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Bicycle Friendly Community Program Reaches 450 Communities

By bikeleague | May 31, 2018
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Today, to close out National Bike Month, the League of American Bicyclists is awarding 41 new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Communities. With today’s announcement, there are now 450 BFCs in all 50 states and DC.

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Engineering Bicycle Friendliness in Duluth

By bikeleague | May 30, 2018
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Duluth is home to one of Barr Engineering Co.’s nine offices in North America. Their Duluth office earned Gold status as a Bicycle Friendly Business.

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What happened in Tempe

By Caron Whitaker | May 25, 2018
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The National Transportation Safety Bureau released its preliminary findings on the Uber automated vehicle crash in Tempe which killed a pedestrian walking her bicycle.

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Mitchell Auto Group, Gold Bicycle Friendly Business

By bikeleague | May 23, 2018
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A few weeks ago, we recognized 114 new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Businesses (BFBs). One of those businesses is Mitchell Auto Group in Simsbury, CT, the first auto dealer to achieve Gold BFB status.

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Joining Bike Walk CT for Bike to Work Day

By Alison Dewey | May 22, 2018
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Alison Dewey, our Director of Education, joined Bike Walk CT for Bike to Work Day last week, visiting communities and businesses around the state.

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Bicycle Friendly Businesses: Great Recruiting Tool

By Amelia Neptune | May 18, 2018
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The mental and physical health of employees improves when commuting by bicycle is made easy and accessible. Overall impact to the environment is improved by taking cars off the road for commuters.

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Bicycle Friendly Businesses: Healthier, Happier, Faster

By Amelia Neptune | May 17, 2018
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The most positive outcome of our company’s support for bicycling has been a community of employees who encourage each other in their bicycling efforts resulting in an increase in people who bike to work and bike on our trail at lunch.

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Bicycle Friendly Businesses: Helping Communities Flourish

By Amelia Neptune | May 16, 2018
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Supporting our cycling community is a natural result of the firm’s belief that healthy and happy employees are key to successful business. We are also invested in the community where we live and/or work. Seeing Nashville flourish and become more and more bike friendly is both a result of our transportation work and a benefit to everyone who lives here.

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Bicycle Friendly Businesses: Fresh Energy and New Relationships

By Amelia Neptune | May 15, 2018
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The biking community at AIR has been able to find support with each other, to share resources and information and to advocate for additional resources. We have normalized alternative commuting, where before there were barriers for many people.

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Bicycle Friendly Businesses: Boosting Creativity and Mental Health

By Amelia Neptune | May 14, 2018
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In honor of National Bike to Work Week this week, we’ll be sharing our favorite responses from Bicycle Friendly Businesses describing the most positive outcome of their company’s support for bicycling.

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