 Bob Patten |
Bob Patten is currently a Project Planner with Sprinkle Consulting Inc (MD) while chairing the DC Committee for the East Coast Greenway. Patten has more than ten years of experience in the field of non-motorized transportation, including national policy work with the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) and local trail planning both as a professional with DC government, and as a volunteer with the Washington Area Bicyclists Association and the Coalition for the Metropolitan Branch Trail. Over the course of his career, Patten founded the National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse at RTC, organized a successful campaign to secure $2.5 million in ISTEA funding to complete 13 miles of the 24-mile Anacostia Tributary Trail System in Prince George's County, and became the first full-time trail planner hired by the District of Columbia.
Patten is nationally recognized as an expert on the Federal Transportation Enhancements Program and has extensive knowledge of national transportation law and policy. For seven years he was employed by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC), one of America's leading trails organizations, where he authored/edited a wide range of trail policy and funding reports and technical briefs developed for state and local bike & trail planners and advocates. He also provided on-call technical assistance to bicycle and trail planners regarding, planning best practices, capital project development processes, state funding policies, federal financing regulations, and trail design issues. Combining his formal training in communications with 25 years of experience, Patten is a proven public speaker, educator and meeting facilitator. He has expertise in organizing effective educational presentations, translating technical and bureaucratic subjects into common English, facilitating public meetings and managing controversy in a public setting. He has made presentations at more than 75 workshops and conferences, planned and conducted more than a dozen training seminars and three national conferences, and facilitated the meetings of many small groups, task teams, committees and boards. |