DC District Bike Summit, 12/7/2025

The first annual.  

FWIW, I suggested something like this in 2010.  Montgomery County's Civic Federation, with the support of people in the planning department, did it if not in 2010, 2011 and 2012.  But I don't think it continued.

The MoCo meeting got some media coverage, at least with WTOP-radio, and by being co sponsored by the Civic Federation, it engaged older people in an area of interest often seen as dominated by younger demographics.

It's hardly an innovative suggestion.  Most state bike promotion groups have annual meetings.  

Eg it's been a long time, but I'd attended a couple of the meetings in Maryland, which are held in Annapolis, to facilitate interaction with state legislators and executive branch appointees.

Five years or so before 2010, I suggested an annual regionally-focused advocacy meeting on transit, moving from DC to Maryland and Virginia in succeeding years.

FWIW/2, DC has a bike promotion organization, Washington Area Bicyclist Association, while Chicago has a sustainable mobility organization--biking, walking, and transit--called the Active Transportation Alliance.

ATA grew out of the Chicago Bicycle Coalition.  NYC's Transportation Alternatives also addresses biking, walking, and transit.  

I think it makes more sense to have one organization addressing the three interconnected pro-environment modes.

I'm not sure about biking, but Montgomery County's Action Committee on Transit does address pedestrian issues too.

And rotating meetings across the jurisdictions.