How many of you Campaigners out there get Savannah Magazine? Or at least read it while you’re waiting for your doctor or to get your hair cut? Us too!
We were thrilled to see so much about bikes in the 20th anniversary issue out this month. Gracing the cover are two great bike people, friends and SBC supporters Jake and Miriam Hodesh of New Moon of Savannah. They and other Savannah futurists see great possibility for our city in improving bikability and walkability. No less than 6 of the 20 idea makers including Martin Melaver (Living Above the Store), Scott Boylston (SCAD, Emergent Structures Project), Judy Jennings (Sierra Club, Riverkeeper, Wilderness SE), and others provide a specific mention of bicycling and bikability in their vision of Savannah 2030. Two others make mention of livability and walkability, which of course go hand in hand with the same idea, not to mention Tom Barton’s notion of merging city and county government which might indeed make us more efficient. All great ideas, and we’re glad we have so many of the same mind working together for the future of Savannah.
In the same issue, Anne Hart (also of SouthernMamas.com) wrote another article on new year’s resolutions, and while no specific text is devoted to cycling, the idea of bicycling as a family activity is not-so-subtly promoted in the photo. 
Also, before any of you gives Savannah magazine or us a hard time for displaying this photo of an unhelmeted child passenger, just remember that we all as adults braved the gauntlet of helmetless riding through many years as kids, this child is pictured on a trail where the laws of the road (namely those under 16 must wear a helmet in Georgia) do not apply, and this has all been staged for a photo opportunity to give readers positive messages about physical activity (i.e. it is not something dangerous to be avoided). Just as an FYI, for my own kids the rule is still: no helmet, no bike. For more info, these links take a look for some of the swirl of the helmet debate…
