Get Involved
- Organize and maintain a neighborhood committee.
- Conduct door to door surveys
- Solicit signatures on petition
- Distribute flyers or information
- Man information stations on trail
- Contribute website information/content
- research trail or light rail issues for inclusion
- write sections for web site
- Raise funds for Trails Without Rails
- Solicit support or in-kind contributions from local groups (printers, bike shop, biking clubs)
- Maintain e-mail list and distribute information via e-mail
- Attend city and county public meetings as appropriate
- Contact and meet with city and county officials to discuss issue of light rail transit on SW corridor
Neighborhood Committees Now Organizing
All of us who live near or enjoy the SW Corridor trail have been following very closely the activities associated with the Metropolitan Council's proposal to build light rail transit (LRT) on the trail. As the trail connects many of our neighborhoods, we ask your help in getting your neighborhood organized to help preserve the trail exclusively for recreational use. From St. Louis Park through Chanhassen, we all need to work together. Here is how we recommend you organize your neighborhood:
- If you already have an association or neighborhood crime watch, you may want to use that existing structure.
- Designate a leader or contact person to distribute information to your neighbors.
- Collect e-mail addresses from your neighbors to notify them about activities.
- Regularly visit the Trails Without Rails Web site for current information about the project and to interact with the organization in its efforts to preserve the trail.
- Conduct neighborhood activities, which may include:
- "Celebrate Our Trails Day" - everyone use the trail on August 17, 2002. Media will be contacted.
- Conducting door to door surveys in your neighborhood.
- Manning "Information Stations" on the trail or in each neighborhood.
- Distributing flyers, signs and petitions.
Use your imagination and channel your ideas to our Neighborhood Committees. The coordinator for the Neighborhood Committees is Mike Hall (Bent Creek Neighborhood). Contact Mike at mikehall@tjf2000.com if you are interested in getting your neighborhood involved.
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