View the Agenda: 2019 NATIONAL BIKE SUMMIT

Have you heard the one about the time a Republican mayor and the Democrat bicycle advocate walked into a bar? While some of us from more conservative parts of the country have sometimes cried tears in our beer about the challenges of selling the importance of bicycle infrastructure to our DOT's, decision makers and elected officials, success is possible - it just requires some additional creative strategy. In this session, you'll hear how a coalition in Nebraska came together achieve the seemingly impossible: convincing the state DOT, local MPO, two Natural Resource Districts, two towns and two counties to work together and pay for the infrastructure to add a sidepath to the side of a highway bridge that was being reconstructed. You'll also learn tips for how to best work with "red state" elected officals from Nebraska's favorite cycling mayor /MPO board chair.