Sunday, October 21
1.00 - 4.00 pm Community Bike Ride [ click here for photos of the ride! ]
Public event - meet at Boston City Hall Plaza, bring a helmet, 14 miles of casual scenic biking around Boston.
- Doug Mink, MassBike MetroBoston Chapter. So there’s lots of talk about bicycling in Boston at the Boson Bikes Summit, but how about doing some biking? MassBike MetroBoston Chapter invites you on a casual ride. Led by Doug Mink, long-time bicycle advocate.
Click here for the two possible 14-mile rides, scroll down to “Boston Bikes Summit.”
5.30 - 7.00 pm Bike Advocate Stakeholder Meeting
Invitation Only *
- Members of the Bikes Summit team will meet with long-time and current bicyle advocates.
Monday, October 22
12.30 - 2.00 pm Brownbag lunch discussion: State and Regional Bike Plans
Public event - Room 933, Boston City Hall
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bicycle Plan 2007 invited
Josh Lehman (Bicycle-Pedestrian Program Manager, Executive Office of Transportation)
Bill Schwartz (Planners Collaborative) - Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) Bicycle Plan 2006
Anna Biton (Transportation/Land Use Planner, MAPC) - Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR)
Dan Driscoll (Director of the DCR Office of Bikeways & Green Infrastructure)
Gary Briere (DCR Director of Recreation)
2.30 - 3.00 pm Mayor kick-off of Boston Bikes Summit
Invitation Only *
- Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino
- Nicole Freedman, Director Boston Bikes program
- Steve Madden, Editor of Bicycling magazine
- Andy Clarke, League of American Bicyclists
- David Watson, Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition (MassBike)
5.30 - 6.30 pm Recreational Bicycling Stakeholder Meeting
Invitation Only *
- Members of the Bikes Summit team will meet with recreational bicycle organizations
7.00 - 9.00 pm “Role of Bicycling in World Class Cities” town-hall meeting
Public event - Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston
- Steve Madden, Editor of Bicycling magazine
- Kenneth Kruckemeyer, Associate Commissioner Massachusetts Department of Public Works (1983 - 1991)
- James Hunt, City of Boston Chief of Environmental and Energy Services
- Discussion led by Jeff Rosenblum (LivableStreets Alliance), Andy Clark (LAB)
Tuesday, October 23
8.30 - 11.00 am Engineering Facilities Design Workshop
Invitation Only *
- Nick Jackson (Chicago Bicycleland Federation)
- Jennifer Toole (Toole Design Group)
Attending will be representatives from Boston Transportation Department, Boston Public Works Department, BRA Cross Roads Initiative, MassHighway, Consultants to the City of Boston, MBTA, and advocacy groups such as MassBike, LivableStreets Alliance, Adaptive Environments, and WalkBoston.
12.30 - 2.00 pm Brown-bag lunch discussion: Bicycling and Health
Public event - Room 937, Boston City Hall
- Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
- Steven Miller, Chair of the Massachusetts Health / Transportation working group
2.00 - 5.00 pm Study Tour: City of Cambridge, Department of Conservation & Recreation facilities
Invitation Only *
The purpose of the Study Tour is to see (and experience) first hand issues involving improved accommodation of cyclists in street design. It will include: bicycle lanes, tight cross sections, special turning issues, “bike boxes”, traffic calming, road diets, contra-flow lanes, blue pavement markings, European-style “cycle tracks”, connectivity issues to DCR facilities.
- Organized and facilitated by: Jeff Rosenblum (LivableStreets Alliance)
- Dan Driscoll (Department of Conservation and Recreation)
- Sue Clippinger, Jeff Parenti, Cara Seiderman (City of Cambridge)
3.30 - 5.00 pm Roundtable 1: Enforcement and Bicycling
Invitation Only *
- Facilitated by David Watson (MassBike)
- Paul Schimek (MassBike)
- Sargent Kathleen Murphy (Cambridge Police Department)
- Neil Blackington (Boston EMS, IPMBA)
7.00 - 9.00 pm Community open houses
Public event - see below for specific locations
- Jamaica Plain / Roxbury / Roslindale
Agassiz School, 20 Child Street, Jamaica Plain
Click for map. - Allston / Brighton
Allston/Brighton CDC, 320 Washington Street (3rd floor), Brighton
Click for map. - Dorchester / Mattapan
VietAid Great Hall, 42 Charles Street, Dorchester
Click for map.
Wednesday, October 24
8.30 - 10.00 am Roundtable 2: Bicycling and Education
Invitation Only *
- Led by John Ciccarelli (Bicycle Solutions)
- Kim Foltz, Elijah Evans (BikesNotBombs Youth Programs: Earn-a-bike, Girls in Action)
- Andrew Prescott (Urban AdvenTours, “City Bike Trips for Boston Youth”, Citizen School “Bike and Body Maintenance” class)
- David Watson (MassBike, Safe Routes to School)
10.30 am - noon Bicycling 101 / Street Skills Class
Postponed… *
12.30 - 2.00 pm Brown-bag lunch discussion: Bicycling and Economic Development
Public event - Room 933, Boston City Hall
- Jennifer Toole, Toole Design Group
- Bhupesh Patel, DesignTank
- David Straus, A Better City (ABC)
2.00 - 3.30 pm Roundtable 3: Bicycling Encouragement
Invitation Only *
- Led by Nicole Freedman (City of Boston)
- Andy Clark (League of American Bicyclists)
5.30 - 6.30 pm Bike Shops / Businesses Stakeholder Meeting
Invitation Only *
- Members of the Bikes Summit team will meet with bicycle shops and bicycle businesses
7.00 - 9.00 pm “Boston Bikes: past, present, and future” presentation
Public event - Conference Room B, Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston
Discover Boston’s rich history of bicycling, why Boston is a great city for bicycling, and imagine the possibilities for our future. The expert team will present their findings along with a set of short-term recommendations for better bicycling in Boston.
- Rich Olken, former executive director of Bikes Belong Coalition
- Doug Mink, Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition (MassBike)
- Expert team (led by Andy Clarke, League of American Bicyclists)
* For Invitation Only events: If you are interested in attending any of these programs, please email Nicole Freedman (see contact info to the right) with your name and affiliation. You will be notified if space is available.
