Active Transportation meetings, surveys and news for the week starting, Monday, 5.16.22.

Events

• Bike Everywhere Month– Spokane Bicycle Club
  • Annual Pancake Breakfast – 7:30am at Riverfront Park, Monday May 16
  • Special Guest – Senator Andy Billig
  • Information Here
• Spokane Summer Parkways
  • Tuesday, June 21, 6-9pm
  • Information Here
• Spokane Thursday Night Rides – Shacktown
  • Info posted here
• Cascade Bicycle Club Events Schedule
  • Online Here 

Meetings

• Spokane City Council
  • Monday, May 16 – Briefing at 3:30pm, Legislative @6pm, Open to the Public
  • Topics of interest: Traffic Calming Project Analysis Contract Approval
  • Agenda Here
• Bicycle Advisory Board
  • Tuesday May 17 @ 6pm – Open to the Public
  • Topics of Interest: Six-Year Streets Program, Construction Detours
  • Agenda Here
• Citizen’s Transportation Advisory Board
  • Wednesday May 18 @ 5:30pm
  • Topics of Interest: Complete Streets Grants, Shared-Use Path Considerations
  • Agenda to be posted Here
• Chestnut-Elm Greenway Study – Virtual Neighborhood Meeting
  • Wednesday May 25 at 5:30pm
  • Details online here

Webinars

• Pop-Ups, Play Streets, and Placemaking – Safe Routes
  • Tuesday, May 17 at 10am PDT
  • Register Here
• Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Actions for Long-Term Change – Smart Growth Online
  • Wednesday, May 18 at 10am PDT
  • Information Here
• Prioritizing Transit: The Rose Lanes Project – TREC at PSU
  • Friday, May 20 at 11:30am PDT
  • Details Here
• How E-Bike Incentives Expand the Market – TREC at PSU
  • Recording Here

Resources and Articles

• E-Bikes are Everywhere in Spokane – The Spokesman-Review
  • Article Here
• Denver’s E-Bike Rebate Receives 2,600 Applications in Two Weeks – Denverite
  • Article Here
• Bicycle Stop-As-Yield Laws Shown to Increase Safety, Reduce Crashes – Streetsblog/NHTSA
  • Article Here
• Safe Way to School: Tactical Urbanism Public School Pilot in Georgia – Mobycon
  • Story Here
• Making Bike Counts: A Guide to Better Bike Counts – NACTO
  • Guide Here
• How the Climate Movement can take on Motordom – The Nation
  • Article Here

Conferences

• APBP 2022: Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals
  • August 22-24
  • Minneapolis, MN
  • Information Here
• Designing Cities 2022 – NACTO
  • National Association of City Transportation Officials – NACTO
  • Boston, Cambridge, Somerville
  • September 7-10
  • Program Here
• Velo-City Global 2022: Cycling the Change
  • Llubljana, Slovenia
  • June 14-17
  • Register Here
  • The best ways to reach Velo-City 2022 by foot, bike and train: Article Here

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