The Iowa Bicycle Summit is now a multi-day combination of the: Iowa Safe Routes to School Conference (Jan 28); Bike Facility and Planning Sessions presented by the Iowa DOT(Jan 29); Advocates & Consumers Sessions (Jan 30); Iowa Bike Expo presented by Continental (Jan 30); and Route Announcement presented by RAGBRAI(Jan 30). Make plans to attend
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Register today for the virtual Iowa Bicycle Summit on January 29 at www.iowabicyclesummit.com/register. I am excited to announce our first speaker — Charles Brown, MPA is a self-proclaimed “street-level researcher,” working at the intersection of transportation, health, and equity. He serves as a senior researcher with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) and adjunct professor at the Edward
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Register today for the virtual Iowa Bicycle Summit on January 29 at www.iowabicyclesummit.com/register. Our schedule is nearly final and we are excited to bring Annie Peyton to the Iowa Bicycle Summit. Annie Peyton works with the National Association of City Transportation Officials – Global Designing Cities Initiative, an organization working to improve street design for people walking, cycling, and taking
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Register today for the virtual Iowa Bicycle Summit on January 29 at www.iowabicyclesummit.com/register. Our schedule now includes Colin Harris who will present on the Quick Build Guide. In this presentation, we will share a new Quick-Build Guide for quickly and inexpensively creating safe spaces on our streets for people to travel by bike, on foot, on a
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I have had the pleasure of trailing alongside Russ Roca and Laura Crawford from Path Less Pedaled. Russ and Laura hail from Oregon, where there is a lot of great things going on. The Coalition arranged to have them present at three locations this week – Council Bluffs, Perry, and Ankeny. This follows a presentation
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Iowa Bicycle Summit features Lydon during annual conference on January 24, 2014 in Des Moines at the Iowa Events Center. The 9th annual Iowa Bicycle Summit will be led by Mike Lydon, principal, The Street Plans Collaborative in New York City. Lydon will lead a day-long session on bicycle facility design for planners, engineers, and
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