We regularly host community conversations in our mobility hub to engage neighbors, mobility-curious, long standing advocates, and experts alike. Here we dig deeper into the challenges and opportunities of creating safer streets and embracing multimodal living.
Keep an eye on this space for more community conversations!
E-bikelash
Confusion between pedal-assist e-bikes and much faster e-motos, along with reckless behavior from a minority of riders, has fueled calls for restrictive legislation and even bans on this innovative technology that can benefit many riders with mobility issues. Here we discussed…
- The quirky e-bike laws of NYS from 2020
- Bills in the Legislature that would “fix” those problems along with other bills to restrict their use
- How to move forward
We hosted Carter Lavin, author of If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy, for our February Community Conversation. He gave some great advice on how advocates can stop playing defense and build a joyful, visible, people-powered movement to celebrate highly visible “wins” for the community.
You can watch the entire talk on our YouTube channel. We also highly recommend you check out his book.
Winter Advocacy and Street Films
After a rescreening of our 2017 Rochester Street Films: Winter Edition we broke into two groups. One to discuss advocacy around winter maintenance and the other to discuss the basics of Winter cycling.