Features

Bike to Work Week
(05.12.08) Millions of Americans are going to get on their bikes and ride to work this week! Click here for bicycling facts and figures. Click here for Bike to Work tips.

Complete Streets Bill Now in House and Senate
(05.05.08) Representative Doris Matsui (D-CA) took an important step on Thursday, May 1 for safer, better designed streets by introducing the Safe and Complete Streets Act of 2008 (HR 5951) into the U.S. House. Click here to read more.

League Announces the Latest Bicycle Friendly Community Designations
(05.01.08) Today, eleven communities were honored with the League of American Bicyclists prestigious Bicycle Friendly Community designation and eleven communities renewed their designation. Click here to read more.

League Names Portland, Ore. a "Platinum" Level Bicycle Friendly Community
(04.29.08) The League of American Bicyclists congratulates Portland, Ore. on achieving platinum Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) status – Portland is the first large city in the United States to gain the designation and joins Davis, Calif as the only other platinum BFC in the country. Click here to read more. Also, click here to hear more on Portland's Platinum Award from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Join the League at our 2008 Rally (03.14.08) The League has chosen the Maine Bike Rally as the 2008 National Bike Rally. This three-day event features more than 30 rides to choose from, off-road and on-road, some as short as five miles, others 100 miles long. To register click here.

Bike to Work Day/Ride of Silence (02.06.08) This year, Bike to Work day is May 16. Tell us about your planned celebration! And don't forget to memorialize fallen cyclists one week later, on a Ride of Silence, held nationwide on May 21.

Gas prices are heading inexorably towards $4 a gallon. The impacts of climate change are more visible, and more obvious, every day. The massive economic costs – and very real personal impacts – of physical inactivity, obesity, congestion, and traffic crashes are starting to be tallied and the statistics are alarming. Click here to learn how you can help the League.

Advocacy

The energy tax credits have been reintroduced in H.R. 5351, (Section 221). H.R. 5351 passed in the House and is awaiting action in the Senate Finance Committee.

Click to see John Pucher, of Rutgers University, inspiring cycling-related publications.

The Congressional Bike Caucus has its own site!