WHEELING AROUND
Members and guests at the ChamberSOUTH General Membership Breakfast on Friday, July 24th heard an informative and mesmerizing presentation by Herb Hiller of WHEELS Florida. WHEELS is an inaugural event planned for November 11-15 to bring together public transit, bicycling and walking initiatives in South Florida to improve our quality of life.
The breakfast was hosted by the ChamberSOUTH Transportation Committee and presented by South Florida Commuter Services and FDOT.
In her remarks to the guests, Suzell Hopman, Special Projects Manager for Commuter Services noted that South Florida motorists on average spend 16 hours, drive 600 miles and spend $645 a month. “We’ve got to change that dynamic and transform our lives,” says Herb Hiller.
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- Herb Hiller has been a leader in placemaking in the Caribbean and Florida for almost 50 years. Herb advocates for ecotourism, trails and bicycling, and has been a leader in the modern-day Florida bicycling movement. For the past eight years he has consulted with the East Coast Greenway Alliance, a nonprofit that links 2,900 miles of local trails into the largest off-road paved trail in America, with a large presence in Miami-Dade County.
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- Pictured presenting a framed poster of the ChamberSOUTH Art Festival poster to the speaker are: John Edward Smith, Herb Hiller, ChamberSOUTH Chair Claudia Cancio, Victor Dover, Maricé Chael and Suzell Hopman.
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- Suzell Hoffman of South Florida Commuter Services
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- SOMI Magazine Publisher and commuter cyclist John Edward Smith introduced the speaker.
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- WHEELS Chair Victor Dover of Dover Kohl & Partners Urban Planners hawking the Save the Date card.
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- Claudia Cancio
