Report #1, Monday, March 3
Keynote Speakers – Phillip Darnton, Executive Director, Bicycle Association of Great Britain, and Andy Clarke, President, League of American Bicyclists
How to be successful in bicycling advocacy…
- Focus programs
- Work with the willing (rather than wasting energy on those who are not)
- Talk to people who want to listen
Keys to success- Get a mayor (and city council or county supervisor) on board (most successes come from local leaders of change)
- Continuity of effort and communication
- Work on building resources: People, organizations, sources of funding, etc.
- Emphasize route networks and connectivity (broken and incomplete routes/networks don’t encourage people to ride)
- Have a long term strategy/plan/goal to provide a framework for shorter term projects and “asks” and to help maintain priority perspective
- Train children to ride at ages 8-12. This is the critical time when persons incorporate bicycling into their lives…or not
- Women need to feel safe bicycling…they determine whether children ride, or not, which affects the next generation’s view of bicycling
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