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Bike San Diego Wins National Advocacy Award, Sets Sights Higher
Bike San Diego won this year's Advocacy Organization of the Year award from the Alliance for Biking and Walking at the National Bike Summit earlier this month in Washington, D.C. Pretty good for an all-volunteer-run organization that has only been around for a little over a year.
March 17, 2014
Next Week’s L.A. StreetSummit: Workshops and Pre-Registration
Photo: Lisa “no relation” Newton/Flickr Last year’s Bike Summit is this year’s StreetSummit, taking place next week – Thursday March 18th and Saturday March 20th. The summit features opening keynote speakers, and a day full of workshops and networking. It’s hosted by the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, which urges attendees to pre-register online by … Continued
March 9, 2010
New York’s Game Changer, Janette Sadik-Khan, Will Visit L.A. This March
Occidental College's UEPI Blog announced earlier this morning that this year's keynote speaker for the Bike Summit will be none other than New York City's Livable Streets Hero Janette Sadik-Khan. For those of you that have never read the original Streetsblog or any of my New York-related stories; Sadik-Khan rose to be Commissioner of NYCDOT and immediately changed the department's goals from car-culture defenders to Portland-esque urban planners.
November 16, 2009
Bike Summit Panel: Safety in the Inner City
(editor's note: I'm told to expect more of these videos from the Bike Summit and as they are finnished, I'll post them here at Streetsblog.)
March 13, 2009
Tweeting Bike Activism
Following up on one of the suggestions I received last weekend at the Bike Summit, Los Angeles Streetsblog has created a twitter account named "labikes" which will inform cyclists of action alerts, public meetings, and action alerts to help the community get more involved with issues as they come up. Unlike Streetsblog or other bike tweets, these will be "just the facts" to connect people to the meetings and issues. For example, labikes just tweeted:
March 10, 2009
Bike Summit Keynotes: Change Can Only Come with Inspired Leaders
Four very different speakers, with different backgrounds and from three different cities, traveled to Los Angeles to inspire local cyclists to bring change to our streets. While each of these leaders told different stories and had different experiences, each had a common theme: to see the change we want, we need an educated and inspired city leadership.
March 9, 2009
So, You Can’t Make the Bike Summit
Now I know there are those among you that can't make the Bike Summit tomorrow for whatever reason. Don't worry, for those of you that can't make it, Streetsblog will have full coverage of all the keynote speakers on Monday as well as links to other writers takes on different happenings throughout the course of the weekend.
March 6, 2009
Bike Summit Weekend Kicks Off with Press Conference and Meetings
Perhaps the strongest case for increased bike investment was made by Los Angeles Trade Tech professor Denise Fairchild who noted that "For many communities of color, bicycling is the only way to get around. To not have infrastructure for them is just part of the social injustice that is experienced."
March 6, 2009
Bike Summit Now a Four-Day Affair
(editor's note: I just wanted to give everyone a head's up that in order to both cover and participate in all of the Bike Summit events over the next four days, posting may end up being somewhat less regular than you've grown used to. Rest assured, this is temporary, and we'll be back to normal posting next week.)
March 4, 2009