May 2017 activity report

ODOT transit employees learning to use the COTA bus racks during a Professional Development Ride with us this month.

ODOT transit employees learning to use the COTA bus racks during a Professional Development Ride with us this month.

Welcome to the monthly feature in which we round up all our events, earned media, program delivery, meetings and speaking engagements for the month. Representation and outreach like this is what you fund with your membership dollars and major gifts, folks! Behold, May:

All month

Delivered Columbus Bike Maps to bike shops throughout Central Ohio

May 1

Chaired the MORPC Community Advisory Committee meeting

May 2–3

Trained Bike Cleveland to deliver Professional Development rides

May 4

Columbus Alive: Things We Love: Picks from Emily Monnig

Vet the Bike the Cbus route

May 5 

Vet the June Year of Yay! route

May 6

Tabled at Pinchflat Bike Poster Blowout

May 9

Delivered a Professional Development Ride in Cleveland and another in Euclid

May 10

Meeting at the Ohio Department of Health regarding our upcoming Ride Buddy / How We Roll program for state employees

May 12

Met with a national representative from Dero

May 11

Tabled at the Worthington Community Bike Rodeo

Columbus Green Team meeting

May 13

Year of Yay!, 'April Showers Bring May Flowers' theme

May 15

Delivered a Professional Development Ride with ODOT transit professionals in Columbus

Yay Bikes! board meeting

May 16

nbc4i.com: "Groups aim to make biking to work safer and more convenient"

ODOT Messenger: "Bike to Work Week"

Led a bike ride with members of the press

Ride the Elevator

May 17

Columbus Ride of Silence

Participated in 2 Columbus Foundation Big Table conversations

May 19

The Loop: "5.19.17"

Led a ride to Columbus' Bike to Work Day celebration

May 21

Delivered a How We Roll ride for Yay Bikes! members

May 22

Delivered 2 Professional Development Rides in Defiance

May 23

Attended a planning meeting for the Statewide Active Transportation Institute

May 24

Attended a Central Ohio Greenways board meeting

May 30

Delivered a Professional Development Ride in Dublin

May 31

Delivered 2 Professional Development Rides in Meigs County (Pomeroy and Middleport