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We created the Diamond Bicycle Friendly Community challenge to keep setting a high bar for the leading BFCs, one that takes into account safety and levels of ridership. In doing so, we looked to our friends in the city of Copenhagen for examples. No, we’re not expecting every city and town in America to adopt the Copenhagen model, but these communities at the top are doing really well and we need to give them options.
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Registration for the 2014 National Bike Summit is now open! With several staff members in Las Vegas for Interbike this week, we’re offering a special discount of $100 off of registration for a limited time. Register here. The annual event will be held March 3-5, 2014, in Washington, D.C. Next year, federal bike funding expires.
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As we head to Interbike, the biggest bike industry event of the year, we checked in with Elly Blue, author and Women Bike Advisory Board member, for her take on how retailers and manufacturers can increase female ridership. Here’s 5 tips for the industry from the author of the forthcoming book, Bikenomics.
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As the national voice for America’s bicyclists, the League is based in Washington, D.C., but our staff is constantly on the road to make biking better in your community. So how have we been serving you — and where will we be next? Here’s this week’s recap and a look ahead…
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Anthony Redding’s old mountain bike hung, untouched, in his garage for a good 15 years. But when he received word he’d have to get both of his knees removed, he decided to make a change and get back on his bike. We caught up with the Hanover, Pa.-based National Bike Challenge participant to talk about his journey back to bicycling.
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I couldn’t have been more excited to see the October issue of Bicycling magazine include a story on “Eight innovators who are flush with new ideas about how bicycles can change the world.” And I wasn’t at all surprised that six of the innovator were women…
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$2.3 billion. Just let that sink in for a second. That’s how much women contributed to the bike industry in 2011. And it’s just a drop in the potential bucket. In our “Women on a Roll” report, we highlight Consumer Products as one of the 5 Cs of Women’s Bicycling.
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Today the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals named Darren Flusche, League Policy Director, the Professional of the Year in the Non-Profit Sector. Flusche was recognized for his work helping bike/ped professionals and advocates navigate and tap funding from MAP-21, the federal transportation bill. Flusche, who’s been League Policy Director since 2009, has spent much of the past year presenting workshops across the country on MAP-21, through his work with Advocacy Advance, the partnership between the League and the Alliance for Biking & Walking.
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At the National Bike Summit in March, Secretary Ray LaHood committed U.S. DOT to improving safety for bicycling and reiterated a promise to look at the agency’s design guidelines for building bicycling facilities. Today, Secretary Anthony Foxx assumes LaHood’s mantle in a significant way. I am in Boulder, Colo., at the bi-annual Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals conference where the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announces new bikeway design guidance that embraces the “NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide,” as well as the more traditional AASHTO bike guide.
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Last week, we shared a release from the Gluskin Townley Group that announced more women, and fewer men are participating in biking. But isn’t that in direct contradiction to the federal data? We checked in with two of the top bike-ped researchers to understand the distinction between the two sets of numbers.
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