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#CABikeSummit: the View from Twitter

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On October 15-17, 300 bicycle advocates, government officials, and planners gathered for the 2019 California Bicycle Summit. Participants recorded their reactions to the workshops, plenaries, and tours on Twitter. These #CABikeSummit tweets are a good way to view a cross-section of the Summit.

Here are the top baker’s dozen of tweets and Twitter threads from the California Bicycle Summit.

#1: The most liked tweet was an appropriately angry comment by Bike East Bay’s Robert Prinz in response to the very first speaker our Board Chair Cynthia Rose introduced. Its thread included a shout out to a later speaker, Assembly Member Laura Friedman, who said, “Caltrans needs an awakening if they think that moving Amazon packages is somehow more important than moving children safely through our streets.”

 

#2: Here’s John Jones III ruminating on his experience at the Summit.

 

#3: It wouldn’t be a true California Bicycle Summit without an ear to the south, where we hear BiciActiva Radio telling us about bicycle advocacy in Colombia.

 

#4: “If you bike, you should run for office.”

 

#5: BikeLA, keeping it real.

 

#6: How bikes fit into the Green New Deal was a popular session.

 

#7: We LOVED the bike rides, especially the LA River Tour. Thanks LACBC and Alta for sharing your love of and knowledge about the river and what it can do for Angelenos.

 

#8: And the walking tour, too!

 

#9: Yes we do, Bryn. Yes, we do.

 

#10: Thinking big.

 

#11: Perhaps the most beautiful bikeways in the world.

 

#12: The last plenary was all love as Sahra Sulaiman of StreetsblogLA facilitated a conversation among South Los Angeles bike club leaders. We all agree, they are heroes.

 

#13: Art Ramirez invited the summit goers to his birthday party so our Executive Director took him up on the offer, joining them for a ride from South LA to downtown taking over the streets and protected bike lanes with gorgeous bikes and joyful faces.

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