The Bicycle Voters Guide 2021

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It's that time of year again, it's time that we ask those who run for city council questions to see if they are bicycle friendly. Now before you just count this one out like one of the city's latest bicycle survey, please hear me out. Because of these efforts, the city is doing surveys again, VIA has finally got the funding to expand and increase frequency and many of the major city projects now do include bicycle infrastructure. Because of everyone using this voters guide, we were able to keep unfriendly people off of the council and out of the mayor seat. Whether you hate the current mayor right now or your council members, please let me know who and why in the comments below.

After doing this for the last two election cycle I have learned many lessons and finally I will have a list of politicians who you should never contact or vote for in April 2021. As a rule I try to contact everyone running for office including Mama Bexar who ran for Mayor in 2017. If you don't have any one of the following, a website, Facebook page or even a Twitter handle, then you aren't a candidate worth contacting. If you don't have a least a FB page running for city council, then you aren't even a serious candidate and are wasting people's time and space on the ballot. 

For a list of all the candidates running for office, you can click on this link. https://aatblog210.blogspot.com/p/bicycle-voters-guide-2021.html

The survey question are.... 

Question 1:
"You're driving along and you encounter a person on a bicycle taking up the entire lane. What is your reaction?  

A, That's illegal and they should be riding on the sidewalk. 
B, Intimidate them so they will learn their place on the roadway.
C, It's okay to hit them with your car, and it's their fault for being in the way. 
D, None of the above.  

Reason for answer:  

Question 2:
Running for Council: Will you as a Council Member focus on putting down a Protected Bicycle Lane on the busiest corridor in your district? And what is the busiest corridor in your district? 
Y /N __Comments:  

Running for Mayor: Will you as Mayor focus on  putting a Protected Bicycle Lane on the busiest corridors in San Antonio, and what do you consider to be the most important corridor in the city?
Y / N __Comments:  

Question 3: 
"How should the Linear Creekways be funded, and on which improvement to the Linear Creekway do you want the funds to be spent?"
Answer:  

Question 4: 
"Do you support increased funds to expand and maintain VIA bus services and routes?"
Y / N __
Reason for answer:  

Question 5: 
"Should funding for more bicycle lanes and pedestrian safety education be included in the city's annual transportation budget?"
Y / N __ Reason for Answer:

You can send me the answers in the comments below, at any of the number of email addresses listed below or via private message on Facebook or Twitter.  The links to those social media sites are below as well.  

If you happen to be a voter wanting your candidate to answer, click on the list of all the candidates and there you'll find links to all of the candidates Facebook page, websites or even a twitter link. Just tell them you would like them to reply to this voters guide and provide them a link to this post which is https://aatblog210.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-bicycle-voters-guide-2021.html.

Deadline for all responses is 7pm, March 26, 2021. Responses will be published as received on my blog page "Bicycle Voters Guide 2021."

FB:  https://facebook.com/bikesanantonio/
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/BikeSanAntonio?s=09

Email:  aatblog01@gmail.com
              sirbikesalot06@gmail.com
              newdanielday36@hotmail.com
              sirbikesalot06@yahoo.com

I ask that you email me at all the email listed as a previous survey was rejected by my main gmail account. This should remedy that.

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