Abstract: Leaders from some of the country's most sophisticated local transportation advocacy organizations will share the secrets of their campaigns to build networks of protected bike lanes, from a multi-year initiative to transform San Francisco's flatter streets to a battle to build hundreds miles of protected bike lanes in Chicago to tackling the most difficult projects in an already Platinum-level city. Presenters: Presenter: Mary Lauran Hall Alliance for Biking & Walking Co-Presenter: Ron Burke Active Transportation Alliance Co-Presenter: Chema Hernández Gil San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Co-Presenter: Rob Sadowsky Bicycle Transportation Alliance

1. Connecting Our Cities
Lessons for Building
Protected Bike Lane Networks

2. Mary Lauran Hall
Alliance for Biking & Walking
Chema Hernández Gil
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Rob Sadowsky
Bicycle Transportation Alliance (OR)
Ron Burke
Active Transportation Alliance

3. Mary Lauran Hall
Alliance for Biking & Walking
Chema Hernández Gil
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Rob Sadowsky
Bicycle Transportation Alliance (OR)
Ron Burke
Active Transportation Alliance

4. Connecting the City:
100 Miles of Crosstown
Bikeways for Everyone
Connecting Our Cities:
Lessons for Building Protected
Bike Lane Networks
Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place
September 2014
Pittsburgh, PA

5. The Goal:
Three “8-80” Routes

6. The Need:
More and More People are
Biking

7. Market Street:
The Heart of SF

8. Polk Street:
Ebb and Flow
From protected contraflow lane…
to bike lane…
to sharrows

9. The Bike Funding
Challenge
To meet current need and future demand,
San Francisco needs to invest $10 billion
in transportation infrastructure through
2030. With $3.7 billion already identified,
that leaves a $6.3 billion gap.

10. Building Power
and Allies
Connecting the City requires allies.

11. Vision Zero
Complementing CTC
Building alliances with pedestrian and
community advocates for safer streets
and more transportation funding.

12. Mary Lauran Hall
Alliance for Biking & Walking
Chema Hernández Gil
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Rob Sadowsky
Bicycle Transportation Alliance (OR)
Ron Burke
Active Transportation Alliance

13. The
Portland
Experience

14. Portlandia
-­‐-­‐
#4?
Hah!

15. It
always
takes
work

16. Numbers up but slowing down

17. Gentrifica?on
&
Community
Needs

18. Campaigns
That
Engage

19. Mary Lauran Hall
Alliance for Biking & Walking
Chema Hernández Gil
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Rob Sadowsky
Bicycle Transportation Alliance (OR)
Ron Burke
Active Transportation Alliance

20. Advancing
Protected Bike
Lanes in
Chicago
Ron Burke, Active
Transportation Alliance

22. “When Richard M. Daley took office in 1989, bicycling was not
very visible in Chicago. There were a few riders, very few. There
were no bike lanes, no racks on the sidewalks and no city
promotion of cycling. He has taken us from a city where bikes
were fringe to a place where cycling is a planned-for and cared-for
part of Chicago. For that we’re grateful. We still need to get
to where bikes are mainstream, but we’re well on our way
because of Mayor Daley’s leadership.”
- Randy Neufeld, commenting shortly before Mayor Daley left
office in 2011.

27. 27
Chicago Sun Times
Protected bike lanes help business
As business owners on Milwaukee Avenue, we fully support the cit1y
’s proposal to
install protected bike lanes, reconfigure parking and make safety improvements
on our street from Kinzie to Elston. We appreciate the city’s thorough outreach on
this project.
Unfortunately, the perspective of the many residents and businesses that support the project wasn’t included in the Sun-Times May
1 article, “Tension rises at city bike plan hearing.”
These street improvements for the city’s most popular street for cycling will make our neighborhood safer for everyone and help our
businesses grow by creating a more livable street. By framing the issue in terms of cyclists vs. anti-cyclists, your coverage overlooks
the fact that most city dwellers (and business owners) don’t fit into exclusive categories when it comes to how we get around.
We all benefit from safer streets with more orderly traffic. A close look at the public plans shows that there’s a lot more than just bike
lanes and parking spaces going on — overall it will make our street a more comfortable place to hang out, helping us to attract more
customers and greater investment into our neighborhood. What we’re up against here is a chaotic and unsafe roadway that stifles
economic activity. This is the story you should be telling.
Tim Coonan, Big Shoulders Cafe;
Chris Dunstatter,
694 Wine and Spirits;
Angelo Karras, Windy City Cafe

29. "But the direction Chicago -- and so many other cities -- is taking to enhance bike lanes and provide
healthy, convenient and safe transportation options for all is an exciting one that we all need to
embrace.” Beth Mosher, director of public affairs for AAA Chicago.

31. Milwaukee Ave: Before and After
New Bike Lane and Complete
Sts Design

34. Bicycling Magazine
Chicago Named Second Best U.S. City for Cycling

35. Mary Lauran Hall
MLHall@BikeWalkAlliance.org
Chema Hernández Gil
Chema@SFBike.org
Rob Sadowsky
Rob@BTAOregon.org
Ron Burke
Ron@ActiveTrans.org