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APBP Past Board Members |
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Aida Berkovitz 2007-2003
461 2nd Street, #559
San Francisco, CA 94107
mobile & home phone: 415-572-7749
aida.b@comcast.net |
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My biggest accomplishment while on the Board: getting APBP the DPFA (Designing Pedestrian Facilities for Accessibility) course. I wanted to work with other ped/bike professionals and to bring their knowledge/experiences into my employing agency – Federal Highway Administration. |
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Andy Clarke 1999-1996
andy@bikeleague.org |
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Greatest accomplishment was simply getting the thing started with other early directors! And the reason we did it was to provide a place for bicycle and pedestrian professionals to develop a professional discipline that looked after ourselves...there were and are groups like ITE and APA that we want to improve and inform and influence - but APBP is for us! |
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Linda Crider 2004-2002
lbcrider@aol.com |
| My greatest accomplishment while serving on the board was my perspective from Florida and blos research efforts as well as bicycle safety education efforts. I also pushed forward the "bicycle friendly communities" initiative. I wanted to serve on the board to be part of an up and growing professional organization in my field. |
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Bill Feldman 2005-2000
The RBA Group
973-946-5637 |
| Greatest accomplishment: helping to keep things together at a critical time in the organization’s history, i.e. the transition when Andy Clark left as executive director, and the board had to keep the organization going and find a more permanent solution for continuing the operation of APBP. Why I wanted to serve on the board: to help continue and grow the organization as a force for the support of bicycle and pedestrian professionals. The organization has been an important resource to me since its inception. I felt privileged to serve with the other board members who worked so hard to insure the success of the organization. |
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Michael G. Jones, Principal 2006
Alta Planning + Design
1410 Third Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 482-8660
(415) 482-8603 fax
mgjones@altaplanning.com
http://www.altaplanning.com/ |
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My greatest accomplishment was while serving on the Board was helping to select a new Executive Director. I wanted to serve on the APBP Board because of professional interest. |
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Michael King, RA 2006-2003 Principal Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates
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| While on the Board we successfully held the PDS in Chicago and Davis CA, both of which were well attended. My professional MO is challenging conventions and getting people to think about the reasons behind the route to their decisions; I think we did that in both. We also launched DPFA which continues to be a great training tool. Then I served on the national Safe Routes to School Task Force, which was a treat. I am committed to APBP and thought the best way to serve was on the Board. I wanted to push the organization to more urban, design and international interests and align our work with peripheral interests like transit, parking, and schools. |
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Josh Lehman 2002-2001
Bicycle-Pedestrian Program Manager
Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works
10 Park Plaza, Room 4150
Boston, MA 02116
T: 617.973.7329
F: 617.973.8035
josh.lehman@eot.state.ma.us |
| My greatest accomplishment while serving on the board was organizing and delivering the APBP conference in Cambridge, MA. I wanted to serve on the board to return to the bicycling and walking profession, with which I have been involved professionally since 1977. |
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Tim Oliver 2001-1996
(Tel) 602-506-3994
timoliver@mail.maricopa.gov |
| In terms of accomplishments, my history with APBP goes back to being one of the founding members. In the beginning, Bill Wilkinson and his organization provided us a means of getting APBP started. They also provided a certain level of staff support. There came a time that the ad-hoc board members (we were not elected at that time) for APBP had to make a hard decision, which was to separate ourselves from Bill Wilkinson and take APBP onto bigger and better things. We did just that after getting the board members together in Chicago to chart out our initial strategic plan to take APBP to a stand alone professional organization. This was a major first step for the organization since there was no other professional organization just for bike and pedestrian professionals prior to this. It also forced APBP to grow up and become chartered. So if I had to point to the most important accomplishment, it was my role in this action, because it has enabled the organization to grow to where it is today under the leadership of many hard working board members and staff who have followed the lead of the 8 or 10 folks that met in Chicago many years ago. The other major accomplishment during my time on the board was the partnership APBP forged with the folks at UNC (i.e., The Bike/Ped. Clearing House) in securing the federal grant that provided APBP with its initial staffing (Andy Clark). While the credit for setting up the logistics of this partnership falls squarely to Andy Clark, the APBP Board supported this and gave me the authority to sign the contract with UNC which gave our fledgling organization its’ wings. I was APBP first President of the Board and served in this capacity for our first few years. I served on the board because I felt it was important to get APBP started so that bike and pedestrian professionals had an organization that represented them. Other organizations like ITE and APWA are good organizations, but their interest in what is good for bikes and pedestrians gets overshadowed, so I felt it was imperative to get APBP started and I felt serving on the board would help ensure that the organization got off the ground. |
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Dennis Scott 1998-1996
FDOT Safety Office
605 Suwannee St., MS 53
Tallahassee, Fl. 32399
Tel. (850)245-1527 |
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Helping in the formation of the organization in the early years was my greatest accomplishment while serving on the Board. I wanted to serve on the Board to help develop an organization that would move the profession forward. |
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Jennifer L. Toole, AICP, ASLA 2004-1999
Principal, Toole Design Group
jtoole@tooledesign.com |
| My greatest accomplishment as President of the Board of Directors was managing the transition when our first Executive Director resigned. Through a lot of hard work, we kept the organization going and came out of the experience on solid ground with a vision for the future. I am also proud of the APBP Bike Parking Guidelines, which was a project that I managed while I was on the Board. The APBP Board was full of the best and brightest minds of our profession - I knew that I would learn a lot and would enjoy working with the other Board members. I knew APBP had a bright future. I wanted to be a part of the early development of the organization. |
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