Bicycle & Pedestrian Transportation:
Meggs has participated in numerous official committees, studies, and planning processes as a representative of bicycle advocacy groups; clients; organizations and the public since 1992.
Experience:
- EU Reports
- Stops as Yields for Cyclists (The Idaho Law): Research and policy work in support of
sensible and safer bicycle regulation.
See paper and policy letters, linked from
blog article.
- A multifaceted work sample assessing the potential to convert on-street parking to a sidewalk and bikeway is here: click to download (3 MB). (The project is on its way to implementation as a result of that study.)
- Meggs gives a talk on Bicycle Law, thrice presented at the Environmental Law Quarterly Speaker series at Boalt Hall School of Law.
- Meggs helped organize and contributed to a new graduate class on Pedestrian & Bicycle Planning at UC Berkeley (CP 298, Spring 2008), and teaches such classes at the University of Bologna. Meggs is a member of an an ad hoc group of such instructors.
- Meggs organized and taught a Beginner Bicyclist Survival Class for all ages at the Berkeley YMCA.
- Meggs was a dedicated participant involved with the creation of numerous bicycle and related plans including:
Projects & Organizations:
- Meggs co-founded the Bicycle-Friendly Berkeley Coalition in 1995 and was active on the Board of Directors to 2009.
- Meggs co-founded the Bike the Bridge! Coalition where he led numerous campaigns, including the successful campaign for a Bay Bridge bicycle path 1997-1998, an extended campaign for Richmond-San Rafael Bridge access 1996-2009, and more.
- Meggs spearheaded the creation of the highly successful Berkeley Bike Station, which he later managed for a year, greatly improving operations and expanding services. Meggs was a leader in the successful ten-year campaign to expand and daylight the Station so it could finally fulfill its mission to the public, and be a true Bicycle Support Center. Meggs also conducted original air quality research to better understand why workers complained of health problems while working in the BART concourse.
- Meggs initiated the BaAtT Cave Bicycle Library in North Oakland, which served kids of all ages for eight years (1995-2003). Meggs initiated two other bicycle libraries and served as a volunteer mechanic and coordinator for all three.
- Meggs co-founded the Bicycle Civil Liberties Union to address the endemic and institutional, deadly inequities which discriminate against bicycling, walking, and the use of wheelchairs.
- Meggs created Bicycle Liberation Radio, a three-hour pirate radio show on bicycle culture, politics and perspectives, which ran every Friday night for six years, 1995-2001, on Free Radio Berkeley 104.1 FM (later on Berkeley Liberation Radio). The show included bicycle music, news, interviews, reports from the field, and many studio guests. Radio theater was a regular attraction, with sound effects, character role playing and improv, and "call-in chaos." The Renegade Bicycle Typo-thon, celebrating manual typewriters, often contributed fantastical news stories to the clickety-clack-ching-riiiiip of the faux teletype. A "Best Of" compilation is in the works, with an intention to post old episodes to the web.
- Meggs is a member of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP).
- Meggs is a member of the American Planning Association (APA).
- Meggs was a two-year a member of the steering committee of World Carfree Network, helping organize the Carfree Cities Conference 2008-2010.
Research groups:
And much more.
-------
Back