The Association of Pedestrian & Biking Professionals (APBP) is recognizing Transit Miami friend, Kathryn Reid Moore for her many contributions to Bike Miami Days with the Young Professional of the Year award. She will be the first person to ever receive this award at the 10th International Conference on Walking and Livable Communities, held in New York City on October 7 – 9.
In addition, the Florida Bicycle Association has selected Bike Miami Days and Bike Miami Rides to receive the Event of the Year Award.
Congratulations to Kathryn and to all of those that worked so hard to make Bike Miami Days a success. This recognition promises to be the beginning of something bigger for Miami.
Ms. Moore’s receipt of this award is awesome, and she deserves tons of individual praise, but the award is significant for multiple reasons:
1) Her work would not have been successful if there had not been a want from the community to see more bicycle-related improvements and activities throughout the Miami area.
2) Her winning of the award should be an inspiration to the rest of Miami’s young activist community that our work can and will get recognized, and that we should push on at all costs.
3) There is hope for Miami! We are lucky in that we are still a work in progress, and thus, for the most part, we can only go up from here. Awards like Kathryn’s are symbolic of this going-upness!
Congrats Kathryn, congrats Miami’s bike community, congrats to Miami!