This session chronicles Austin’s progression from a city where bicycle infrastructure program was on the margins and modestly funded to one that has become a national leader in rapid all ages and abilities network development. Austin’s journey will be explained, including alignment with international best practices in bicycle planning and design, creating a powerful and compelling vision for network investment, building trusted programs and public processes, and how to deliver an infrastructure program at scale. Austin has now garnered the public trust to deliver over half a billion in bicycle network investment over a 10 year period investment, building trusted programs.

Learning Objectives:

• Outline how Austin went from a car centric city to one where bicycle infrastructure is front and center
• Demonstrate how to build a powerful vision for a large scale bicycle infrastructure investment
• Explain how to deliver at scale through trusted programs and public processes