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Any and all interested in making Missoula and the five valley region a great place to walk and bike should plan to join BWAM for a great afternoon and evening filled with informative and inspiring information!

Friday will start with a free workshop on cutting edge bicycle facility design followed by the Annual Members Meeting complete with inspiring presentations, end-of-year review and board elections.

Friday will start with a free workshop on cutting edge bicycle facility design followed by the Annual Members Meeting complete with inspiring presentations, end-of-year review and board elections.

Both the Annual Meeting and workshop will feature Joe Gilpin of Alta Planning and Design. Alta was the lead agency for the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) Urban Bikeway Design Guide and Joe is one of Alta’s leading experts in bicycle facility design and has worked both as a project designer and as a planner analyzing network connectivity and corridor planning. He also has a past career in bicycle advocacy in California.

Workshop:  The NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide – a Tour of Cutting Edge Design
Where: City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine Street
When: 2:00-4:30 pm
This workshop is free and is open to all BWAM members, city county officials, staff and all relevant organizations,  agencies, and citizens interested in making the Missoula region the best place to live! Invite your friends and associates by sending them a link to this page!

RSVP for the workshop on-line!

74 are attending the Workshop!

This presentation will introduce atendees to the ins and outs of the recently released NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, a design tool for state-of-the-art practice bikeways by and for cities throughout the United States. Participants will learn how the need for the NACTO Guide was identified, get a tour of its contents, and review further needs in design guidance for bicycle and pedestrian professionals. This overview will include a preview of enhancements and additions for the 2012 version of the Guide.

BWAM Annual Members Meeting: What does Bike Culture Look Like?
Where: Downtown Dance Collective, 121 West Main Street
When:

• 5:00 pm appetizers & beverages;
• 6:00 pm Presentation;
• 7:00 pm Board Business

The Annual Meeting is open to all BWAM members and non-members! Invite your friends and associates by sending them a link to this page!

RSVP for the Annual Meeting on-line!

59 are attending the BWAM Meeting!

This presentation will focus on what bike culture looks like and what makes a community bicycle friendly. Joe looks at top-notch bicycle friendly communities and shows what can work for cities big and small.

Late on Friday, November 4, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) published its proposal for the next federal transportation bill, called MAP-21 (Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century). The 600-page bill will be marked-up in committee on Wednesday, November 9. The proposed legislation makes significant changes to the core, dedicated funding programs for bicycling and walking activities.

• The current dedicated funding programs for bicycling and walking (Transportation Enhancements, Safe Routes to School and the Recreational Trails program) are combined into one program, with significantly less funding.
• An expanded list of eligible activities are added to this smaller funding pot, including such big-ticket items as NEPA compliance and land acquisition for wetland mitigation.
• The proposed bill effectively allows states to completely opt out of the program and would allow all this money to be redirected to highway construction.

Originally, the bill also lumped highway and street construction projects, including high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes, as part of the expanded eligible activities. On Tuesday, Senator Boxer received bipartisan support for an amendment that will remove all but one of the road uses (NEPA & wetlands).   While this is a positive step, there is still a lot of work to do. The America Bikes Coalition hopes to continue to make changes by working with Boxer and EPW staff to restore dedicated funding in the bill.

Please read America Bike Response to the MAP 21 bill. Click Here to Continue Reading

August 19, Friday, 7:30 pm, Caras Park – New Belgium Brewery Clips of Faith Beer and Film Tour benefiting Bike/Walk Alliance for Missoula. Please join us for a fun evening watching “handmade films” while sampling some of New Belgium’s “handmade beer” that you may not have tasted before. All proceeds go to support BWAM.

Get your tickets for a chance to win this New Belgium Fat Tire Ale Cruiser Bike. All proceeds benefit BWAM. Tickets are available now until Friday afternoon at the MSO Hub, 140 N. Higgins Ave. Raffle tickets are $5 each or 3 for $10 and you must be present to win.

Check the New Belgium Clips of Faith web site. See selected films from 2010 at the New Belgium 2010 Films site.

We need volunteers! Please email Ginny at sullygin@msn.com if you can take a shift.

Here are the positions/shifts with number of people we need in parenthesis:

Friday Aug, 19
Set Up: 10 am – 1 pm (2); 1 -3 pm (2); 3-5 pm (2);

Event Jobs 6:30-9:30:
Beer Pitcher Fillers (10)
Info Table/ID wristbands (3)
TIPs Trained Special Beer Tent (3) (volunteers have to do an online training, cost is $35 but you are reimbursed the night of the event)

Clean Up: 9:30 – 11 pm (5)

Leave the Winter slush at the door….

• What: BWAM Annual Members’ Meeting & Dinner
• When: Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011 @ 7:00pm
• Where: Christ the King Church, 1400 Gerald Ave. (corner Keith & Gerald)
• RSVP:

BWAM invites you to reconnect with old friends and to make new ones at our annual meeting. Enjoy a delicious chili, salad, and cornbread dinner from “Catered Away” and slake your thirst with beer or wine while we revisit last year’s successes look ahead to special events, important projects, lofty goals of 2011! Learn about new trail developments with an update by Jean Belangie-Nye, BWAM’s Missoula Lolo Trail Alliance committee chair, and a presentation by Dave Shaw, Missoula Parks and Recreation, regarding the latest trail developments on Missoula’s Open Space and Conservation Lands. Bring family and friends; everyone is welcome.

Not sure if you want to be part of an organization that wants you as a member?? Consider this: Bike/Walk Alliance for Missoula, a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization, is a member driven advocacy group that influences bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure in the Five Valley region from the proposed Lolo-Missoula Trail to the bike lanes striping Higgins Ave North. We are helping shape the Active Transportation Plan of Missoula and have a hand in much of the bike lanes downtown. If you have walked or biked around town you have probably benefited from our work. BWAM works in solidarity with other bicycling organizations in Missoula and waxes a festive attitude for special events like PEDal Fest Missoula, New Belguim Brewing Clips of Faith Film and Beer Tour, Sunday Streets, and Bike Walk Bus Week. Now, be a part of the effective organization that helps make biking and walking a compelling choice!!

On Saturday, February 12, 2011, the festivities continue with BWAM’s Annual Meeting at 7:00pm in the lower center of Christ the King Church–1400 Gerald Ave. (Corner of Keith and Gerald). Dinner and brews are free for members and $5.00/person for non-members. Renew your membership or become a member, click here link to join now, or join/renew at the meeting and raise a glass and your voice to shape our transportation choices in the Five Valley region!

Please let us know if you will be attending the meeting and how many will be eating by clicking here (RSVP disabled)

Winter weather is approaching. Are you and your bicycle ready to enjoy commuting through the winter weather? There are many good resources to aid in successful winter riding. See a previous article by BWAM member Kevin Hyde.