Oregon Bicycle Summit ends on poignant note
Posted on April 16th, 2007 at 10:55 am.
“We can’t leave this conference and go back to our silos.”
–Tom Jefferson, husband of the late Jane Higdon, in a speech at the Oregon Bicycle Summit.
Tom Jefferson, a soft-spoken and thoughtful cyclist from Eugene, was the final speaker at the Oregon Bicycle Summit. Jefferson is the husband of the late Jane Higdon, who was killed while riding her bicycle in Eugene last summer.
Jefferson gave us an update on efforts to honor Higdon’s death and he urged us to work together and “speak the same language” to make Oregon a safer place for bicycles,[Read more…]