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The San Diego Bike Coalition named Will Rhatigan to the biking group as its latest advocacy supervisor. 

As advocacy supervisor, Rhatigan will lead the event of methods to trace bicycle infrastructure initiatives, insurance policies and plans to make sure that bike owner security is prioritized within the area’s planning. His principal focus shall be to work with native authorities officers and communities to make biking extra accessible and equitable. 

Rhatigan will assist the Bike Coalition advocate for and defend the rights of all individuals who journey. The Coalition’s advocacy supervisor works carefully with communities and public officers on efforts to make San Diego a fair safer group to commute, play and discover by meals and by bicycle by means of outreach and consciousness campaigns. 

Rhatigan is a lifelong bike owner who’s dedicated to constructing sustainable communities that run on bicycles. An alum of Harvard School, Rhatigan’s previous analysis centered on how post-industrial cities may redevelop into socially and environmentally simply communities.  

Whereas touring by means of Europe as a author for Let’s Go Journey Guides throughout certainly one of his summer time breaks, Rhatigan noticed how efficient bicycle transportation infrastructure may revolutionize a metropolis’s high quality of life. He then grew to become dedicated to serving to construct a multimodal transportation community again in the US. 

When he’s not speaking about bikes and concrete design, Rhatigan may be discovered exploring San Diego County’s roads and trails by bicycle or on foot, enthusiastic about city design. 

“Via my travels and profession, I’ve seen first-hand what an infinite contribution secure bicycle infrastructure could make to a metropolis’s high quality of life, and I am excited to start working to make that high quality of life actuality in San Diego,” stated Rhatigan on his appointment as advocacy supervisor for the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition. “I consider that secure, related bikeways are an important consider creating cities which are secure, inexpensive, and sustainable.”

“Will’s steerage will assist the Bike Coalition enact significant change for all cyclists throughout the area,” stated San Diego County Bicycle Coalition government director Andy Hanshaw. “As our area embarks on a plan to broaden biking routes and infrastructure, Will has the expertise and imaginative and prescient essential to see this by means of.”