>for the BAC to ask the Board to introduce.
>
>--Dave
>
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