May 27, 2022

News, events, meetings and rides for the week starting Monday, May 30, 2022.

Events

Meetings

  • No meetings this week
  • Regularly scheduled City Council meeting canceled in light of the Memorial Day holiday

Webinars

  • Continuing Dialogue: SGA’s Shared Spaces and Health Equity Report – Smart Growth America
  • Thursday, June 2 at 11am-12pm PDT
  • Learn more and register here
  • Safety Interventions for Houseless Pedestrians – TREC at PSU
  • Friday, June 3 at 11:30am-12:30pm PDT
  • Learn more and register here
  • World Bicycle Day 2022: How will the bicycle shape our future? – European Cyclists Federation
  • Friday, June 3 at 5:30am PDT (2:30pm CEST)
  • Register Here
  • Scooting to Healthy and Safe Mode Choices – NITC
  • Tuesday, June 7 at 10am-11am PDT
  • Learn more and register here

Resources and Articles

  • How to Make a City Safer for E-bikes? Think Infrastructure — Bloomberg
  • Article Here
  • OPINION: Feds Must Make New Cars Safer for Bikers, Too – Streetsblog
  • Article Here
  • The E-bike Effect is Transforming New York City – Bloomberg/Citylab
  • Article Here
  • How E-Scooters are Transforming Tel-Aviv – Bloomberg/Citylab
  • Article Here
  • How the bicycle transformed Ljubljana into a more livable city – ECF 
  • Article Here

Conferences

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

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