CyclingSavvy at Conferences and Expos, Jan-Apr 2024
In 2024 the American Bicycling Education Association will be reaching out at several national and regional conferences and expos. Most of these attract bicyclists or bicycle dealers. We’ll be promoting the new PowerSavvy materials and making our presence known. And — you have an opportunity to offer comments on an important national policy document. Read on for details.
Coming soon!
First, a West-Coast event — soon, January 10-11 (Wednesday-Thursday), ABEA/CyclingSavvy will share a booth with CABO at the West Coast CABDA Expo, at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, California. CABDA (the Chicago Area Bicycle Dealers’ Association) has gone national with its Expos. Retailers attend them to examine and order products from suppliers. Check out our booth and be sure to attend Clint Sandusky’s presentations on ebikes and our PowerSavvy program.
The NCUTCD (National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices) winter meeting will be January 10-12. The NCUTCD advises the Federal Highway Administration on updates to the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). This resource, available online, standardizes traffic signals, signs and markings and their use in the USA. The MUTCD reflects some new developments in bicycling infrastructure. Four CyclingSavvy instructors are members of the NCUTCD Bicycle Technical Committee (NCUTCD BTC).
A new edition of the MUTCD is under review. Most of the NCUTCD winter meeting will be about it. The deadline for public comments is January 18. You may submit comments directly — instructions are here — or you may comment on this post, but if you do it that way, get your comments in by noon on Wednesday so we can review them!
More expos and conferences
The East Coast CABDA Expo will be he March 6 and 7 (Wednesday-Thursday) at Meadowlands Convention Center in Secaucus, New Jersey, near New York City. Our plans are like those for the West Coast Expo, but are still at an early stage. Would you be interesting in helping to staff our booth, and with logistics? Please let me (John Allen) know.
We’ll be back at the Philadelphia Bicycle Expo! This year it will be March 16 and 17. This event mostly attracts bicyclists, with booths from specialty bike builders, manufacturers of comonents and accessories, and advocates. We’ll be giving seminars and sharing a booth with the Lehigh Valley Coalition for Appropriate Transportation. We are pretty well set up for staffing. Please drop by our booth.
The Massachusetts Transportation Innovation Conference will be March 30-April 1 in Worcester, 30 miles west of Boston. Lieutenant Jeff Watson of the Medway, Massachusetts Police, a police trainer and CyclingSavvy graduate, will give a presentation about ebikes in public-safety work and I’ll be giving one about PowerSavvy; we’ll have a booth. This conference is not to be missed if you want to be up to date on transportation issues in Massachusetts.
We’re here, online and in person…
And — be sure to check out our online course offerings, including the new PowerSavvy materials. We have at least one online class every month from February through December. Or sign up for an in-person course. You may qualify for our on-bike sessions with a Zoom session or online courses.