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Today 69 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to set a national goal to reduce bicyclist deaths.…

Cross-posted from the Advocacy Advance blog At 197 square miles, the city of Tulsa is larger than San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C. and Miami combined. There are enough lane miles…

As a bicycle commuter, Adonia Lugo noticed a clear shift in cycling when she moved from Portland to Los Angeles in 2007. For the innovative scholar, that distinction led to…

All of a sudden, history seems to be the “in” thing. First, there was the glorious return of the winged wheel to the League’s logo. Then there were several requests…

Guest post by Fionnoula Quinn, civil engineer at Alta Planning + Design and board member for Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling Mia Birk fell in love with bicycling while attending…

Guest post by Stefanie Seskin, Deputy Director of the National Complete Streets Coalition Complete Streets. The phrase feels so natural and obvious now, almost as though it appeared in our vocabulary…

When she got pregnant and had her first child, Megan Odett knew her life would never be the same: “I thought I lost everything I liked about the person I…

Guest post by Margo Pedroso, Deputy Director, Safe Routes to School National Partnership As the founder and director of the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, Deb Hubsmith has made it…

Guest post by Marya McQuirter  Years ago while working on her dissertation on the social history of blacks in D.C. during the first half of the 20th century, McQuirter came…

Veronica Davis couldn’t have put it better: “A lot of times we try to make women this monolithic group — but we’re not.” From the Fender Bender LGBT crew out of…