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Perhaps the most widely used dataset related to bicycling in the United States is the annual American Community Survey (ACS), the successor to the decennial Census’ so-called “long form.” This survey asks a sub-sample of American households to provide information on a variety of topics such as income, health insurance, disability, housing, and—thankfully—transportation.
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Senator Rodney Ellis may represent thousands of Houston residents when he takes his seat at the Texas capitol in Austin, but when he gets on his bike, he’s an advocate for safe and healthy communities on a much grander scale. A past speaker at the National Bike Summit and bicycle proponent at the annual gathering of the Congressional Black Caucus, Ellis is a leading cycling champion.
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We released our latest round of Bicycle Friendly Business awardees — this biggest round ever for the program — this week. Over the next week, we’re highlighting some of the best stories we heard from the new and renewing honorees. For Phelps, a marketing and communications firm in Santa Monica, Calif., biking to work starts with biking to lunch. This post comes to us from Wesley High, an IT specialist with Phelps, which is a new Silver-level Bicycle Friendly Business.
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This week Advocacy Advance released its latest resource, “Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation” (PDF). This concise primer answers basic questions about public-private partnerships (PPP, or P3) and how bicycling and walking can fit into these projects. Though P3s are becoming an attractive option, our resource goes over some potential benefits and problems with P3s, as well as additional considerations for bicycling and walking advocates.
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A few years ago Advocacy Advance recognized the rise of local ballot initiatives to boost funding for transportation as a key opportunity to raise new funding for biking and walking projects. This summer we had the opportunity to partner with Americans for Transit to invest in new research to identify voters who support funding for transit and biking infrastructure.
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Today, the League of American Bicyclists announced 150 new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Businesses (BFB) in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The largest group of awardees in the program’s history, this latest round grows the ranks of BFBs to more than 800 businesses, government agencies and Fortune 500 companies in 46 states and the District of Columbia.
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Boise, Idaho, and Pittsburgh, Pa., had to laugh last spring: They were both tied for the most Bicycle Friendly Business awardees all-time in their cities. Both sides were then determined to reach the top spot come this Fall. Well, they both did a great job recruiting businesses to recognize the benefits of bicycling in the workplace, encouraging several businesses to apply. Boise and Pittsburgh, as of today’s Fall announcement, are tied again, with four new businesses each! Today, we hear from Boise’s Dave Fotsch, the director of Boise Bike Share, about this cities efforts this round. It’s going to be an exciting Spring for the Bicycle Friendly Business program…
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It came at the end of a long week of keynote speeches and Powerpoint presentations, but Future Bike was an invitation to another dimension. As soon as the conference-weary attendees stepped in the room, there was renewed energy as we ventured into the unknown potential of the bicycle movement.
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For half a day on Thursday, September 11, the Future Bike conference took over a few rooms of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh. Many attendees had also been a part of Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place, the biennial junket for planners, advocates, and other bike/ped professionals that had just wrapped up in the same center. Others were bike-interested Pittsburghers who didn’t attend PWPBPP but had something to share.
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When the League first started analyzing the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) journey to work data to publicize bike commuting rates across American cities, we included a 350-word disclaimer cautioning readers to take the data with a grain of salt. This year, we took to Twitter to parse out the good, bad, and surprising aspects of this year’s ACS bike commuter data. It was a lot more fun.
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