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ProBike/ProWalk Florida Conference sessions available online

Laura — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:07:38 +0000

If you were unable to attend the 2010 ProBike/ProWalk Florida conference in Lakeland, you can still take advantage of the terrific sessions. And for those of you who did and had to make tough choices regarding which sessions to attend, now you can enjoy all of them. All sessions are available to download by visiting the site.

2010 ProBike/ProWalk Florida Conference

Laura — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:57:37 +0000

May 11, 2010
8:00 am	to	5:00 pm
May 12, 2010
8:00 am	to	5:00 pm
May 13, 2010
8:00 am	to	5:00 pm

Come to Lakeland for the fifth ProBike/ProWalk Florida Conference “The Dollars and Sense of Bicycling and Walking” brought to you by the Florida Bicycle Association. The conference will be held May 11-13, 2010 at the Lakeland Center. Pre-conference activities will be held May 11. The conference begins May 12. The official host hotel is the Hyatt Place at Lakeland Center. Highlights include:

National, state and local dignitaries

Florida Bicycle Association Annual Meeting and Awards presentation

Educational and advocacy breakout sessions

Mobile Workshops

Continued education credits

Speakers will provide information and data to begin making the case that routinely accommodating pedestrians and cyclists makes total economic sense.

For more information and to register, go HERE!

FBA Winter Board Meeting in Lakeland

Laura — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:53:24 +0000

Join us this weekend, January 8-9, for the FBA Winter Board meeting in Lakeland at the Hyatt Place Lakeland Center, 525 West Orange Street, Lakeland, FL 33815, (863) 4153-1122. When making reservations, use corporate ID #46575 to receive the $89 rate. The fun begins Friday evening from 6:00-8:00 pm for a Meet & Greet at Texas Cattle Company, 735 East Main Street, Lakeland, FL 33801-5038, (863) 686-1434. A Saturday morning bike ride from 7:30-9:00 am originating from the hotel precedes the meeting which begins at 10:00 am. The meeting adjourns at 5:00 pm.

I hope you can join us. Please RSVP if you plan to attend to insure space is available by contacting Laura Hallam at laura@floridabicycle.org.

Call for Papers: PROBIKE/PROWALK FLORIDA 2010 “The Dollars and Sense of Bicycling and Walking”

Laura — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:44:18 +0000

FBA needs your expertise for the ProBike/ProWalk Florida 2010 conference to be held May 11-13 in Lakeland.

At our inaugural Florida Bike Summit at Florida’s state capitol last April, it became very clear that for significant headway to be made at this level – or any level, for that matter – it’s necessary to put dollar values on the benefits of creating communities that are bike/ped-friendly. Likewise, costs associated with not having that kind of environment are just as important. Beyond money spent on bike-related tourism and accompanying tax revenue collected by the state, cycling and walking impacts many aspects of our economy. Some examples include individual and government savings or costs related to health, environmental impacts, and the one with arguably the biggest impact – transportation.

To assist FBA begin what we know will be the complex process of collecting and analyzing credible data, we’ve decided to make bike/ped economics the theme of ProBike/ProWalk Florida 2010. If you think you have something to offer in terms of a conference session topic, please consider submitting a paper that summarizes what you’d like to present by December 1, 2009. We’d also like to get sessions that are appropriate for professional development credits certified for planners, landscape architects, transportation engineers, and other professionals, so please keep that in mind when developing your topic.

Please direct your questions and submit session summaries with the following information to Dan Moser, FBA Program Manager, at dan@floridabicycle.org:

Contact Information, Session Topic, Topic Significance to Conference, Outline of Presentation/Session, Other Proposed Speakers to Compliment Topic, and Date Submitted.

Your input is vital to the overall success of the 5th edition of our conference.

Send Your Message to the National Bike Summit

Laura — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:14:01 +0000

On March 10-13, Board President David Henderson and I, along with 11 other members of Team Florida, will attend the League of American Bicyclists’ National Bike Summit in Washington, DC. The National Bike Summit is our chance to tell members of Congress how the federal government can create a bike friendly America.

Unfortunately, we will not have bicyclists representing all of Florida’s 25 congressional districts to meet with our representatives.

Will you let us bring your voice to Capital Hill?

If so, send your name, a short statement about where you ride or why bicycling is important to you, the name of your congressional representative and the district he/she represents to me at laura@floridabicycle.org. I will make sure a member of Team Florida delivers your message directly to your congressional representative about why bicycling is important to you.

To find the name of your representative, use LAB’s Bicycle Advocacy Center. Enter your zip code in the “Find Your Officials” box and the names of your national and state elected officials will appear. For a quick glance at the Florida Federal Congressional District Map, go HERE to download a PDF file.

You never know if they read your e-mail but the Florida Bicycle Association will guarantee they get your message.

Sincerely,

Laura Hallam
Executive Director

ps, Ask me how you can become a member of Team Florida and join us at the 2010 National Bike Summit.

FBA at National Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference

David Henderson — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:35:49 +0000

FBA Board members Linda Crider, Mighk Wilson and David Henderson chat with former NCBW Executive Director Bill Wilkinson and current NCBW Executive Director Sharon Roerty at the 2010 Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference in Seattle

FBA Board members Mighk Wilson, Linda Crider and David Henderson (and Advisory Board member Dwight Kingsbury) were among the 800 attendees of the national Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference in Seattle September 2-5. This biennial event (from which the Florida Pro Bike/Pro Walk conference takes its name) is put on by the National Center for Bicycling and Walking (NCBW). Over 80 conference sessions and mobile workshops gave participants the latest information on advocacy, bike facility planning and design, educational programs and safety.

Mobile workshops showed the best of Seattle’s bike lanes, shared-use paths, experimental green lanes and “sharrow” projects. Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN) spoke at the closing plenary and told the crowd that although programs like Transportation Enhancements and Safe Routes to School have been successful, advocates must stay in touch with their members of Congress and let them know that bicycling is important to America and must continue to be supported in the next federal transportation bill. The next Pro Walk/Pro Bike will be held in Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 13-17, 2010.

ProBikeProWalk Florida ’07 — Vision and Progress

Mighk — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:13:00 +0000

FBA’s ProBikeProWalk Florida Conference for 2007 is now a wrap, and boy did we cover some ground! We kicked it off Monday with an elected official’s luncheon featuring Canada’s Gil Penalosa, who put cycling facilities and programs and walkable communities in the political context they deserve: the smart leaders are the ones who recognize the value of walkable and bikeable communities. Some of the officials were particularly interested in the Ciclovia concept.

Monday afternoon saw the kickoff of the Florida Traffic Justice Coalition, with leaders in law enforcement, the judicial system, engineering, education, and bicycling advocacy expressing their desires for a safer street system for ALL users, and developing the beginnings of a strategy, with core principles and short term priorities. (More to come on this in a later post.)

The Conference itself ran from Tuesday morning to Thursday afternoon, beginning with impassioned welcomes from City of Orlando Commissioner Patty Sheehan, and Orange County Commissioner Linda Stewart. Metroplan Orlando Executive Director Harold Barley challenged the attendees to “get cranking and step it up!,” because “We are poised at a moment in which cycling and walking are increasingly seen as parts of the solutions to important global issues: health, climate change, energy costs, urban sprawl, traffic safety, and child development. Walking and bicycling shouldn’t be seen as sacrifices for the common good, but as liberation from a broken system.“

The Conserve by Bike Study, ordered by the Florida Legislature and recently released by the Florida Department of Transportation, was a popular topic of discussion. The report shows strong preliminary justification for the provision of bicycling facilities, showing that such facilities do indeed increase cycling, and that the increase in cycling results in significant savings in gasoline consumption, CO2 emissions, and health costs.

The Conference finished up with concurrent meetings of FDOT District bicycle and pedestrian Coordinators, and of local coordinators. Such meetings offer unique opportunities for professionals to strategize ways in which the bureaucracy can function better for cyclists and pedestrians. Look forward to a compelling effort by FBA to communicate key remedies in this area to the Governor’s office.

ProBike®ProWalk Florida 2007

Mighk — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:07:00 +0000

ProBike®ProWalk Florida 2007
Healthy Community Makeovers:
Designs and Programs for Active and Healthy Lifestyles

August 27 – 30, 2007
Orlando, FloridaEmbassy Suites Hotel Downtown
http://www.probikeprowalkflorida.com/

You should attend if:

You walk or ride a bicycle
You care about your community
You care about the environment
You are an educator
You want to make a difference
You have a program or idea to share
You are a health or safety professional
You are an elected official
You are a member of Law Enforcement
You work for a planning or transportation entity
You work for a state agency or department

THE TENTATIVE AGENDA:

Monday August 27— Pre-Conference Workshops
Tuesday August 28— Morning

Welcome— Orlando Commissioner Sheehan and Orange County Commissioner Linda Stewart
Keynote Speaker—Gil Penalosa
FBA—Annual Awards

Tuesday August 28—Afternoon Eight Breakout Sessions
Wednesday August 29 — Sixteen Breakout Sessions
Thursday August 30—Morning Eight Breakout sessions
Thursday August 30—Afternoon Post conference sessions
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Mornings—group walks around downtown & Lake Eola
Evenings—bicycle rides and/or walks
All the time—networking

http://www.probikeprowalkflorida.com/