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Bike / Ped Advocates Workshop

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Charlie Gandy
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 |1:00-2:30pm (Part 1) and 3:00-4:30pm (Part 2)

A meeting of minds of bike / walk advocacy leaders across the state, facilitated by BikeTexas founder and lifetime bicycle advocate Charlie Gandy. As an attendee, you will have the opportunity to share successes and challenges with your peers and get help [...read more]

KEYNOTE: John Burke, President, Trek Bicycle

John Burke
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 at 7:30 – 9:00am
• AICP CM’s applied for

The Country with the Greatest Potential for Bicycling – the United States!

John Burke has wowed audiences from Taipai to Washington D.C. with his vision for a better America, one that includes dramatic increases in bicycling for transportation, recreation, and health. [...read more]

Modeling the Benefits of Green Infrastructure: A Case Study of Houston’s Bayou Greenway Initiative

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Sue Darcy, John Havenstrite
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 10:45am – 12:00pm
• AICP CM’s applied for • CEPH Eligible

Two members of Marsh Darcy Partners will discuss how they happened to develop a model to measure the benefits of linear green infrastructure. The model, commissioned by the Houston Parks Board for their Bayou [...read more]

KEYNOTE: Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis

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Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 12:00 – 2:00pm
• AICP CM’s applied for

Bringing Racial and Socio-Economic Diversity to Cycling

Senator Rodney Ellis is an African American state legislator from Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the United States where he represents one of the most racially and socio-economically diverse senatorial districts [...read more]

How-to Guide to the Texas Paddling Trails Program

Melissa Parker BF, MS
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 3:30 – 4:45pm
• AICP CM’s applied for

Expand your community’s trails program to the water! This program will introduce you to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Texas Paddling Trails Program. After going statewide with a model of working with local community partners in 2006 [...read more]

KEYNOTE: Congressman James Oberstar

Congressman James L. Oberstar
Thursday, February 2, 2012 | 6:00 – 7:30pm
• AICP CM’s applied for

Active Transportation: Lessons from Europe

America should be doing more to encourage passenger rail, urban transit, and bicycling than we are today. Congressman Oberstar brings over 50 years’ experience in the Transportation Committee in Washington D.C.

He will discuss his recent survey [...read more]