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New Report: Collaborative Advocacy in Action in Portland

By bikeleague | August 13, 2012
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Who benefits from bicycling in your community? Alison Graves, executive director of the Community Cycling Center, posed that important question in the May-June issue of the League’s magazine. In the…

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Women’s Summit Spotlight: Leah Missbach Day

By bikeleague | August 10, 2012
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“Bicycles have long played a role in my life,” Leah Missbach Day wrote in 2011. “As a young woman, I rode one year-round before I had a car. But it…

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National Bike Challenge Hits 10 Million Miles!!!

By bikeleague | August 9, 2012
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We did it! With three weeks left in the online competition, the National Bike Challenge hit its goal of 10 million miles this morning. I had already biked into the…

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BFA Means Bicycle Friendly Advocacy

By bikeleague | August 9, 2012
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No, the League isn’t going to start ranking advocacy groups. But we are expanding our tradition of partnering with state and local advocacy groups on the Bicycle Friendly America program.…

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Navigating MAP-21: How Much Money Will My State Get?

By bikeleague | August 8, 2012
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The new transportation law, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) creates a new program called Transportation Alternatives program (TA). TA combines several key funding pots from the…

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3 Reasons to Attend Pro Walk Pro Bike

By bikeleague | August 7, 2012
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You gotta love a city that boldly professes on the side of its City Hall — “Long Beach: The most bike-friendly city in the U.S.” The industrial town just outside…

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Women Who Ride: Fionnuala Quinn

By bikeleague | August 6, 2012
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In honor of National Bike Month, we brought you the Why I Ride series. This month, in anticipation of the National Women’s Bicycling Summit in Long Beach, Calif., we’re bringing…

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July/August Magazine Now Online

By bikeleague | August 3, 2012
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The July/August issue of the League’s magazine — American Bicyclist — is now online! Features in this edition include: growing bipartisan support for bicycling, a Spanish-language PSA campaign in Los…

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Congratulations to Bike Challenge Winners!

By bikeleague | August 2, 2012
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When we kicked off the National Bike Challenge in May, we knew our goal was ambitious: Unite American bicyclists to ride 10 million miles this summer. Well, with three months…

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Bike Leaders Honored by White House as Champions of Change

By bikeleague | August 1, 2012
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If you attended the National Women Cycling Forum or read the “Women on a Roll” feature in the May-June issue of American Bicyclist, you’ve been inspired by the work of…

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