Subject: Resolution, re bicycle parking in MBTA/Natick parking garage
         Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:57:56 -0400
         From: Dick and Jill Miller <TheMillers@millermicro.com>
 Organization: Miller Microcomputer Services
           To: General Distribution

Please be advised that the following resolution was unanimously
supported at the NBPAC Meeting of May 3rd:
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The Natick Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee urges Natick and
the MBTA to include a clear incentive for bicycle parking in the
planning for the new downtown Natick parking garage, as follows.
Allocate five car spaces indoors on the first floor, adjacent to the
exit and to optimum visibility, to be used as free parking for some 25
bicycles instead.

This will serve as a visible incentive to some car drivers to bicycle
instead (inexpensively and safely parking out of the weather), and thus
will serve Natick in the same way the parking garage serves Boston -- to
free up additional downtown car parking for others.  In addition, each
converted car space will serve five commuters instead of one.  Should
this prove popular, additional space conversions should be provided to
meet the demand.

We urge adoption of this important plan modification in time for Bike
Week (May 16-22), and we hope that Natick and the MBTA will embrace its
philosophy.
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For the Natick Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee
--Dick Miller, Member <TheMillers@millermicro.com>