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Bicycle summit in LA

On March 20, 2010 Professor Robert Gottlieb and his colleagues are pulling together a L.A. Streets Summit: Biking, Walking and Beyond. Bicycles are not a cure all for all our transportation woes, but they sure can go a long way when embedded in intelligent community planning and design. See the web site for this innovative summit at : http://bikesummitla.wetpaint.com/

The 2010 Summit is building upon the very successful Bike Summit of 2009.

LA Bike Summit 2009 (description from Bike Summit web site)
On March 7, 2009, more than 300 bike activists, students, public officials, researchers, and various other bike advocates participated in the day long L.A. Bike Summit at Los Angeles Trade Technical College, just south of downtown Los Angeles. The Bike Summit was a culmination of more than nine months of planning, outreach, and intense discussions about how to advance bike advocacy and help diversify and extend the bike movement, while connecting to the key issues of health, environment, and transportation. With speakers from Mexico City, New York, and Portland, and nineteen workshops covering a wide range of issues, the Summit inspired many of the participants to more deeply engage in furthering the goals of bike advocacy while identifying core needs, including how to further the discussions and collaborations that constituted the Summit. In addition, a series of pre-Summit meetings, discussions, and bike rides provided additional momentum for pursuing a post-Summit agenda for future gatherings and collaborations.