Join Chuck Marohn and Ashwat Narayanan, Executive Director of Our Streets Minneapolis, on February 4 at 12:00pm CT as they discuss where best to channel your bike-lane efforts.

Bike infrastructure is one of the most high-return investments your community can make. Unfortunately, the fight for more bike lanes is often a contentious one, so it’s important to pick your battles carefully.

Which streets will have the greatest return on investment if a bike lane is added? Which areas would make a good starting place from which further success can be built?

This presentation will walk you through how to look at the streets in your community and decide which is worth fighting a bike lane battle for. We’ll feature people-oriented transportation expert and advocate, Ashwat Narayanan.

Charles Marohn - known as "Chuck" to friends and colleagues - is the Founder and President of Strong Towns and the author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity. He is a Professional Engineer (PE) licensed in the State of Minnesota and a land use planner with two decades of experience. He holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning, both from the University of Minnesota.

Marohn is also the lead author of Thoughts on Building Strong Towns — Volume 1, Volume 2  and Volume 3 — as well as the author of A World Class Transportation System. He hosts the Strong Towns Podcast and is a primary writer for Strong Towns’ web content. He has presented Strong Towns concepts in hundreds of cities and towns across North America. He is featured in the documentary film Owned: A Tale of Two Americans, and was named one of the 10 Most Influential Urbanists of all time by Planetizen.

Ashwat Narayanan Executive Director of Our Streets Minneapolis. Ashwat has nine years of experience advocating for cleaner, more inclusive and resilient transportation systems in the Midwest. Before Our Streets Minneapolis, Ash was Director of Transportation Policy at 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, a statewide nonprofit dedicated to building healthy communities through better land use. He developed campaigns that shifted state funding away from auto-centric infrastructure and into walking, biking, and public transit through legislative, legal, and community organizing means. He authored and co-authored numerous reports including The Road to Clean Transportation: A Bold, Broad Strategy to Cut Carbon Emissions and Arrive Together: Transportation Access and Equity in Wisconsin.

Most recently, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers appointed Ash to the State's Transportation Task Force, advising the state on future transportation investment. He served on the City of Madison's Transportation Commission and the City's Transportation Policy and Planning Board. He also chaired the Dane County Climate Council's Transportation and Land Use Working Group. He has a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from SRM University, India, and a Master's degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Ash currently serves on the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) Sustainable Transportation Advisory Council.