TRANSFORMING TRANSPORTATION
Zeitgeist is embarking on a transforming transportation journey to connect, educate, and advocate around barriers that persist in our transportation networks. Our mission is to address historic inequities in our transportation infrastructure, structures, and cultures by working creatively with diverse regional coalitions in leveraging change, and by centering those most impacted in visioning the solutions. Our aim is a regional transportation network that’s fully responsive to the needs of all our community members, connecting people to all the resources they need to thrive.
2024 DOC & TALK SERIES
ABOUT THE TRANSPORTATION EQUITY DOC & TALK SERIES
Follow the history of transportation in this country, from buses and bikes to super highways and self-driving cars, as we examine the barriers that persist in our transportation networks. The Transportation Equity Doc & Talk Series includes monthly screenings of transportation documentaries followed by community conversations with speakers from the Twin Ports advancing transportation equity through their work.
The Transportation Equity We Bike series of free events, created in partnership with Continental Ski & Bike, aims to celebrate, welcome, and empower members of historically marginalized communities within cycling. Designed with low-income, BIPOC, youth, disabled, women, and gender-nonconforming people in mind, We Bike hopes to dismantle barriers to access and pave the way for a more diverse and vibrant cycling community across the Twin Ports region by providing essential bicycling education, maintenance resources, and enriching group rides.
Zeitgeist and Continental Ski & Bike share a commitment to fostering inclusivity and accessibility in cycling to support a healthier, happier, and more equitable society. Everyone should be able to bike safely and enjoyably! Join us as we pedal towards a future where we all can bike with comfort and confidence.
This September 24-25, the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota (BikeMN) is coming to Duluth to offer FREE cycling courses that will:
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Get coordinators ready to plan Adult Learn-to-Ride classes
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Get instructors ready to teach Adult Learn-to-Ride classes
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Get schools ready to teach Walk!Bike!Fun! bike and pedestrian safety classes for K-8
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Teach adults how to ride a bike
These courses are FREE and open to all, and will equip you with the knowledge and skills to teach bicycling courses to all ages and abilities. By participating, you’re helping bridge the equity gap in cycling!
Adult Learn-to-Ride
The Adult Learn-to-Ride class provides hands-on instruction for adults who are brand new to bicycling. Using an established best practice approach, participants progress from walking with a bike to striding and gliding, to pedaling on their own, to riding with a group. BikeMN will begin with training for instructors to learn how to lead Adult Learn-to-Ride classes, then facilitate the first of three sessions in the Adult Learn-to-Ride class for community participants (with the newly trained instructors facilitating the remaining two).
- Training for Coordinators | Wednesday, September 11th, 12-1pm
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Training for Trainers | Tuesday, September 24th, 5-7pm | At Gloria Dei Church (219 North 6th Ave E)
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Adult Learn-to-Ride Class | Wednesdays, September 25th, October 2nd, October 9th, 4-5:30pm | At Gloria Dei Church (219 North 6th Ave E)
Walk!Bike!Fun!
Schools in Minnesota are now required (since Fall 2023) to teach pedestrian and bicycle safety to students K-8 within the first three weeks of the school year. BikeMN’s Walk!Bike!Fun! curriculum fulfills that requirement with participants receiving their own copy of the curriculum, adaptations for students of all abilities, and 8 CEUs (for educators) with completion of parts one and two.
Part one is a 2-3 hour online, self-paced training that provides an overview of the curriculum, and contains learning about Safe Routes to School, equity and justice, and a deep dive into rules of the road. This training also includes videos, quizzes, discussion questions, and time for reflection.
Part two is a 5 hour in-person, on-bike training, to have teachers, educators, and caregivers teach and practice activities from the curriculum that students will experience.
- Walk!Bike!Fun! Part Two | Wednesday, September 25th, 10am-3pm | At the Woodland Community Center (3211 Allendale Ave)
HELP TRANSFORM TRANSPORTATION!
Learn about local transportation projects in the works along with community groups working on transportation efforts.
Help shape conversations to center historically-marginalized populations in our region’s transportation plans.
Become a champion of transportation equity in our region by getting involved in one or more grassroots efforts.