RSSSun 22 Feb 2009
Obama’s new Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs is none other than Shaun McGrath, who resigned as mayor of Boulder to take this post. Shaun is a well established bike advocate, and was instrumental in helping Boulder achieve Platinum bike friendly city status. Shaun will now be the liaison between the white house and local governments. It’s pretty great that someone who understands the value of bicycling will be working to help other local governments go green.
I happen to have some pics I took of Shaun this summer at the DNC Freewheelin’ launch event that back up his bicycling street cred. Here he is talking to Garmin/Chipotle directeur sportif, Jonathan Vaughters, on the inaugural Freewheelin’ ride:
(Note, he’s rocking the Valmont BikePark T-Shirt, Awesome!)
Here he is at the press conference:
Getting ready to ride:
I’m hoping Shaun can spread a little of the Boulder magic nationwide.
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It seems Boulder faired well on the ARRA stimulus; where Denver, a much larger population, and really hurting for good inner city bicycle transit improvements, missed the boat. Does our Major and Govenor notice that Denver is far down on the list of bike friendly cities? Interesting report on bike projects ready to go.
http://www.americabikes.org/docs/America_Bikes_Ready_to_Go_Projects_lr.pdf