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Randy Neufeld, Chief Strategy Officer, Active Transportation Alliance

Related Link: http://www.activetrans.org/

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Randy Neufeld is the Chief Strategy Officer for the Active Transportation Alliance, formally known as the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation. Neufeld has been a leader in pedestrian and bicycle transportation in Chicago and the suburbs since becoming CBF executive director in 1987. He has experience working in all aspects of bicycle and pedestrian promotion including planning, mapping, safety education, marketing, design, funding, policy, and public involvement. Neufeld serves on the Chicago Bicycle Advisory Council, the Chicago Pedestrian Advisory Council and the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning Transportation Committee. He is president of America Bikes the national coalition working to grow bicycling through federal transportation policy and funding. He is the founding chair of the Thunderhead Alliance. Neufeld plays a leadership role in the National Complete Streets Coalition and the National Partnership for Safe Routes to School.

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December 31, 2008 04:32 PM

RE: What Are Ray LaHood's Biggest Challenges?

As the transportation guy on Obama’s team promising change, Ray LaHood’s biggest obstacle in surface transportation is inertia. Right now every state has a suite of multi-year highway programs and long-range plans that spend every penny of projected transportation revenue for at least a decade, even the funds that are just a glimmer in a Secretary’s eye. The authors of those programs and plans want you to think it is a revenue issue. Revenue is not unimportant, but if everything gets built according to spec it’s only going to give us a bigger broken system. Our economic and environmental crises demand that we rethink…  Read more
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