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Today the Census Bureau released its annual estimate of how Americans get to work. Unfortunately, 2015 is the first year since 2010 that the fastest growing mode of getting to work — biking — has shown a slight decline. However, 43 of the 70 largest cities have continued to see more people biking to work.
Read More →The League of American Bicyclists welcomes 57 new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Businesses (BFB℠) to the Bicycle Friendly America program today. Over 1,200 visionary businesses from across the country have earned this status. Now there are BFBs in 49 states and the District of Columbia.
Read More →On August 20, the public comment period on the transportation performance measures ended. This was an opportunity to comment on FHWA’s draft rule on what performance measures states and metropolitan areas should use to measure congestion mitigation, air quality and the reliability of our road system.
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For the most part, I’ve kept my advocacy worlds separate, but recently at the National Bike Summit I was challenged to reflect on why maybe they shouldn’t be kept quite so separate.
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To transportation planners, when a new person gets on a bike, it’s called a “mode shift.” For many of us who have taken up cycling, however, it represents a frame shift — a change in how we see and understand transportation in our cities.
Read More →This is a historical election year. It’s the first time (at least in this century) that both major party platforms include the word bicycle! But, do party platforms even matter?
Read More →During 16 years of public service to the City of Palo Alto, Kathy Durham created one of the most successful Safe Routes to School programs in the nation.
Read More →The Gail and Jim Spann Educator of the Year Award, named for two of the League’s education champions and benefactors, is the League’s highest bicycling education honor.
Read More →Presenting Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) the Legislator of the Year award at the 2016 National Bike Summit & Women’s Forum was one of those classic moments of the Summit. Just as I got on stage to introduce him, the fire alarm went off.
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For the past few months I have been Vice Chair of the Board and, under the leadership of Karen Jenkins, our Chair, it has been a very productive time for the whole board. My passion for cycling and for the League’s long history has kept me energized and grateful for the amazing work we do. I have a strong focus on education and for our Smart Cycling program in particular.
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