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BikeSage at L.A. Bike Summit
Monday, 16 February 2009
Mark your calendars for March 7th and plan on attending the L.A. Bike Summit. “The Bike Summit will bring together bicycle advocates, advocates for healthy communities, and others to network and to plan a bikable healthy future for Southern California.”
The Summit features four keynote speakers from New York City, Portland and Mexico, all with stories and experiences that Southern California can learn from. I used to have the pleasure of working with one of these speakers – Noah Budnick from Transportation Alternatives in New York City, and am excited he’ll be in town.
The Summit also features nearly 20 workshops. I will be leading one of these workshops: Overcoming the Barriers of Bicycling through Social Networking. The workshop will explore the BikeSage concept and launch our effort to begin recruiting a larger community of BikeSages in Southern California. I encourage you to attend if you’re interested in inspiring other people to start riding a bicycle.
Please register today for the L.A. Bike Summit if you plan on attending. I hope to see you there.
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The Bike Summit offered an overwhelming number of panel discussions and presentations. I wish I could have seen more. There was the occasional aggressive activist who made a comment that was strong in spirit, but typically off-topic. The session that Ron chaired had a productive discussion and great presentations. The most important thing I learned is that we need to start gathering statistical data in order to be more effective in getting government funding for bicycle projects.