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Secretary LaHood is pumped for the National Bike Summit

By bikeleague | March 4, 2011
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The Secretary of Transportation is getting ready for the National Bike Summit. Are you?

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Global Cycling Community Rallies to Support Brazilian Cyclists

By bikeleague | March 2, 2011
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Virtually everyone that forwarded footage of the awful scenes of a car plowing into a crowd of cyclists in Brazil this week prefaced their message by saying “if you can…

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Transportation Choice and Economic Competitiveness (Video)

By bikeleague | February 23, 2011
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New StreetFilms video: Leaders from New York, San Francisco and Portland talk about what bicycling means for their city.

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Enough is enough — another fatality in Tampa

By bikeleague | February 19, 2011
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Sad to say that the awful series of fatal bike crashes in Tampa last year has carried over into the new year. Despite a gratifying response to the need for…

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The Cost Effectiveness of Active Transportation Investments

By bikeleague | February 17, 2011
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Around here we love data, so after I sent the latest safety in numbers data around the office, it took Andy less than an hour to try to one-up me.…

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New Arrival for Advocacy Advance

By bikeleague | February 14, 2011
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We’re delighted to welcome Brighid O’Keane to the Advocacy Advance team. Brighid, pictured below with Jeff Peel and Bill Nesper from the League staff, is actually a brand new employee…

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Making the Most of Bike Month — Club Leadership Webinar

By Scott | February 11, 2011
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On Tuesday evening, Greg Billing of the Washington Area Bicyclists Association and Griff Baute of the Bluegrass Cycling Club joined Andy Clarke and myself for the monthly Club Leadership Webinar.…

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Reasons to be cheerful, parts one, two, and three

By bikeleague | February 10, 2011
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Almost every day we get fresh confirmation that getting more people on bikes is a good idea, and that the kinds of things we’ve been advocating for years are actually…

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Traffic Justice for Matthew Burke

By bikeleague | February 10, 2011
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On October 1st, fifteen cyclists left Outspokin’ bike shop in Savannah Augusta, GA on their weekly ride across the state border into rural Aiken, SC. While riding along Beech Island…

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Ridership up, crashes down: “Safety in Numbers” in Minneapolis

By bikeleague | February 10, 2011
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The average annual number of bicycle/motor vehicle crashes in Minneapolis between 1993 and 1999 was 334. Since 2000, the number has dropped 20 percent to 269. Why? Are fewer people…

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