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Last week, our friends the Alliance for Biking & Walking’s PeoplePoweredBlog reported on an achievement in Missouri: After years of work by the Missouri Bicycle and Pedestrian Federation, the Missouri DOT put…
Read More →The context that framed our Advocacy Advance report on bicycling and Climate Action Plans (PDF) was that strong federal action on climate change was not forthcoming and, as a result,…
Read More →In front of the office of the Honorable Ron Wyden, Senator from Oregon On Tuesday myself and Walter Finch made the trek up to Capitol Hill to deliver hundreds of…
Read More →This isn’t how I wanted to spend International Walk and Bike to School Day. True, I was able to ride with my daughter to school this morning, but then had…
Read More →With nearly 34,000 traffic fatalities in 2009 — 630 of them of bicyclists — there is a huge need to spend safety funds quickly and strategically. However, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has…
Read More →The League is offering its second club leadership webinar this evening, focusing on all aspects of running your club’s membership campaign. Our panel includes Dan Ehrmann of ClubExpress, Mary Derks,…
Read More →At the Pro-walk/Pro-bike conference in Chattanooga last month, we announced the official launch of the Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) program. Like the Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC), the Bicycle Friendly State…
Read More →Earlier this summer, we alerted our members to the potential major loss of funding for bike projects and programs posed by a new round of “rescissions” – the process by…
Read More →We thank the experts over at Fair Vote for their technical assistance in this test vote; they’ll also be supporting the count of the board election. The board of directors…
Read More →I’ve been poring over the 2009 American Community Survey numbers this morning, looking at the 70 largest U.S. cities and their bike to work data. Notwithstanding my colleague Darren’s caveats…
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