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Tulsa Advocates: Fix Our Streets!

By bikeleague | March 26, 2013

Cross-posted from the Advocacy Advance blog At 197 square miles, the city of Tulsa is larger than San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C. and Miami combined. There are enough lane miles…

Women’s Forum Recap: Adonia Lugo on Bike Justice and “Human Infrastructure”

By bikeleague | March 25, 2013

As a bicycle commuter, Adonia Lugo noticed a clear shift in cycling when she moved from Portland to Los Angeles in 2007. For the innovative scholar, that distinction led to…

Kickstarting Bicycle History

By bikeleague | March 25, 2013

All of a sudden, history seems to be the “in” thing. First, there was the glorious return of the winged wheel to the League’s logo. Then there were several requests…

Women’s (Bike) History: Mia Birk

By bikeleague | March 25, 2013

Guest post by Fionnoula Quinn, civil engineer at Alta Planning + Design and board member for Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling Mia Birk fell in love with bicycling while attending…

Women’s (Bike) History Month: Barbara McCann

By bikeleague | March 22, 2013

Guest post by Stefanie Seskin, Deputy Director of the National Complete Streets Coalition Complete Streets. The phrase feels so natural and obvious now, almost as though it appeared in our vocabulary…

Women’s Forum Recap: Megan Odett on Empowering Moms to Ride

By bikeleague | March 22, 2013

When she got pregnant and had her first child, Megan Odett knew her life would never be the same: “I thought I lost everything I liked about the person I…

Women’s (Bike) History Month: Deb Hubsmith

By bikeleague | March 21, 2013

Guest post by Margo Pedroso, Deputy Director, Safe Routes to School National Partnership As the founder and director of the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, Deb Hubsmith has made it…

Women’s (Bike) History: 3 Days, 5 Women, 250 Miles

By bikeleague | March 20, 2013

Guest post by Marya McQuirter  Years ago while working on her dissertation on the social history of blacks in D.C. during the first half of the 20th century, McQuirter came…

Women’s Forum Recap: Jenna Burton on Creating Black Bike Culture

By bikeleague | March 20, 2013

Veronica Davis couldn’t have put it better: “A lot of times we try to make women this monolithic group — but we’re not.” From the Fender Bender LGBT crew out of…

How the Challenge Can Help your Business or Advocacy Organization

By Alison Dewey | March 20, 2013

We’re less than two months away from the official start of the 2013 National Bike Challenge and we want you to be as prepared as possible. To get you geared…