NEWS! The 14th Annual NJ Bike Walk Summit! March 29th. And NOTIFICATION: Your invitation to attend the first Target Zero Commission meeting, or submit comment,

The 2025 NJ Bike And Walk Summit will be an exciting event!

Saturday, March 29, 2025 at Princeton University.


Hope you’ll join us as we continue to learn and to advocate for equitable, safe mobility for all road users, especially the most vulnerable.

Register here:  https://njbwc.org/summit-2025/ 

Keynote speakers include:
Fran K. O’Connor, NJ Department of Transportation

Charles L. Marohn Jr., founder and president of Strong Towns, and named one of the 10 Most Influential Urbanists of all time.

Hope to see you there!

 

Notification: Your invitation
The public is invited to the first meeting of NJ’s first-in-the-nation Target Zero Commission is tomorrow morning at 10am
 
If you can’t make it in person, you can also leave a written comment by March 21st.
See details:
What: Target Zero Commission First Meeting
When: Thursday, March 6th, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Where: NJ Transit Headquarters, Two Gateway, 283-299 Market Street, Newark, NJ 07102
*Note* Meeting attendees are required to obtain a guest pass from the 2 Gateway Security Desk, go through police security screenings, and then sign in for the meeting with staff at the reception table outside the Board Room. Please allow extra time.
Agenda:
  • Introduction of Commission Members
  • Safe System Approach Presentation
  • Public Comment
  • Next Steps
A member of the Governor’s Office will also be in the audience on Thursday; if you wish to attend and/or send a comment, please help us by completing this form so that we may know to expect you.The purpose of the public comment period is for the Commission to receive valuable information from the public on agenda matters, not answer questions.
  • Speakers must register to speak outside the Board Room when they arrive for the meeting.
  • Each individual speaker will have three (3) minutes to provide comments.
  • If representing an organization, one speaker will have five (5) minutes to provide comments for the organization.
  • Each speaker should tell the Commission their name, and if applicable, the organization they represent, before providing their comments.
Please note that written comments are also encouraged and will be accepted by the Commission. The Commission will give equal consideration to written comments as it does to those comments provided at the meeting.
Written comments may be submitted to targetzerocommission@dot.nj.gov by or before March 21, 2025. To read more about the agenda and public comment procedures for this meeting, please visit https://www.nj.gov/transportation/about/index_vision_zero.sh
Thank you for your continued support.
Onward!

Polli Schildge, Editor

NJ Bike & Walk Coalition Summit Sessions Are Ready To View!

In case you were not able to attend the Summit this year, here’s your chance to see these great presentations. Every session offered opportunities to learn ways to make our cities safer, more livable, accessible, and more equitable for everyone.

Friends and supporters will want to check out the session Advocates In Action Part 2: Pandemic And Beyond, presented at the NJBWC Summit on June 5th, which includes two founding members of Asbury Park Complete Streets Coalition, Moderator Polli Schildge (http://apcopmpletestreets.org editor), and Pam Lamberton. In this session a panel of nine advocates shared ideas, initiatives, and frustrations.

The panelists gathered materials, graphics, videos, and valuable information for this engaging session of the 2021 Summit. We’re looking forward to continuing these conversations!

 

Check out all of the NJ Bike &Walk & Summit Sessions!

 

Advocates In Action Part 2: Pandemic And Beyond

Bike/ped advocates have long been champions of social equity, accessibility, health, and sustainability. Since the pandemic, people all over the world are finally recognizing what the advocates have known all along – to achieve these values, it is critical to reduce automotive dependency, offer safe and convenient alternatives to driving, and to think differently about how we use our valuable public space.

Using this momentum, we are reimagining our streets, neighborhoods, and business districts as places not just for cars, but for all people. In this session, hear experiences from advocates around NJ followed by the opportunity to ask questions of panelists about how they’ve succeeded – or are still working- to build better places for people.

 

  Polli Schildge, Moderator, Founding Member, Asbury Park Complete Streets Coalition
  Anthony Talerico Jr., Mayor of the Borough of Eatontown
John Sullivan, President, Bike & Walk Montclair
.  Kathleen Ebert, Founder, Point Pleasant Borough Complete Streets
Kenny Sorenson, Advocate, Neptune Complete Streets
Lisa Serieyssol, Chair, Princeton Pedestrian & Bicycle Advisory Committee
Nancy Blackwood, Chair, Red Bank Environmental Commission/Green Team
Pam Lamberton, Founding Member, Asbury Park Complete Streets Coalition
Shaun Ellis, Founding member of Ride Free, a transportation gap project by Free Bridge Mutual Aid
Todd Pagel, Former Councilman, City of Metuchen & President of Bike Walk Metuchen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video Advocacy In Action Panel: Initiative to Acceptance to Implementation (Clip 1)

APCSC Panel Advocacy In Action: Initiative to Acceptance to Implementation

(Clip 1)

NJBWC Summit March 7th, 2020

For those who would like to learn more about bike and walk advocacy~
Here is the first part of the APCSC NJBWC Panel: Advocacy In Action: Initiative to Acceptance to Implementation
A great panel comprised of advocates from 5 Jersey Shore towns. Stay tuned for more…

Polli 2020 NJBWC Panel script

NJBWC Polli Panel 2020 Advocacy In Action Summit Panelist Bios 2 pages