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>Any new bike lane require a community consultation (which is a problem in itself!, but let's forget that for a minute)... but who comes to those? The working c

by scythe 4y ago

>Any new bike lane require a community consultation (which is a problem in itself!, but let's forget that for a minute)... but who comes to those? The working class families that have to take care of their kids in the evening? Or older folks that have no other plans on a random week night? Before COVID all those meetings were in person at some community center. Of course for any cyclist to get there, they'd need to bike on a street with no bike lanes. So who shows up? People in cars! I wonder if you could have something like jury duty for these meetings, where a dozen people from the community are selected to comment each week or something.

orwin 4y ago
Pseudo randomly selected, then informed for like 3 days about the issues, discuss it themselves for a day then vote. And we should do this for each issues
- bluGill 4y ago
  NIMBYs will just lobby these people. I've seen it happen.
  - nybble41 4y ago
    That's easily solved: Just don't announce who was selected until after the vote.
specialist 4y ago
Yup. aka Citizens' Assembly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_assembly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_assembly One example is Oregon State's Citizen's Initiative Review process, which is just like you describe. https://medium.com/participo/citizens-initiative-review-helping-citizens-make-better-informed-voting-choices-a0d2bf576da9 https://medium.com/participo/citizens-initiative-review-help... https://ballotpedia.org/Citizens%27_Initiative_Review https://ballotpedia.org/Citizens%27_Initiative_Review https://healthydemocracy.org/podcast/2020/01/06/podcast-democracy-nerd-exploring-oregon-style-democracy/ https://healthydemocracy.org/podcast/2020/01/06/podcast-demo...