Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Registration nearly full for Fairfax Bike Summit
We have a great lineup of speakers:
- Supervisor Cathy Hudgins, Hunter Mill District - Welcome
- Josh Cantor, Director of Parking and Transportation, George Mason University - Welcome
- Andy Clarke, President of the League of American Bicyclists and a Fairfax County resident - Fixing the suburbs
- Tom Biesiadny, Director of the Fairfax County Department of Transportation - Fairfax County Bicycle Master Plan
- Aaron Georgelas, Partner, Georgelas Group - Remaking Tysons
- Randy Dittberner, Traffic engineer, VDOT - Better Roads
- Christine Green, National Safe Routes to School Partnership - Safe Routes to School
- Chris Eatough, BikeArlington, six time endurance cycling world champion - BikeArlington
- Fionnuala Quinn, Civil engineer, FABB vice chair - Who cycles? Growing Cycling Participation
- Charlie Denney, Alta Planning+Design - Bikesharing for Fairfax
- Anne Mader, Co-owner, The Bike Lane - Sports & Recreational Biking
- Stewart Schwartz, Executive Director, Coalition for Smarter Growth - Future Challenge
We will also be giving two special awards of appreciation. There will be representatives from several area bike shops with samples of transportation bikes and gear. Reps from several bike organizations will also be present.
At the end of the summit, at 2pm, there will be a guided bike tour of the GMU campus highlighting the many new bike facilities installed over the past couple of years. Loaner bikes will be available from the GMU bike share program and from The Bike Lane.
At the end of the summit, at 2pm, there will be a guided bike tour of the GMU campus highlighting the many new bike facilities installed over the past couple of years. Loaner bikes will be available from the GMU bike share program and from The Bike Lane.
If you are attending the summit, please consider coming by bike. There will be free indoor bike valet parking provided thanks to GMU volunteers and bike racks from bikes@vienna. If you like more information or would like to volunteer, contact Bruce Wright, chairman@fabb-bikes.org.
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