Equity
Safe streets for everyone means more than bike lanes and sidewalks. It means that everyone is free to move on our streets, in our neighborhoods, and throughout our cities without…
To enable and empower more people across the country with bike skills and education, the League is pleased to now offer its Smart Cycling Manual in Spanish.
The organization Bike & Build is inspiring young adults to engage in service-oriented cycling trips to improve the quality of life for thousands of Americans. Read the encouraging journey of one of Bike & Build’s members.
A new bikesharing system, mBike, recently launched in a College Park, MD, including five accessible bikes.
In Cudahy, Calif., more than 90% of the population is Latino and 30% live below the poverty line. In addition to rent-controlled housing and accountable government, one way Councilmember Baru Sanchez wants to uplift his community is through better biking. And he’s working with the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition to authentically engage his fellow residents in that effort.
During the winter of 2014, a group of five deaf individuals got together to discuss cycling in the city of Chicago — and what the cycling community was lacking. Despite so many local bike advocacy groups supporting local cycling they felt a lack of support for deaf individuals that wanted to get involved. The Deaf Velo Alliance was born.
The seaside city of Portland, Maine has become home to thousands of immigrants from all over the world. Many come to the United States on temporary visas and then seek asylum — with some asylum seekers living in shelters, and most scraping by on very little money. Two years ago, the Bicycle Coalition of Maine began receiving requests to donate bikes left over from its annual swap to asylum seekers and other so-called “New Mainers.”
Equitable transportation is more than a buzzword. The effort to make transportation accessible and safe for Americans from all socioeconomic and racial backgrounds has taken root in grassroots advocacy organizations, national foundations and even in the U.S. Congress. The benefits of transportation investments are not distributed equally among communities, as some social groups have not reaped the rewards of developed transportation infrastructure. While the discussion of transportation equity has largely focused on accessibility to transit and the provision of auto-dominated infrastructure, a growing number of advocates
The National Brotherhood of Cyclists (NBC) 5th annual national conference is coming up: From July 15-19 advocates from across the country will travel to Minneapolis, MN, to discuss “Equity in Motion.” The League is a sponsoring organization for the fifth annual event. We caught up with organizer and vice president of the NBC, Anthony Taylor, to discuss what’s on the docket for the upcoming national summit and what attendees can expect. Learn more about and register for the event at www.thenbc.bike.
In February, I was invited to attend both the World Bicycle Forum in Medellin, Colombia, and the League’s National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. As the only African represented at both these forums, it was with great curiosity that I presented to and gleaned knowledge from those who have navigated the advocacy space for much longer than me. Initially almost every workshop session and talk in Medellin bore reference to Copenhagen. From gender split to trip generation percentages — with the requisite baguette and basket imagery, of course! — it was always there. Until a question from the audience changed everything. “Can we please talk about our own country and let Copenhagen be?” A nervous bundle of applause cascaded into a unanimous agreement from the 2,000 strong auditorium of advocates, activists and all those positioned somewhere in between. Thinking had shifted. It was a coming out of sorts: a great day for change makers in the Global South.