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June 16, 2015by Liz Murphy
Last week, we announced the latest round of Bicycle Friendly Communities. Chicago, IL is one of the 42 new and renewing communities this round, and the Silver-level community has made a lot of strides since the last application period four years ago. We caught up with Ron Burke, the executive director of the Active Transportation Alliance in Chicago, to talk about where the Windy City has... -
June 12, 2015by Liz Murphy
This week, we announced the latest round of Bicycle Friendly Communities. Louisville, KY, is one of the 42 new and renewing communities this round, and the new Silver-level community is aiming to be the best in the region. We caught up with John "Rolf" Eisinger, the city's bicycle and pedestrian coordinator, and with Chris Glasser, President of Bicycling for Louisville, to talk more about what... -
June 11, 2015by Liz Murphy
This week, we announced the latest round of Bicycle Friendly Communities. Memphis, TN, is one of the 42 new and renewing communities this round, and the new Bronze-level community is aiming to be the best in all of Tennessee. The effort has been spearheaded from many angles, including the city government and a robust advocacy group. We caught up with Kyle Wagenschutz, the city's bicycle and... -
June 10, 2015by Liz Murphy
Today the League of American Bicyclists announced 42 new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Communities (BFC). With this new round, 69 million people live in a Bicycle Friendly Community. These new awardees join a leading group of more than 350 communities in all 50 states that are improving health, safety and quality of life in cities and towns nationwide. -
June 9, 2015by Carolyn Szczepanski
Imagine: It’s the year 2020. In Fort Collins, Colorado, one in every five people travels by bike — and there are zero bicycle-related fatalities. The foundation for achieving this vision, set forth in the city’s 2014 Bicycle Master Plan, is a low-stress bicycling network: a comfortable, safe and connected system of world-class bicycle infrastructure, accessible to all residents and visitors, aged...
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June 8, 2015by Carolyn Szczepanski
I think we can all agree: Movement is essential to the human condition... Americans, especially American drivers in the Frontier, like to believe they are free to move, but I have found free and equal mobility to be a myth. Some are in charge of it. Some are excluded or even imprisoned by it. -
June 4, 2015by Carolyn Szczepanski
In 2013, the City of Richfield became the first suburb in Minnesota to be awarded the Bicycle Friendly Community designation in Minnesota. We've since been joined by our neighboring City of Edina but I'm still often asked by staff and bike advocates in other suburban cities: What are the key issues we should focus on to become a more bicycle friendly suburban community? -
June 3, 2015by Carolyn Szczepanski
Growing up, cycling all over Dublin city center on the thousand-year-old narrow streets I never imagined another life, decades later, bicycling around the northern Virginia suburbs. This isn’t to say you won’t find me ferrying teenagers around in my minivan, but when I can I use my bike instead. It’s fast and it’s cheap and just seems like a nicer way to encounter the world. But nowadays when I... -
March 27, 2015by Liz Murphy
This Friday during our weekly Twitter chat, #BikeChat, we asked the question, "What does a Bicycle Friendly Community look like to you?" Bicycle Friendly Communities come in all shapes and sizes. In one you might ride past a dairy farm, with nothing but green ahead of you, and in the next you might be stopping at a bike-specific red light within a two-way cycle track on a busy city block. We work... -
March 20, 2015by Andy Clarke
What do Portland and Boulder have in common? They are, of course, both considered among the most bike-friendly places in the United States -- including by the League. They are two of just four Platinum level communities in our Bicycle Friendly Community program. And in recent years, both communities have dropped the ball when it comes to addressing the needs of, and providing opportunities for,...
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