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This week, the New York Times took a look at the “end of car culture,” analyzing America’s trend away from car ownership as other modes of transportation continue to rise in popularity and use. Cynthia Hoyle, a planner with Orion Planning Group and a League Cycling Instructor, offers her thoughts on this cultural shift in this guest post.
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The League recently released 19 education videos that cover topics from fitting a bike to riding in traffic. They are free and available to the public on our Ride Smart video page.
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Adding to the discussion around our recent report: “The New Majority: Pedaling Toward Equity,” the League and Sierra Club hosted a live, online video chat to dig deeper into issues around equity last week. Moderated by Hamzat Sani, this engaging conversation featured both local and national leaders…
Read More →The good news: His answers were positive. The bad news: The answers are so vague — especially the one on performance measures — it tells me we have a lot of work to do to convince the new Secretary that a non-motorized safety performance measures is a critical step to “offering the public safe transportation choices” as “a priority at the Department.”
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With a vote of 100-0 in the Senate, Anthony Foxx won confirmation today as the next U.S. Secretary for the Department of Transportation. We’ve been following the former Charlotte Mayor’s nomination process closely, and we’re excited to get to work with the new Secretary.
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The very existence of this conference symbolizes the importance that bicycling is playing as cities think about their futures. n an enthusiastic key note address, Professor John Pucher updated the audience on the latest innovations…
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Yesterday marked a major advance for the bicycle advocacy community in Richmond, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and, I would argue, for the nation as a whole. On the steps of the Capitol, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor…
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Women’s bicycling forums are spurring or starting important conversations about female ridership in communities nationwide. Most recently, the Boise Bicycle Project got the discussion rolling with the first women’s-specific event during the city’s annual bike festival, Pedal 4 the People.
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School is out and summer is upon us, which means more kids on bikes more of the time. So when James Becker, a junior at a nearby high school, wrote and asked if I could help out with a kid’s bike education class, I didn’t hesitate.
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In the 1970s, mandatory use laws of some sort existed in 38 states. Since that time many cycling advocates and state legislatures have worked together to repeal many of those laws. Today there are 17 states with some type of mandatory use law and only 11 of those states have laws that apply in most circumstances.
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