New England Bike-Walk Summit

We loved seeing all of you, connecting and reconnecting. There's so much positive energy and momentum when we work together. See you in 2020 for the next New England Summit! 

Presentations from the 2018 Summit:

• Opening Plenary: Innovation & Collaboration: The Road Towards Bike Equity in Boston

• Keynote by Dennis Markatos-Soriano, exective director of East Coast Greenway Alliance

• More than Concrete: How Effective Collaboration and Engagement in Trail Design Can Create Long-term Value

  • Aleece D’Onofrio and Andrew Kohr (Stantec)

• Planning the Upper Charles Trail Route through Ashland, MA
  • Charlie Creagh (Alta Planning + Design)

• Walking Our Way to Age-Friendly Communities

  • Adi Nochur (WalkBoston)

• Design Challenges from the Safe Routes to School Program in Rhode Island

  • Angela Saunders (McMahon Associates)

• Ball & Socket Arts - Once We Build It, They Will Ride There

  • Kevin Daly, Ilona Somogyi and Jeffrey Guimond (Ball & Socket Arts)

• Ogunquit: Transforming a Small Community into a Bicycle and Pedestrian Friendly Town
  • Patrick Adams (Maine Department of Transportation) and Charley LaFlamme (Ogunquit Bicycle-Pedestrian Committee)
• Cape Cod Rail Trail – Provincetown to the Canal

  • Dan Driscoll (Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation), Jeffrey Colby (Town of Yarmouth), Paul Tilton (Town of Sandwich) and Steve Rhoads  (VHB)

• City Walk: Writing Robust Community Engagement into Complete Streets Projects

  • Alex Ellis (City of Providence), Jason DeGray (Toole Design Group) and Pegah Rahmanian (Youth in Action)

• Mattapan on Wheels: Engaging Teens Through Cycling

  • Shavel’le Olivier (Mattapan on Wheels)

• The Bold Coast Scenic Bikeway: Building Bicycle Tourism and Local Biking Culture in DownEast Maine

  • Kim Anderson True (Bicycle Coalition of Maine) and Crystal Hitchings (Washington County Council of Governments)

• Imagine People Here: Demonstration Projects as Planning/Advocacy Tools

  • Jim Tassé, Bicycle Coalition of Maine (BCM)

• Creating Connections: The Jack A. Markell Trail
  • Jeff Niezgoda (Delaware Dept. of Transportation) and Jeff Riegner (Whitman, Requardt & Associates) 
• Growing Bicycle Travel and Tourism for Economic Development (and Much More) 
  • Jeff Miller (Cycle Life HQ)
• Building a Vision Zero Action Plan: A Small City Experience
  • Raymond Hayhurst (AECOM)
• The East Bay Bike Path 30 Years Later: What Have We Learned?
  • John Shevlin and Amy Archer (Pare Corporation)
• Cycling Without Age: The Right to Wind in Your Hair!
  • Kevin Sullivan (Cycling Without Age)

If your presentation is not posted and you would like it to be added, please send a PDF version to Marissa O'Neill.

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