Who's Who in Local Bicycle Advocacy

This is rather a grab-bag of names of people that have something-- anything-- to do with local bicycle advocacy. That means-- for example-- officers and volunteers of the various advocacy groups, key government staff in relevant departments, government officials, and... others. At this stage, it's very much a work in progress, whereas later it will be only somewhat a work in progress. Additions and corrections welcome.

Update, July 2000:
This page is hopelessly out of date. Use at your own risk. Or better yet, send us corrections at bcp@danenet.org.

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Connie Barnes: Connie was a remarkable woman, according to anyone who knew her. We present a Capital Times article She was lost to cancer in April 1999, after showing the world the meaing of 'determination'.
Mike Barrett: Mike Barrett is the Development Coordinator Bicycle Transportation Alliance, whatever that is, and a board member of Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin. Michael works part-time at Wisconsin's Environmental Decade and is heavily involved in local land-use and transportation planning issues. He has an M.S. in urban and historical geography from UW-Madison. Michael has extensive international cycling experience. He rode with Italian amateur cycling clubs in Italy and toured throughout Eastern and Western Europe while stationed with the U.S. army in Vicenza from 1986-90. He was also involved in the Italian bicycle advocacy group, Pedala Verde.
Phone: 245-1059.
Email: mikeb@urbanthoreau.com (warning: MIke's email tends to change frequently).
Dieter Bingemann: Dieter Bingemann is the official unofficial member of the steering committee of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance of Dane County. Many of his contributions are in the area of document layout and graphic design.
Email: dbingem@fozzie.chem.wisc.edu.
Darin Burleigh: Darin is the latest BCP web master. He has ridden in the suburbs of Chicago-land, which has informed his feelings about urban sprawl.
Email: burleigh@chorus.net
Steve Brown: Steve Brown was Campus Coordinator for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. He is no longer in Madison.

Renee Callaway: Renee Callaway's introduction to bicycling came through mountain biking. She is the founder of the Mad Trail FORCs, Madison and Milwaukee's Female Off-Road Cyclists, and she races on the Mad Trail FORCs/Budget Bicycle Center team.
Mare Chapman: Mare is the sparkplug that fires the cylinders of the little engine that is the Women on Wheels. 241-8239.
Steve Clark: Steve Clark, formerly a board member of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin, is an independent bicycle planning consultant and currently works for the Ice Age Park and Trail Foundation as a trail planner. He is the former bicycle and pedestrian coordinator for the city of Boulder, Colorado and past president of the League of American Wheelmen, LAW. He also was a founder of the Minnesota Coalition of Bicyclists and the Eco-Tourism Council. In his spare time he enjoys a farm life among goats, chickens, pigs and a horse; and sometimes he even gets to bicycle with his spouse and four children.
John Coleman: John is best known among the bikies crowd for his tireless effort to get the Missing Link bike path built.
colemanj@calshp.cals.wisc.edu
Jillian Corbett: Jillian started the Red Bikes Project, (in the Spring of 1996?), and is also active in Women on Wheels. Her latest project is Scram! Couriers, Madison's only bike messenger service.
256-6340.

John Dore: John Dore was the director of Wheels for Winners.
Phone: 273-4787, 255-8507.

Scott Ellington: AKA "the other Scott". World renowned for his annual bike tours..
sdelling@facstaff.wisc.edu

Peter Flucke: Peter Flucke worked for six years as a Police Bicycle Patrol Officer in Minnesota, so he understands how bicyclists and law enforcement officials think and how we must work together to create a safer, more enjoyable bicycling environment. Professionally, he is a bicycling consultant for We Bike. He has been a recreational rider for over 15 years. He is the political advocacy chair of the Bay Shore Bicycle Club, a member of the Bicycle Helmet Safety Coalition, Inc. of Brown County; and serves on the Technical Advisory Board of Inmotion. He is a certified Police Cyclist and an Effective Cycling Instructor-in-Training. He is also on the BFW board.

Lisa Goodman: Lisa Goodman was the Education Coordinator for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance until she foolishly chose to move to Vermont.
Jim Guthrie: Jim Guthrie is the president of the Bicycle Federation of Southeast Wisconsin and serves on the BFW board. He currently teaches construction electrician apprentices at MATC. Jim is an effective cycling instructor, and a member of LAB and the Spring City Spinners. He is a founding Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin member. His interest in advocacy stems from two close calls with the same truck as a child.
Email: guthriej@milwaukee.tec.wi.us.

Bill Hauda: Owner and operator of the GReat Annual Bicycle Adventure Along the Wisconsin River (GRABAAWR).
Dan Herber: Dan Herber is a board member of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin and a City Council Member for the City of LaCrosse, where he serves on the Public Works, Mass Transit Utility and Parking Utility boards, and is a member of the LaCrosse Area Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. He is also the executive director of the Preservation Alliance of La Crosse, a non-profit historic preservation organization. He has been a year-round commuter/utilitarian cyclist for five years.
James Henkel: Jim is organizer of the Wednesday Night Ride series, a Dane County institution. He also has his own cue sheets on the web.
info@wnbr.org
Jeanne Hoffman: Jeanne Hoffman is the former executive director of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin. Jeanne is an avid bike racer and bike advocate from Minnesota, via Stevens Point. On the advocacy front, Jeanne has worked as a board member with the Midwest Renewable Energy Association to incorporate bicycling as a component of their annual Renewable Energy Fair-- the Ragin' Rooster Road Race and Tour is her baby. Her professional experience includes managing a credit union office in Stevens Point and conference organizing for UW-Stevens Point's Solid Waste Management Program. She is now the assistant to the Mayor for land use and transportation issues.
Tom Huber: Tom-- a genuinely nice human being committed to bicycling as a feasible transportation option-- is also Wisconsin's Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator. Here's how to reach him:
Email: Tom Huber
thuber@mail.state.wi.us
Phone: 608-267-7757
Division of Planning
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
4802 Sheboygan Avenue
P.O. Box 7913
Madison, Wisconsin 53707-7913

Jesse Kaysen: Jesse "the K" was one of the better voices on the PBMVC. She is now on the Transit committee.
Chris Kegel: Chris Kegel is the owner of the Milwaukee area Wheel and Sprocket bicycle shops and is the president of the Wisconsin Off-Road Bicycle Association.
Kit Keller: Kit Keller is a consultant for the Bicycle Federation of America, located in Washington, DC, and serves on the board of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin. Her bicycle advocacy activities include assisting Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission staff in developing the region's first Bicycle and Pedestrian System Plan, reviewing bicycle project grant applications for the Wisconsin DOT, and co-founding the Bicycle Federation of Southeastern Wisconsin. She moved to Wisconsin in June 1993, and nine months later was elected to the Cedarburg Common Council. Kit chairs the Cedarburg Chamber of Commerce's Transportation Committee.
Joseph King: Joe, the former Program Coordinator of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, was a member of the State's Bicycle Advisory Council, which created the Wisconsin Bicycle Transporation Plan, as well the advisory committe for the SouthWest Path. He was also the web master of this very BCP. Although now hooked on racing, he also keeps abreast of the advocacy scene.
Email: jking@mailbag.com.

Paul Lata: Paul Lata is a member of the board of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin and the ride director of the Marinette County touring group Spokes and Folks' annual Menominee River Century, "Wisconsin's Largest Metric Century." He also serves on the Recreational and Economic Development subcommittee of the Governor's Bicycle Coordinating Council.
Email: paull@mrnet.com.
Matt Logan: Matt appeared on the advocacy scene around 2001, establishing the Madison Critical Mass Page.

Al Matano: Al is a bike advocate who has infiltrated into the Establishment, when he was elected to the Dane County Board. He is also a long-time activist with the Sierra Club.
Email: MatanA@mailbag.com
Steve Meiers: Steve organizes the Gear Up Madison every year, which raises money for bike helmets. And in his day jab in Madison's Traffic Engineering department, he also promotes bike safety.
Email: smeiers@ci.madison.wi.us

JoAnn Pruitt Thunder: JoAnn Pruitt Thunder is the Pedestrian/Bicycle Safety Program Manager in the WisDOT Office of Transportation Safety. Their current projects include a Road Hazard Identification program and a curriculum on pedestrian and bicycle safety for law enforcement agencies.
Phone: 267-3154.
Heather Putnam: Heather Putnam is a year-round bicycle commuter and an Effective Cyclist. She also enjoys touring, especially with her husband on their tandem. Heather is a former member of the BFW board.
Email: bputnam@powercom.net

Pascal: Creator of many BCP icons, and rumored to be a critical mass insider.

Harry Read: Harry has contributed a wonderful set of rides that combine biking with his interest in our local environment.; hwread@facstaff.wisc.edu
Mike Rewey: aka "the highway man"; District 1 planner for WISDOT. An active cyclist, who plans big roads. Go figure!
Paula Romeo: Paula Romeo became interested in bicycling when she moved to the Madison area in 1981. She is the secretary for the Friends of the Glacial Drumlin Trail, and belongs to several local and national advocacy organizations. She has extensive experience with special events, having led moonlight rides for the Bombay Bicycle Club of Madison, headed up race registration for the Capitol City Classic, and worked as an administrative assistant for GRABAAWR. She is both a commuter and an avid bicycle tourist. Her spending money comes from working at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Formerly on the BFW board.
Scott Rose: Scott Rose was the original creator of this Bicycling Community Page, a world wide web page serving the Dane County, Wisconsin area, and was the Treasurer/Membership Coordinator of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. He also set up bikies, the email listserv that is the main voice of local advocacy. Having accomplished many Great Things, he has skipped the country.
WWW: http://www.cs.washington.edu/~rose/
Arthur Ross: Arthur "Art" Ross has been the Pedestrian-Bicycle Safety Coordinator for the City of Madison since 1987. Prior to moving to Madison, he worked with the bicycle program in Boulder, Colorado. He is an experienced year-round bicycle commuter. Arthur is a certified Effective Cycling Instructor, and serves on the board of directors of the League of American Bicyclists, Madison's Wheels for Winners program, and the steering committee of the national Youth Bicycle Education Network. Arthur enjoys bicycling and other silent sports with his wife and sons. He is former president of the BFW board.
Art was featured in an article in the Cap Times.
Email: aross@ci.madison.wi.us.
Phone: 266-6225

Gary Sanderson: Gary Sanderson is on the board of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin and is vice president of Milwaukee's Cream City Cycle Club. He is also active in Couples on Wheels, the Wisconsin Tandem Society.
Richard Schwinn: Richard Schwinn is a board member of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin and has worked in the bicycle manufacturing business all his life, first for the Schwinn Bicycle, and currently for Waterford Precision Cycles, makers of Elite Bicycles. He served as alternate director of the Bicycle Institute of America from 1987 to 1992, and from 1990 to 1994, he served on the board of the Rails to Trails Conservancy. He has also served as a member of the Chicago Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Council.
Mark Shahan: Formerly on the steering committee of the BTA Mark is now working within the system to make the world a better place. He is now chair of the City's Ped/Bike/Motor Vehicle Commission.
Phone: 274-9367.
Email: mnshahan@chorus.net.
Andy Swartz: Andy Swartz is the vice president (and former president) of WORBA, the Wisconsin Off-Road Bicycling Association.
Phone: 222-5608.
Email: swarta@dnr.wi.us.

Pete Taglia: He is on the UW-Madison Bike/Pedestrian/Transit Subcommittee, the Lakeshore Path Advisory Committee, and member of BFW, steering committee of BTA, and the local Sierra Club chapter. As a hydrogeology grad student, he loves to point out the connection between water resource quality and transportation.
EMail: insitu@terracom.net

Robbie Webber: aka the "world-wide-webber". Robbie works for the BFW, and formerly managed Madison's successful Bike To Work Week program. She is also an Effective Cycling instructor.
Email: robbie@bfw.org
Richard Wilson: Richard Wilson has been a Green Bay area resident for about twenty years and has been active in bicycle advocacy for about twelve years. He has been the president of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin for 3 years. He is a part-time and a full-time volunteer. He serves on the vestry (governing board) and as treasurer of his church. Other favorite activities include canoeing and kayaking, traveling, camping, gardening, and music. His wife is a librarian, and he has two teenaged children.
Tim Wong: Tim Wong chaired the Bicycle/Pedestrian Committee of the City of Madison Transportation Commission, until it was re-organized out of existence. He is currently the treasurer of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance.
Phone: 249-WONG.
Email: timwong@mailbag.com.
Mike Wyatt: Mike is a member of NTA, author of several white papers, and an all-around activist.

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