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NJ Bike & Walk Summit – Register today!

The Planning Committee of the New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition, chaired by board member Karen Jenkins, is pleased to announce several of the exciting sessions and events at the 2013 New Jersey Bike & Walk Summit, to be held on February 23, 2013. Come to the Summit and meet many other leaders of walking and biking from New Jersey, the region and the nation. This marks the fourth consecutive New Jersey Bike & Walk Summit and the second year it will be held in New Brunswick in collaboration with Voorhees Transportation Center at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Rutgers University.

Regards,
Cyndi Steiner
Executive Director

Featured Sessions
MAP-21 and Beyond
Creating a regional bike plan: The Philadelphia Regional Circuit
Walk the Walk: Individual & Community Wellness One Step at a Time
Bicycle Friendly America Program
Bicycle Authors Roundtable
Riding Across the USA
Organizing the New Brunswick Ciclovia
Other Featured Presenters

MAP-21 and Beyond: Our nation’s new transportation bill, and what is next in alternative transportation for America
James Corless is the Director of Transportation for America, a national coalition of over 400 organizations working to promote a new national transportation policy that’s smarter, safer, cleaner and provides more choice. James will discuss how advocates are shaping the next transportation bill to move our nation in a bold new direction of alternative transportation that includes world-class clean transportation, empowered communities with more transportation options and safer streets that ultimately create healthier, more livable places.

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Creating a regional bike plan: The Philadelphia Regional Circuit
A panel to include John Boyle of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and Matt Norris of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign will discuss The Circuit, a regional bike plan in and around the City of Philadelphia and the greater metro area, including the Delaware Valley region of New Jersey. John and Matt will share information on how to create a regional plan and why regional bike and trail plans are important in providing connectivity from one community to another, thereby enabling bicycling as a viable transportation option.

Walk the Walk: Individual & Community Wellness One Step at a Time
To walk is as basic to human life as breathing, eating and other activities we take for granted. This expert panel will explore the intersection between walking and public health, walking advocacy, the behavioral impact of walking and strategies for individual motivation. Learn how to promote unique walking programs in your community and how integrating walking into your daily life can change the way you live. The Moderator is Risa Olinsky, M.A. Certified Wellcoach® and Founder, Count on Yourself Coaching & Integrative Medicine Practitioner with Atlantic Health System. Panelists include Yolanda Savage-Narva, MSEd., Campaign Director at America Walks, Cornelia Santschi, Ph.D, Neuropsychologist, Neuro/Biofeedback Provider and Founder of the Anatta World Health & Education Outreach, and Paul Kiczek, Founder, FreeWalkers.org which challenges New Jerseyans to walk long distances in organized events.

Bicycle Friendly America Program
Moderated by Debbie Kingsland of NJDOT, panelists Nicole Wynands of the League of American Bicyclists, Arthur Chew from Ocean City, NJ, Susan Poliwka from Hoboken and Andrea DeRose of Princeton University will discuss the League’s Bicycle Friendly program for communities, universities and businesses, what the program means, and how you can get your comunity involved.

Bicycle Authors Roundtable
Professor David Burleigh of Stockton State College will host a gathering of some America’s most knowledgeable contemporary bicycle authors. They include:

• Sue Macy, author of Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way). A graduate of Princeton University, Sue grew up in Clifton and currently lives in Englewood. In 2012, Sue gave the keynote address at the first-ever National Women Cycling Forum in Washington, DC.
• David Herlihy, author of Bicycling: The History, a book which many herald as THE definitive guide to bicycling history, and The Lost Cyclist.
• Michael Gabriele, author of The Golden Age of Bicycle Racing in New Jersey, which re-establishes the state’s claim as the “cradle of cycling” for the United States. Michael is a lifelong resident of the Garden State.

Riding Across the USA
Moderator Bruce Weber is a New York Times reporter who rode across America twice, once in 1993 and again in 2011. Each time his journeys were featured reports in the newspaper and his 2011 trip became the subject of his book, Life is a Wheel. He will host a panel of cyclists from the Major Taylor Cycling Club of New Jersey who rode across the US using different methods and approaches. Mr. Weber traveled in a slower self-sufficient manner, taking 13 weeks with all of his belongings stuffed into saddlebags on his bicycle. By contrast, two members of the MTCCNJ completed their journey in the summer of 2011 in a mere 28 days with a support vehicle and four more in 2012 self-supported.

Organizing the New Brunswick Ciclovia – From Idea to Launch
The City of New Brunswick in partnership with New Brunswick Tomorrow will launch the first ciclovia, or “open streets”, in New Jersey in 2013. Panelists include Fatimah Williams Castro, Ph.D. of New Brunswick Tomorrow and New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids-New Brunswick, Glenn Patterson, Director of Planning, Community & Economic Development, City of New Brunswick and Melissa Selesky, Member, John. J. Heldrich Institute for Leadership Development and Director, Office of Community Affairs at Rutgers University. They will cover key topics such as building support, member recruitment, designing a route, and creating a strong planning team and operating structure.

Other Featured Presenters
Darrin Anderson is the Associate Executive Director of the New Jersey YMCA Alliance, and Deputy Director of the NJ Partnership for Healthy Kids; he is responsible for the daily operations of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation‘s State Program Office for Childhood Obesity Prevention and other YMCA initiatives.

Ken Podziba is the president and CEO of Bike New York, whose mission is to facilitate and promote cycling in New York City through education and public events as well as collaboration with both community organizations and municipal agencies. He joined Bike New York in 2010 and has helped expand Bike New York’s free education programs to include all five boroughs, year round classes, nine summer camp program sites for underserved children and multilingual classes. As a result of his efforts, Bike New York’s education program reached over 12,000 children and adults in 2012.

New Brunswick Mayor James Cahill will open the summit. In 2012, under the Mayor’s leadership, the city installed miles of bicycle lanes and Shared Lane Markings, or Sharrows. His push to increase bicycle safety and access is the natural next step for a city that is the home of one of the nation’s largest universities and complements previous progress by the city to do the same for pedestrians.

To register for the NJ Bike & Walk Summit, visit the registration page on EventBrite. Pre-registration closes on February 21 at midnight. Registration will be available on the morning of the Summit, for an additional $15 per registrant. Register today!