We loved seeing all of you, connecting and reconnecting. There's so much positive energy and momentum when we work together. See you in 2020 for the next New England Summit!
Presentations from the 2018 Summit:
Opening Plenary: Innovation & Collaboration: The Road Towards Bike Equity in Boston
Keynote by Dennis Markatos-Soriano, exective director of East Coast Greenway Alliance
Aleece D’Onofrio and Andrew Kohr (Stantec)
Walking Our Way to Age-Friendly Communities
Adi Nochur (WalkBoston)
Design Challenges from the Safe Routes to School Program in Rhode Island
Angela Saunders (McMahon Associates)
Kevin Daly, Ilona Somogyi and Jeffrey Guimond (Ball & Socket Arts)
Dan Driscoll (Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation), Jeffrey Colby (Town of Yarmouth), Paul Tilton (Town of Sandwich) and Steve Rhoads (VHB)
City Walk: Writing Robust Community Engagement into Complete Streets Projects
Alex Ellis (City of Providence), Jason DeGray (Toole Design Group) and Pegah Rahmanian (Youth in Action)
Mattapan on Wheels: Engaging Teens Through Cycling
Shavel’le Olivier (Mattapan on Wheels)
The Bold Coast Scenic Bikeway: Building Bicycle Tourism and Local Biking Culture in DownEast Maine
Kim Anderson True (Bicycle Coalition of Maine) and Crystal Hitchings (Washington County Council of Governments)
Imagine People Here: Demonstration Projects as Planning/Advocacy Tools
Jim Tassé, Bicycle Coalition of Maine (BCM)
If your presentation is not posted and you would like it to be added, please send a PDF version to Marissa O'Neill.
Thursday night panelists (front row, from left) Angela Johnson, Tiffany Cogell, Nicole Ferraro, Tamika Francis, Vivian Ortiz, and Becca Wolfson with (back row) ECGA Trustee Atiba Mbiwan, Executive Director Dennis Markatos-Soriano, Trustee Dave Read, and Deputy Director Niles Barnes.
Stephanie Pollack, Secretary of Transportation and CEO of MassDOT
A panel of six women, leaders from a range of nonprofits and advocacy organizations, opened our 2018 New England Summit with their talk, "Innovation and Collaboration: The Road Towards Bike Equity in Boston."
Longtime Greenway Bill Desantis of VHB, a sponsor of the Summit
Leaders talk strategy at the Expo.
Niles Barnes, Summit event coordinator and deputy director of East Coast Greenway Alliance
Closing panel wraps up an exciting Summit: Vivian Ortiz, Herb Nolan and Dennis Markatos-Soriano
2018: Dennis gives the keynote welcome at our New England Bike-Walk Summit in Boston.
Tony Cherolis of Connecticut biked to the Summit as part of his 3,000-mile East Coast Greenway thru-bike from Calais, ME to Key West, FL.
Bike tour of Neponset River Greenway led by Jessica Mink, Vivian Ortiz, and Lee Toma, Neponset River Greenway Council members.
Meet the artist behind the New England Summit's featured art. Doug Dale raced bikes for five decades until a bad fall ended his amateur pastime. So he turned to art, creating whimsical mixed-media collages that mostly celebrate cycling — including "Beantown Bicyclist," for our upcoming New England Bike-Walk Summit.
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