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Bicycle Friendly America

The Story Behind A Bicycle Friendly America: Houston

By Raven Wells | January 24, 2023

Advocates and city leaders in Houston have built stand-out bicycling efforts, despite Houston’s reputation as a car-centric city.

City of Reno Adaptive Piloting An Adaptive Cycling Center This Summer

By Raven Wells | January 11, 2023

The City of Reno Adaptive shares the city’s progress in improving accessibility for cycling through its pilot Adaptive Cycling Center program.

Webinar Replay: Encouraging And Measuring Bicycle Use In A Changing Landscape

By Raven Wells | December 22, 2022

Watch a replay of our webinar with the folks of Dero’s ZAP program for ideas on how to manage and grow your bike commuter program.

More than 500 Cities and Towns Across America Are League-Certified Bicycle Friendly Communities

By Raven Wells | December 14, 2022

Today, the League of American Bicyclists honors 32 cities and towns with a Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) award.

37 Schools Recognized As Bicycle Friendly Universities

By Raven Wells | November 9, 2022

Today, the League is proud to honor 37 institutes of higher education in its 2022 round of Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) awards.

Webinar Recap: Lessons from the 2022 Bikes Count Data Competition Winners

By Raven Wells | October 27, 2022

The League co-hosted a webinar with data collection experts from our partners at Eco-Counter to share the results of our 2022 ‘Bikes Count’ Data Competition.

Equity & Accessibility Updates to the Bicycle Friendly Community Public Survey

By Amelia Neptune | October 24, 2022

We’re now able to offer BFC applicants a Spanish-language version of the BFC Public Survey to distribute in their community.

The Story Behind A BFA: Escuela Key Elementary School

By Raven Wells | October 20, 2022

Meet Bicycle Friendly Business Escuela Key Elementary, a dual English/Spanish immersion school for grades K-5 located in Arlington, Virginia.

The BFC Program Public Input Survey Goes (Even More) Public

By Amelia Neptune | October 13, 2022

We’re opening up our Bicycle Friendly Community Public Survey to include more than just communities that applied for awards!

Making Riding One of the Basic Pillars of Education

By Raven Wells | October 12, 2022

What’s it going to take to get more children and youth on bikes? Here are just five ideas for communities and schools to broaden youth bike education.