Louisville Bike Summit II

The second Louisville Bike Summit is now history. Thank you to all the organizers, including the Bicycle Task Force, the tons of city workers who made this a reality. I think it managed to top its predecessor.

I don't have time to do a full write up, but to do a quick compare-contrast with Bike Summit I, I'd say that:

1) The city's planning process for bicycle improvements is now mature. Our engineering focus group looked at this process and the question was: "how can we improve the public participation process", to which the overall reply seemed to be "you can't beat this".

2) Enforcement is showing a *huge* improvement. Not hard since it was totally off-map as recently as two years ago. LMPD has a liason officer and is seeking to engage and work with the public on how it deals with bike enforcement.

3) I yearn for Public Transit Summit I.

If you have your own thoughts, you are welcome to post them in the comments.

 

Comments

Agree!

The Bike Summit was super. A lot of great conversations, ideas, and relationship-building.   A lot more people  in this community are a lot more knowledgeable about bicycling now, as compared with 4 years ago (at the time of the previous Summit). It's a good thing.