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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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Over the past three years, Rapid Response Grants have supported campaigns that have won over $120 million in public investments for active transportation projects. The grantees have produced real-world campaign plans to show other advocacy organizations how it has been done. This fall 2014, Advocacy Advance is announcing its “Big Ideas” Grants. Modeled after our successful Rapid Response Grant program, Advocacy Advance will award $30,000 total—3 grants of $10,000 each—to organizations that are pushing forward on some of the most important areas of bicycling and walking advocacy. “Big Ideas” Grants are intended to help with unforeseen opportunities, short-term campaigns or to push campaigns into the end zone to win funding for biking and walking infrastructure and programs.
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In this LCI Corner, educators Jason Tanzman and Hannah Geil-Neufeld from Cycles for Change in the Twin Cities share how their efforts are matching the needs of many women, low-income residents and immigrants through their Bike Library and Learn to Ride programs. Read more!
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On September 11, Future Bike brought together leaders from across the country to discuss the intersection of mobility and identity. With nearly 150 attendees, the forum created candid and inspiring dialogue on how to create a more inclusive bike movement. Here’s a taste of the conversation on Twitter.
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Last week in Pittsburgh, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx, announced a groundbreaking agenda by US DOT to address the safety of people who bike and walk in all 50 states. “Safety is our highest priority and that commitment is the same regardless of which form of transportation people choose, including walking and biking,” Foxx told the more than 1,000 attendees at the Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place conference.
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Today we are featuring Jim Silcott, principal extraordinaire and National Bike Challenge rider. Silcott has been an educator for 35 years and is now in his 26th year as principal of Trinity Catholic Elementary school in Columbus, Ohio. He set the impressive goal of riding to school every day no matter what the weather, no matter what he has on his daily schedule and no matter what time he may end his work day. Rain or snow, early arrival or late departure, he is ready to ride and he is recording his miles in the National Bike Challenge for all of us to cheer him on.
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Initiated in 2010, Slow Roll is a mass bicycle ride that takes place every Monday night in Detroit. Last month, I was able to join the Slow Roll, riding through the Motor City with more than 4,000 people, experiencing the bicycle as truly a great equalizer, a device that can bring us together: one gigantic, happy family of humankind.
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What role do physical and digital technology play in expanding access to streets and input into the design process? How can new technologies make bicycling more accessible for more people by revealing and closing gaps in who counts? Those are the questions facing our Future Technology panelists at this Thursday’s Future Bike forum, a half-day conference focused on the intersection of identity and mobility.
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For many bicyclists, a Learn to Ride class or Bicycle Maintenance 101 is an introduction — a gateway — to the bike movement. Ensuring such classes are inviting, inclusive, and a safe space to learn is essential to the getting more diverse riders on bikes. Understanding that effective, culturally-competent education is one path toward achieving equity, we’ll be diving into this discussion at our Future Bike event in Pittsburgh next week.
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