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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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IIHS report recommends solutions to reduce pedestrian fatalities

By Caron Whitaker | May 10, 2018
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This week, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released a new report looking at the increases in pedestrian motor vehicle crash fatalities during 2009–16.

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BFB program celebrates 10th anniversary with 114 new Awards

By bikeleague | May 10, 2018
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Today, as part of National Bike Month, the League of American Bicyclists welcomes 114 new and renewing businesses from 30 states and Washington, DC, to its Bicycle Friendly Business (BFB) program.

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Car-Free at Bike Expo New York

By Ken McLeod | May 7, 2018
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This past weekend I had the opportunity to represent the League of American Bicyclists at Bike Expo New York in support the Five Boro Bike Tour. It was great to meet hundreds of people over two days who were excited to ride through New York City in streets free of motor vehicles.

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Bike Month Dates and Resources

By bikeleague | May 1, 2018
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National Bike Month is here! Read on for dates of important #BikeMonth events and tools to use to make your May better.

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Advocating for the Sport of Women’s Cycling

By bikeleague | May 1, 2018
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By identifying or creating safe environments to ride, we offer girls and women the opportunity to give cycling a try. The women I work with say being on a bike brings them closer to nature, to their community and to themselves and, along the way, they discover (or rediscover) the joy of riding a bike.

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US DOT makes changes to TIGER … and Congress isn’t happy

By Caron Whitaker | April 30, 2018
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Thanks to all of our National Bike Summit attendees who came to Washington and advocated with their members of Congress. One of our asks this year was to robustly fund the TIGER program.

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Auto makers study for the test: Why automated vehicles need to prove they can see bicyclists and pedestrians

By Caron Whitaker | April 25, 2018
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Last week, Bill Nesper and I attended a tour and crash test demonstration at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. We learned a lot about how they test and about what they’ve learned.

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