Rory Neuner

Complete Streets + Road Commissions

Yesterday my writing appeared in a guest post over at My Wheels Are Turning, a blog about public space curated by Gary Howe in Traverse City, Michigan. The piece focused on the opportunity for Michigan complete streets advocates to seize on new legislation that allows county governments to dissolve road commissions. Moving policies at the county level has been a major challenge to Michigan’s complete streets movement. I hope a few advocates will use the piece as inspiration to work toward complete streets at the county level. Thanks to Gary for the opportunity to share my analysis.

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Capital Community Bikeshare

I’ve been working with a team of community leaders on a project to bring a bikeshare system to Greater Lansing. We are still in the planning stages, but if you want to get involved, head over to our survey and let us know what kind of system you’d like to see. We’re using the results to guide decisions about kiosk location and memberships.

Creating a Livable Lansing

I was honored to participate in the inaugural TedXLansing event in May 2010. This was a unique and challenging public speaking opportunity. My piece, “Creating a Livable Lansing”, can be viewed here.

Lansing: Walkable, bikeable, desirable

City Council Campaign

In 2011 I jumped into the ring as a political candidate and ran for a seat on the Lansing City Council. I ran a great campaign, but ended up losing the election by a margin of 1%. For posterity’s sake, I’ve archived the campaign website at roryneuner.com/campaign.