National Safe Routes to School Conference

Mobile Workshops

Mobile workshops have limited capacity and most require pre-registration. Register here.

Materials needed: Unless otherwise noted, mobile workshop participants are required to provide their own helmet and bicycle. Bicycles are available for rental at low cost through the online conference registration.

Wednesday, August 19th
2:00PM to 5:30PM
The BTA Bike Safety Curriculum Walk + Bike Ambassadors, Bicycle Transportation Alliance For 10 years, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has conducted Bicycle Safety Education (BSE) in Oregon schools. In this presentation, the BTA will share its BSE curriculum, its bicycle fleet management system, and feedback from past BSE students. The session will conclude with a selection of bike safety drills and a "community ride." Registrants are required to have their own bicycle (can be rented from us.)
8:30PM onwards
Keeping Portland Geared: an Evening Ride and Talk with Roger Geller Roger Geller, City of Portland Ride to a local pub(s) to have an informal discussion about Portland's bicycle infrastructure, policy, and anything else you'd care to discuss with City of Portland's Bicycle Coordinator. This is a mobile session with limited enrollment.

Thursday, August 20th
6:30AM to 7:30AM
Morning Yoga Tasha Danner Start your morning with a little cyclist-friendly yoga next to the Willamette River. Afterwars, scamper off refreshed to join the breakfast to listen to the plenary speakers. No bicycle required.
10:00AM to 11:30AM
Walking/Biking Audit Susan Peithman, Alta Planning + Design Hannah Kappell, Alta Planning + Design The Walking/Biking Audit Mobile Workshop will be a hands-on practicum to discuss data collection and identification of infrastructure opportunities and constraints to walking or biking to school. Walking/Biking audits can be used to create parent walking/biking maps, which show the best routes to school and potentially hazardous areas for students to avoid. Audits can also be used to identify infrastructure improvements that present key gaps in the system or hazards to students walking or biking to school. This workshop will provide participants with the materials and experience to conduct their own walking/biking audits. No bicycle required.
Trimet: Transit & Portland SRTS Colin Maher, TriMet Learn about how Portland's regional transit has sought to make the connections between transit and bicycling easier and their subsidized bus pass pilot program for high school students. No bicycle required.
2:00PM to 5:30PM
Comphrehensive Elementary Traffic Education: In-School, On-bike and On-the-Street Roger DiBrito, Bike Safety Education Veteran Sharon DiBrito, Bike Safety Education Veteran Gregg Lavender, Portland YMCA This Kindergarten through Fifth grade Traffic Education program (50 lessons) provides children an opportunity to become predictable, competent and confident in traffic. This program accentuates the positive. Instead of dwelling on rules, it focuses on decision making and skill attainment. It supports what children like to do best; move about, go places, and see new things. Children seek to be independent, and view walking or bicycling as a realistic means of transportation. To do this well they need education and training. As a result of this training, children have the opportunity to begin making healthy lifestyle choices related to transportation.
From Platinum to World-Class: a Ride with Roger Geller Roger Geller, City of Portland Learn about facilities that make Portland so friendly to bicycling, and about some of the practical and policy issues surrounding their design and installation. Roger is Portland's Bike Coordinator in the City's Bureau of Transportation. This is a mobile workshop with limited enrollment.
Dead Freeways Shawn Granton, Urban Adventure League What if...Portland built all the freeways it planned? This ride will follow the routes of several highways that never made it off the drawing board, such as the fabled Mt. Hood Freeway, some that did but were later removed, like Harbor Drive, and also as a reference some freeways that currently exist. Learn about how removing freeways isn't impossible and can improve the equity, quality of life, and health of a region. Approx 13 miles of riding through moderate traffic- bicycle and helmet required. This is a mobile workshop with limited enrollment.
8/20 7:00PM onwards
Safe Routes to Donuts: Unique Portland Voodoo Donuts Stumptown Coffee Timo Forsberg Come explore Portland's most unique gastrointestinal delight, Voodoo Donuts. Known worldwide for their creative donuts, Voodoo donuts features donuts shaped in unique ways, flavored with bacon, cereals and more. (Including vegan varieties!) If you like, you can even have a donut wedding at the shop. We'll ride from the closet-sized original voodoo donut location to the larger Voodoo Too, with a stop for Portland's Stumptown Coffee on the way, and then continue to the Street Party for the conference afterward. Don't go home ashamed- make sure you can say you ate a Captain Crunch donut!

Friday, August 21st
7:00AM to 9:00AM
Breakfast on the Bridges Shift The last Friday of every month, Shift volunteers serve breakfast to bicyclists on the Broadway and Hawthorne bridges. This time, Shift throws a special edition for the Safe Routes to School National Conference. Many bike commuters have come to look forward to hot coffee and delicious pastries on their way to work once a month - and you can't beat the view! Mingle with Portland's non-stop stream of bicycle commuters on the Hawthorne Bridge and be late to breakfast at the Hilton! Registration not required, but ride leaves from Hilton at 7:OOAM sharp.
10:00AM to 11:30AM
Bike Tour: What Makes a Great Walking and Biking City City of Portland Bicycle Transportation Alliance Portland's bicycle experts lead a leisurely bike tour of some of Portland bike and pedestrian facilities, SR2S engineering projects, and bike boulevards that showcase improvements the City has made to encourage active transportation. Check out Portland's innovations and take home ideas for what might work in your community.
Bike Club: Experiental Education Curriculum Kim Whitney, Community Cycling Center Gabriel Graff, City of Portland The Community Cycling Center of Portland, with its mission to provide wider access to bicycling and its benefits, uses hands-on bike safety and maintenance teaching techniques to give diverse student groups opportunities to build confidence around bicycling. In this workshop, participants will witness these techniques first hand, learn about the program’s goals and successes, and take part in a discussion on how programs like Bike Club can contribute community-wide to kids’ bike safety and enjoyment.