VIDEO. Tim Rogers, Trails Program Manager, Safe Routes to School Coordinator, Santa Fe Conservation Trust, spoke on the Vamanos walking and hiking program that starts in May and runs through October. His presentation at the Prepared by Men’s Breakfast on April 8 is now available.
As SFCT’s Trails Program Manager since the start of 2014, Tim Rogers organizes volunteers to help maintain and build local trails, plans new trails and other improvements for bicyclists and pedestrians in our area in collaboration with various public and private partners, takes hundreds of local students out to public trails and open space each year through the Passport to Trails program, supports SFCT’s “Vamonos Santa Fe Walks” series of 30 annual community walks, and coordinates the multi-faceted Safe Routes to School program promoting walking and biking to school in Santa Fe.
Tim is well-known in the Santa Fe area for his “Community Cruise” bicycle rides and for creating the first edition of the Santa Fe Metropolitan Bicycle Master Plan, which was adopted by the City and County in 2012. He has Master’s Degrees in Community and Regional Planning as well as Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico. Prior to joining SFCT, Tim brought over twenty years of experience working in the public sector and as a consultant to the New Mexico Departments of Transportation and Health, the Santa Fe Metropolitan Planning Organization, UNM’s Prevention Research Center, and community partners around the state to plan for and promote walking and bicycling as “active transportation.” Tim currently serves on the City Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee’s “Technical Review Subcommittee.”
In 2019, Tim helped organize a NM Rail History Celebration in Santa Fe, including presenting on rails-to-trails and rail trail opportunities throughout the state, in Historic Rails and Trails, an expansion on Santa Fe-focused material Tim had presented in 2015, Rail Trails as Creative Heritage Trails. In 2016, Tim was honored for his long record of local advocacy work with the “Gail Ryba Bicycling Advocate of the Year Award.” In 2015, Tim received national recognition for his statewide work to promote physically-active transportation in the form of the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors’ “Cullen Award.”
View video below.