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The League did two surveys. One was of League members and advocates. Over 4000 advocates from all 50 states responded to this survey. The other survey was done in conjunction with the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals.
Read More →Please join the Bike League in the Step It Up Challenge. It’s a two-week-long walking challenge, from October 13–26, to encourage Americans to increase their daily steps and jump start healthy habits.
Read More →Thanks to everyone who filled out our surveys on what the League’s federal policy priorities should be. We learned a lot! I really appreciate the thoughtful and insightful comments shared. The results of the surveys are included in the slideshow below.
Read More →Bike lights save lives. League board member Jay Ferm of Bicycle Friendly Business Planet Bike shares tips for getting more lights on bikes in your community.
Read More →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?
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