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Ciclovida: The Cycle of Life, a Sevilla success

By bikeleague | March 29, 2011
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Guest blogger: Virginia Tech cyclist Lyndsay McKeever, intern for Transportation and Campus Services at Virginia Tech, is guest blogging from Velo-City Sevilla, Spain. Yesterday’s Ciclovida, “el cyclo de la vida” or…

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A National Bike Map

By bikeleague | March 28, 2011
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A different kind of bike map. Click on image for larger version courtesy of WeBikeEugene.org This one is for our visual learners. Kory Northrop, a master’s student in the Environmental…

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A Call for Cooperation Among Bicycle-friendly Communities Around the World

By bikeleague | March 26, 2011
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Guest blogger: Virginia Tech cyclist Lyndsay McKeever, intern for Transportation and Campus Services at Virginia Tech, is guest blogging this week from Velo-City Sevilla, Spain. Yesterday at the Annual Meeting of…

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Long Beach mourns loss of bicycling advocate Mark Bixby

By bikeleague | March 25, 2011
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I never met Mark Bixby in person, but during his campaign to convince officals to include separated bicycle and pedestrian paths on the new Desmond Gerald Replacement Bridge at the Port…

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Velo-City — How Sevilla, Spain is becoming a world-class bicycling city

By bikeleague | March 24, 2011
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Guest blogger: Virginia Tech cyclist Lyndsay McKeever, intern for Transportation and Campus Services at Virginia Tech, is guest blogging this week from Velo-City Sevilla, Spain. See the conference’s program here. On…

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LaHood meets with Portland’s bike advocates

By bikeleague | March 22, 2011
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Portland Mayor Sam Adams and US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (photo: Portland Mercury) Speaking to a small group of bicycling advocates at Oregon’s Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA), Transportation Secretary Ray…

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Advocacy Advance grants available

By bikeleague | March 21, 2011
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Last month we told you about our new colleague on the Advocacy Advance team, Brighid O’Keane. During the National Bike Summit, we announced the new Advocacy Advance webpage. Today, we are…

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New Mexico moving closer to a 5 Foot Safe Passing Law

By bikeleague | March 18, 2011
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Having passed through both the New Mexico Senate and House, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez now has twenty days to sign SB 124 in order to make this bill into…

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Fighting for Funding in Houston

By bikeleague | March 17, 2011
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A February proposal before the Houston-Galveston Area Council’s Transportation Policy Council (TPC) called for cuts to bike, pedestrian and transit funding in the region’s Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for 2011-2014.…

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Bike Trail Boosts Business in Mississippi

By bikeleague | March 16, 2011
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[Note: As a board member of Bike Walk Mississippi I had the honor of joining advocates from my home state during the Thursday lobby day of last week’s National Bike…

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