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NO BIKES IN THE WEST TSA!

March 31, 2011. Last night, just before midnight, Boulder's City Council adopted the West Trail Study Area Plan. The Plan continues the 23-year ban on biking in the area. Read more ...

SOSboulder placed a half-age ad in the Sunday, March 27, issue of the Daily Camera, together with seven other Open Space preservation organizations opposed to biking. See the ad!

Wednesday, March 15. By 44 to 33 speakers the public told Boulder's City Council No Biking on Open Space. Read more ...

On Wednesday, February 23, the Open Space Board of Trustees adopted the staff's recommendation for no bikes in the West TSA, with two peripheral exceptions. Read more ...

Next to the City Council on March 15.

February 18, 2011 -- Very belatedly the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance and some Open Space Board members have proposed new trails. See Latest News!

We can't take time to celebrate! Read and download

the OSMP documents,
the staff memo to OSBT,
maps of the newest trail proposals,
the BMA's latest flawed proposal, and
other maps

all in our Latest News section.

Thank the Open Space staff for its wise recommendations. Use the OSMP West TSA Comment Form.

Environmental organizations unanimously oppose mountain biking! Read the strong and authoritative statements using the Organizations Take Stands link at the left.

Get out and speak up for hikers, trails, plants and wildlife using the Meeting Schedules link. Next meeting Wednesday, February 9. Be there and speak!

Take a look at our flyer. Print it and give it to your friends.

Read a summary of why so many people oppose biking in the West TSA.

See the archives for these green box messages.

Save Open Space Boulder is a group of Boulder citizens who strongly support our Open Space program and who now have concerns that its original purposes will be compromised by excessive new activities, particularly mountain biking.

Read the SOSboulder Position Paper: "Our Legacy at Risk: the Future of Boulder's Open Space"

We've chosen the name Save Open Space Boulder, and its acronym SOS, because we believe that there is an emergency for our Open Space.

There is a proposal on the table right now that would allow mountain biking on some of the most heavily used hiking trails in Boulder, linking Chatauqua to Eldorado Springs.

We believe mountain biking on popular hiking trails

poses a very serious safety risk to the many hikers, runners, children, allowed dogs, and others who use the trails today;
threatens to change the gentle hiking trails into high adrenalin mountain biking terrain that will no longer be suitable or enjoyable for many current users; and
will likely attract a high volume of car traffic - changing the very nature of many quiet neighborhoods.

We are equally concerned about an alternative proposal to create new trails solely for mountain biking through this same area (rather than share exisitng trails). These new trails would scar the landscape, destroy environmentally sensitive areas, and substantially increase maintenance and enforcement costs.

These proposals have been carefully considered and rejected by the Community Collaborative Group (CCG), the Open Space and Mountain Parks Department staff, and the Open Space Board of Trustees.

We are now into a period when decision-making has been transferred to the Boulder's City Council, that has the ultimate decision-making authority.

This is your last chance to protect our City's greatest and most fragile asset -- Open Space. Use the links we have provided to contact the CCG for its remaining issues, and the Open Space Board of Trustees and City Council on the biking issue.

For more information, please review this website, including the Links on the left, or send us an e-mail at info@sosboulder.org.

Thanks for your help.

March 31, 2011