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After doing this Voter's Guide Survey for the city council elections for two elections now and a failed attempt in 2015 , I can safely say that I figured out how to properly evaluate, and figure out who's Anti-Cycling in San Antonio. But I didn't learn these lessons overnight, it literally took three city council elections to figure it all out. Those lessons are: Time:   If you thinking that all it took to complete this was 10 minutes, then you would be wrong. It took missing bike rides, weekends and available free time. The reason why the cut off date was put back wasn't because the lack of responses but because work and life in general made it so that I had to push the deadline back from March 27 to April 2.  This is the reason why during this election I started to limited my reaching out to only those candidates who have one of either a Facebook page, a Twitter handle or a website. My time is a valuable commodity and not having a website that can be found after googl...

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 h...