We find that the majority of the community needs to get involved for anything to get done.
Everyone in my city is focused on flood defenses and we're trying to steer everyone away from any kind out of auto traffic being allowed near the seaside and I believe that we'll achieve success. This is most via Facebook-based organisation and action where about 50% of all citizens from the borough are involved.
Here's what we're debating/consulting about cycling provisions, which I'm strongly involved within. Although, I will admit that we're very organised. They're about 3000 of us in the Facebook group and we all have roles ... scanning planning permission applications, actively protesting, meeting with the council members, which are also on the group (4 political parties that have different agendas as well.) But, if we don't get what we want, we're stuck with garbage for the next 100 years, so we must fight now to ban the autos near the sea.