Intro to Bike/Ped Advocacy Calls

How to Become A Bike & Pedestrian Advocate in Pittsburgh

Join our Advocacy Manager Seth for a 30-minute “orientation” to learn how you can join the movement for safer walking, biking, and rolling in Pittsburgh.

This orientation is for you if:

• You want to be more involved in advocating for safer streets, and you’re figuring out where to start.
• You have an idea for better infrastructure, a new policy, a program, or an event, and you want help to make it happen.
• You’re looking for a way to contribute to your community, and you think improving active transportation sounds interesting.
• You walk, ride a bike, use a wheelchair, or take the bus and want to make that experience better for yourself and others. (By the way, it’s okay if you drive a car sometimes or often! We’re all in this together.)

You’ll learn about:

• BikePGH and our advocacy work
• The vibrant community of bike & pedestrian advocacy groups across Allegheny County and how you can join (or start) one near you.
• Workshops, events, and resources to help you gain advocacy skills and connect with our community of active transportation changemakers.

And you’ll get to identify at least one next step you can take to get more involved.

Then, if you’d like to stick around, join other advocates in our community at the top of the hour for our monthly Bike/Ped Advocacy Booster Call where new and experienced advocates gather to support one another. That’s a great place to bring any leftover questions after the intro and connect with people doing the work!

Sign up for an intro!

These 30-minute intro calls are offered monthly via Google Meet, and the schedule is announced at the beginning of each quarter in January, April, July, and October.

Here are this quarter’s dates with registration links:

October 16th at 5:00pm

October 24th at 11:30am

November 12th at 5:30pm

If none of those dates work or you want to get involved sooner, email advocacy@bikepgh.org to set up a one-on-one meeting!