Bikestation Coalition Board Biographies

 As of December 19th, 2007

Todd Boulanger, Chairperson

Senior Transportation Planner for the City of Vancouver, Transportation Services. Responsibilities

include: planning and programming for the City's neighborhood traffic calming program; bicycle 

and pedestrian facilities design, staff liaison for CDBG transportation projects, on-street parking

 and Flexcar - Vancouver; and project administrator for EPA Clean Air Transportation Communities 

funded hybrid car and bicycle sharing demonstration project ('GreenFleet'). 

Awards: Recipient of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance's 2005 Alice B Toeclips award for those in

Oregon and SW Washington whose work has promoted the use of bicycles and increased the

livability of area communities.   

John Case, Co-Founder

John and his wife Georgia conceived and promoted the idea of starting a nonprofit alternative transportation movement around bike parking in downtown Long Beach in 1991. The concept was developed by observing and reading about successful European and Japanese bike parking models connected to light rail, bus transit, and downtown urban cores. The first Bikestation opened in 1996 in Long Beach, CA with funding from local and federal funds. John was the first Executive Director of the Bikestation Coalition from 1996 to 1999. John graduated from the University of Denver and has been involved in various real estate projects over the years in Southern California and Arizona. John lives in Long Beach with his wife Georgia and 11 year old son John Paul. He also sits on the Long Beach Opera Board and enjoys various sports, arts, and travel.        

Amanda Eichstaedt

Amanda  has served on the Bikestation Board of directors since 1999. Amanda oversaw the Bikestation Palo Alto project as manager of Palo Alto Bicycles from 1998 to 1999 and then took a job with the City of Palo Alto as a Transportation Coordinator where she acted as liaison to the Bikestation project in Palo Alto. During this time Amanda helped secure grant funding for upgrades to the Palo Alto project that are currently underway. Currently Amanda works as a consultant to various transportation projects while being an innkeeper at a bicycle friendly Bed and Breakfast (the Bear Valley Inn) in Marin County near the Point Reyes Peninsula.

Currently Amanda serves as president of the League of American Bicyclists and in the past has served on the following boards: Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, Association of Commuter Transportation, Northern California Chapter, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition and the Bay Area Bicycle Coalition. Amanda has served on the Palo Alto Bicycle Advisory Committee, the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Bicycle Advisory Committee and on the Region Bicycle Plan oversight committee for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. In 1999 Amanda was voted a Clean Air Champion for her work on bicycle promotions by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.  Amanda accompanied Bikestation staff and fellow board representatives on a research tour for Bikestation in Germany and Holland in 2003.

Amanda and her husband Ken enjoy bicycling, trail running, cooking and gardening and are teaching their puppy to be a willing passenger in a bicycle drawn dog crate while they visit the beautiful areas near where they live.

Duane G. Hickling, Treasurer 

Mr. Hickling brings a strong background in management, strategic planning, asset management and assessment, operations improvement, and organizational development.  He has extensive experience in assessing organizations’ performance and leading change.  His management experience includes leading organizations of up to 1,200+ employees and $75 million in annual operating budget.  Mr. Hickling also has a great deal of experience in implementing organizational monitoring systems for performance reporting and tracking.

Formerly, Mr. Hickling held positions of Associate Vice President at the University of Chicago and Assistant Vice Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.  His responsibilities included facilities operations, planning and construction, environmental health and safety, parking and transportation, capital budget development, and campus planning.  Previously, he was at the University of Southern California where he was Executive Olympics Administrator for the 1984 Olympic Games before moving into a facilities operations role. 

Erika Lindemann, Vice Chair - Secretary

Erika joined the Bikestation Coalition with over 6 years of experience promoting sustainable transportation.  After graduating from UCSC with a BA in Environmental Studies, Erika began working for the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission’s rideshare agency, Commute Solutions, where she worked as a commute consultant.  In 2001 she also worked for a small non-profit agency in Santa Cruz, Bike to Work, and helped implement and oversee a variety of projects aimed at getting people to try bicycle commuting. 

In 2002 Erika returned to her hometown of Santa Barbara, CA to work for the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) Traffic Solutions.  At Traffic Solutions, Erika's responsibilities include bicycle planning, employer outreach, commute consulting and liaison to the bicycle community.  She is Event Coordinator for Santa Barbara County's Bike to Work project, which includes the headlining event, the Team Bike Challenge. She is also a League of American Bicyclists Cycling Instructor and enjoys teaching bicycle street skills to adults and children. Erika serves on several nonprofit boards including the Santa Barbara Mountain Bike Trail Volunteers and as an advisor to the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition.  She is also active with Leadership Santa Barbara County. Erika enjoys most sports including bicycling, hiking, snowboarding, surfing and swimming.  She also loves traveling and learning foreign languages.

Robert Petering

Robert is a retired labor relations attorney. He has been on the Bikestation Coalition board since 1998.  His legal knowledge, common sense, wit, and house in Truckee, CA have been invaluable assets to the Bikestation movement over the years. Robert grew up in St. Louis. He attended the University of Kansas as well as Western law school in San Diego. Robert also volunteers to the Air and Space Museum in San Diego and the Scripts Aquarium in La Jolla, CA. He is an avid Scuba diver, bicyclist, and swimmer. He is married to his wife Jane and has two children, Robin and Brad.      

Michael Replogle
Transportation Director, Washington DC Office Programs: Living Cities
Topics: Air Quality, Transportation
Michael Replogle manages Environmental Defense's initiatives to link transportation, land use, and natural resource plans and programs to enhance public health, equity and environmental quality. He is an expert on federal transportation law and policy, transportation impact analysis, and strategies to reduce traffic and pollution through incentives, smart growth, marketing and improved accountability. He works with federal and state agencies, Congress, local officials, business and activists to promote reform. He has worked extensively in metropolitan Washington/Baltimore, New York, Atlanta, Denver, Portland, Oregon and other regions. His work in Atlanta helped redirect $300 million from sprawl-inducing roads to transit and safety projects.

As a civil engineer and transportation modeling expert, he has served as an expert witness in several major environmental and transportation law cases. He conceived and helped win a 50% Maryland tax credit for employer-provided transit and cash-in-lieu-of-parking benefits. He produced three award-winning television ads encouraging employees to ask their employer for these benefits.

Treasurer (1990-present) and a co-founder of Clean Air and Transportation, which educates the public about how transportation choices affect the environment. Co-founder and president (1984-present) of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, which promotes sustainable transportation reforms in developing and newly industrialized economies. Author of numerous reports and articles on transportation strategies in Europe, Asia and the United States.

Consultant, U.S. Federal Highway Administration and the World Bank on non-motorized transportation, planning methods, and sustainable transportation strategies (1992); transportation coordinator, Montgomery County (MD) Planning Department (1983-1992); transportation research associate, Public Technology, Inc., technical arm of US National League of Cities, Washington, DC (1979-1982).

M.S.E., B.S.E. cum laude, Civil and Urban Engineering, and B.A. cum laude Sociology, all from the University of Pennsylvania.