As you may have heard, our Roland Park Sunday Streets field test on 25 October was a resounding success. On hand were Greg Contori and Carol Silldorf who worked the One Less Car table in front of the Roland Park Library from 8AM to 1PM. Many of you made it a point to ride to Roland Ave that sunny Sunday morning. Thanks to our One Less Car community, and to the many others in the Baltimore cycling community who turned out, our signal was received loud and clear. For our (Roland Park Civic League) version of events and for a list of media hits see http://rolandpark.org/SevenGenWeekend. At our debriefing, the police and transportation workers were pleasantly surprised with the Roland Park results. They now seem willing to work with the local cycling community and with neighborhood associations like ours to take Baltimore's Sunday Streets to scale. A group of city- and state-level organizations is currently working to submit a grant proposal to the federal government to generate start-up funds for the City to meet its considerable Sunday Streets costs- mainly for police and Dept of Transportation worker overtime. That extra outside funding may be a necessary condition for success. But if we really want to move the equation forward we need to start building Sunday Streets from the ground up. To control costs, the key variable going forward is to maximize the volunteer-police officer ratio. Picture one or two local residents out there every Sunday morning, guarding each intersection, explaining to motorists that they must find alternative routes, maintaining contact with the police and transportation workers who will be on scene. These volunteer extender teams have to be built neighborhood by neighborhood, mile by mile, working from the ground up. In Roland Park that day we had 14 City employees for our one mile course. All agreed that it could be pared down to half that or less, provided the community fields volunteers to help out. Some communities will be able to do that, others will not. Finding out the proper City employee/volunteer ratio will be a trial and error process. The Roland Park Civic League proposes working with One Less Car to organize the second, larger Sunday Streets field test, slated for March 2010. The plan is to add the "lake to lake" (Lake Montebello to Druid Hill Park) segment to the Roland Ave course. Thanks to One Less Car the technicalities are already worked out. Based on the Roland Park experience, I think we'll need to link up with at least three other neighborhood associations to do this second field test. We are already working with Councilwomen Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke and Belinda Conaway to identify the appropriate local leaders. If we succeed, IMHO, ie, if we can raise and coordinate volunteer support teams in some set of community organizations, we will then be positioned to push the full-scale Sunday Streets plan to scale by Summer 2010. Together, we can make Sunday Streets happen.