Please join the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin for the 2010 Wisconsin Bike
Summit on April 21stand Lobby Day on April 22nd.
Last year at the 2009 Wisconsin Bike Summit over 450 bicycle leaders from
around the stategathered in Madison to celebrate Wisconsin bicycling. We
learned how bicycling can be a simple solution to our state's health, economic
and mobility challenges. We learned that Wisconsin is uniquely positioned to be
one of the world's great bicycle places. Most importantly, we asked our
legislative leaders to support a more bicycle-friendly Wisconsin through the
following legislation: increased funding for bicycle infrastructure, one of the
country's first state-wide Complete Streets statues, and an anti-dooring law to
protect bicyclist's position on the roadways.
Within 60 days of the 2009 Summit all three pieces of legislation were signed
in to law by Governor Doyle. We joined together, we asked, and we created a
more bicycle friendly Wisconsin!
The 2010 Wisconsin Bike Summit is going to be even bigger and more exciting.
We've expanded the program to include informative and interactive breakout
sessions:
* "From Planning to Implementation: Safe Routes to School Programs in
Action" lead by Wisconsin's Safe Routes to School expert practitioners.
* "Bicycle Friendly Wisconsin" lead by the national expert Andy Clarke,
President of the League of American Bicyclist. The session will also include
lessons learned from Milwaukeeand La Crosse leaders.
* "Building Community Partnerships for Effective Bicycle Trails
Advocacy" lead by La Crosse's Human Powered Trails.
* "How to Build an Economic Case for Your Community to Develop &
MaintainMountain Bike Trails" lead by the Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike
Association.
* "Wisconsin Mountain Biking Forum" organized by the Wisconsin Off-Road
Bicycling Association, Human Powered Trails and the International Mountain
Bicycling Association.
These sessions will be followed by a plenary session at 6 p.m. Our keynote
speaker is Andreas Røhl, the head of the City of Copenhagen's Bicycle Program.
In central Copenhagen residents and visitors take over 50% of all their
trips--to work, to the store, running errands--by bike. Andreas is going to
share Copenhagen's inspiring story and show us a path to make Wisconsin among
the world's great bicycling places.
Click here to see an inspiring BBC interview, "Cycling is like brushing your
teeth," with Andreas.
Click here for a fun music video on Copenhagen Cycling.
Following Andreas' presentation, Chris Fortune, president of Saris Cycling
Group, will lead a panel of Wisconsin political, business and civic who will
have just return from a tour of the great cycling cities in Europe. The panel
will include trip attendees Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz,Dane County Executive
Kathleen Falk, UW Associate Vice Chancellor Al Fish, and others. Their stories
of great bicycling in Europe will certainly inspire us to continue creating
world-class bicycling in Wisconsin.
Summit and Lobby Day registration is only $25. More detail can be found on our
website here or in the attached document.
I look forward to seeing you in Madison on April 21st.
Aaron
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