We're getting excited about the upcoming Bike Summit organized by the California Bicycle Coalition. It's not too late to register for the biannual event, which will take place on October 25-28 in San Diego.
Some of the highlights we're hoping to catch include:
Sessions on Open Streets events like CicLAvia and Sunday Streets, including how to get the ball rolling and the nuts and bolts of creating a successful event. [PDF]
An update on the first-ever California statewide bike plan, as well as other work Caltrans is doing to reach its goal of tripling bicycle mode share. The Bicycle and Pedestrian plan is supposed to be “innovative policy level plan—not a listing of projects, but policies that help us move in a direction that will provide for greater mobility and safety within active transportation,” according to project manager Scott Forsythe. “We want to create a user-friendly document that makes sense to the general public but also provides detailed information for planners to use when working locally.”
Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.
But many advocates are already concerned it could provide funding for more highways. And will it really provide the seamless and equitable transit system everyone says they want?