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USA Today’s Drive On Blog recently had a provocative piece asking whether motorists have let cyclists rights go too far – apparently missing the irony that it was cyclists in…

See a slide show of Balance Bikes in the New York Times. Lucky kid From the New York Times: BALANCE bikes, long popular in Europe, are making inroads in the…

A program in recently awarded Bronze Level Bicycle Friendly Community Sioux Falls, SD recently made NBC Nightly News. The story, dubbed “Cash for Two-wheel Clunkers”, highlights a Bike-to-Work program that…

In case you missed it on our homepage or Facebook update, this past Monday we announced our Fall round of new Bicycle Friendly Communities! We are excited to add 15…

Continuing the trend of funding–related posts this week, here is a new report, The Regional Response to Federal Funding for Bicycle and Pedestrian Projects [executive summary, full report,] from UC…

CMAQ funded 80 percent of the $1.35 million McDonald’s Cycle Center in Chicago’s Millennium Park. When it comes to finding federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects, many people have…

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released its estimate of the amount spent (obligated) on bicycle and pedestrian projects and programs in FY 2009 — and at $1.2 billion, its…

The League has been busy following several issues on Capitol Hill ranging from livable communities to the many complexities of the Transportation Bill and transportation funding. Below is a summary…

As we reported earlier, according to the US Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey (ACS), released on September 22, 2009, 0.55 percent of Americans use a bicycle as the primary…

Some mid-week fun from the UK’s CTC: [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”125″,”attributes”:{“class”:”media-image”,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”height”:”344″,”width”:”425″,”style”:””}}]]