Randall
Route choice, traffic reading, equipment discipline, and almost a decade of lived street-level transportation experience.
Mobility and public systems
Transportation from the street up
Transportation policy looks different when a person has used transit with small children and then spent nearly a decade commuting on one wheel, close enough to pavement, drainage, signals, sight lines, and driver behavior to notice what a windshield edits out.
BCAG and transit
Regional responsibility and daily use reinforced one another.
Transit with young childrenUse an image documenting actual family transit use, not a generic bus-fleet pose.
Policy is more honest when the policymaker uses the system.
Randall served on the BCAG Board from 2012–2015 and again from 2018–2020. When his children were younger, he actively used the transit system with them, experiencing schedules, transfers, waiting environments, accessibility, family logistics, and the gap between a route map and a workable trip.
That perspective accompanied regional decisions about mobility, infrastructure, funding, and transit service.
Electric unicycle
Nearly nine years of personal electric mobility.
Daily electric-unicycle commuteFrame as transportation, street knowledge, and sustainability, never as stunt riding.
Not a novelty. A transportation practice.
For almost an entire decade, Randall has commuted nearly exclusively on a personal electric vehicle, principally an electric unicycle. It is a sustained choice about mobility, efficiency, visibility, geography, and direct contact with the transportation network.
From an EUC, pavement quality, curb transitions, road debris, drainage grates, lighting, turning behavior, traffic speed, sight distance, and hostile gaps in the network are not abstractions in a staff report.
Parenting in motion
The practice became family education.
Krista
Shared family standards, risk judgment, destination logistics, and the broader framework that makes mobility workable rather than performative.
Rhys
Traffic rules, route geography, vehicle awareness, crash consequences, and confidence moving through the city with close supervision.
Karden
Protective habits, visibility, road behavior, landmarks, and a practical understanding of where places sit in relation to one another.
Family outcomes
What children learn outside the rear-view mirror.
Safety literacy
How vehicles move, where drivers fail to look, what happens in a crash, why protective equipment matters, and how to keep safety habits consistent.
Practical geography
Routes, neighborhoods, waterways, schools, crossings, landmarks, and the spatial relationship between destinations become lived knowledge.
Bilingual time together
Rhys and Karden are bilingual. Shared travel creates time for conversation, vocabulary, questions, local history, and the kind of exchange a back seat rarely encourages.