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Become a Bicycle Friendly Business: Deadline June 22

By bikeleague | June 6, 2012

Here at the League, we like to practice what we preach. So a couple of weeks ago, we sat down with the scorecard for the Bicycle Friendly Business program —…

Small Decrease in Driving = Huge Decrease in Congestion

By bikeleague | June 5, 2012

Has anyone ever tried to tell you that there are too few bicyclists to reduce traffic congestion in any noticeable way? Well, new data shows that it doesn’t take large…

How Advocates Boosted Utah to #13 in 2012 State Ranking

By bikeleague | June 4, 2012

In May, we released the latest Bicycle Friendly States Ranking and, over the coming weeks, we’ll explore the building blocks of a BFS and profile some of the leading and…

Bike Month Wrap-up: Rolling out the Red Carpet

By bikeleague | June 4, 2012

Last week, we wrapped up National Bike Month 2012, closing the book on 31 days of incredible energy and creativity from advocates and officials across the country to boost bicycling…

New Report: Transportation Enhancements Touch Every Congressional District

By bikeleague | June 1, 2012

If you’ve ridden on a bicycle trail or a major stand-alone bicycling project, the chances are good that you have taken advantage of a product of the federal funding program…

Green Lane Project Kicks Off in Chicago

By bikeleague | June 1, 2012

There’s no denying that separated facilities, like buffered bike lanes in Los Angeles, are getting more folks riding. Yesterday in Chicago, our partners at Bikes Belong officially launched their new…

Women on a Roll… and on the cover of American Bicyclist!

By bikeleague | June 1, 2012

One of the many benefits of League membership is a subscription to our magazine, American Bicyclist. The latest issue includes features on the rise of women in the bicycle movement,…

National Organizations Urge Support for Cardin-Cochran Agreement

By bikeleague | May 31, 2012

More than 70 national organizations united today to urge members of Congress to preserve control over biking and walking projects in the federal transportation bill. In a new sign-on letter…

Bike Advocacy Roundup: Using State Rankings and Finding Additional Funding

By bikeleague | May 31, 2012

By Matt Wempe Last week saw the release of the 2012 Bicycle Friendly State rankings and there was a lot of media coverage of the results. We take this as…

Why I Ride #31: Simple Common Sense

By bikeleague | May 31, 2012

(Andy Clarke is the president of the League of American Bicyclists.) Andy Clarke riding a stage of the Tour de France Growing up in England I followed a similar path…