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September 23, 2016by League StaffBike 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.
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September 15, 2016by Ken McLeodToday 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.
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September 6, 2016by League StaffThe 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.
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August 29, 2016by Caron WhitakerOn 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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August 26, 2016by Keya Chaterjee
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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August 19, 2016by Tony Dutzik
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. -
August 3, 2016by Caron WhitakerThis 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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July 29, 2016by Ken McLeodDuring 16 years of public service to the City of Palo Alto, Kathy Durham created one of the most successful Safe Routes to School programs in the nation.
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July 22, 2016by Vanessa RothThe Gail and Jim Spann Educator of the Year Award, named for two of the League’s education champions and benefactors, is the League’s highest bicycling education honor.
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July 15, 2016by Caron WhitakerPresenting Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) the Legislator of the Year award at the 2016 National Bike Summit & Women’s Forum was one of those classic moments of the Summit. Just as I got on stage to introduce him, the fire alarm went off.
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