Ride Boldly!

Speakers:

Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Governor Jack Markell (D-DE)
Peter Rogoff, Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration
Peter Birch and Shannon Guyman, Google

League of American Bicyclists Director Andy Clarke kicked off the proceedings bright and early at 8 AM, clearly freshly caffeinated and excited by having over 700 bicycle advocates and friends of the cycling movement in the house [...]

Today, at the National Bicycle Summit, Google was on-hand for the opening session to launch their newest Maps enhancement: Bike routes!
Peter Birch, Product Manager for Google Earth, was present to introduce the new features. Google Maps for Bicycling has routes and information for 150 US cities, including on-street routes and bicycle trails. Shannon Guyman, another [...]

As part of the opening of the National Bicycle Summit, the Bikes Belong Coalition introduced their new advocacy campaign: People for Bikes. The web site is live at http://peopleforbikes.org, and operates on the principle that there are 250,000 bicycle advocates, but 50 million cyclists.

The campaign aims to link the two.
Much of it was developed by [...]

Some time back, I discussed Minnesota Statute 169.06, which allows a motorcycle to stop completely at a red light, but to move on red if the light does not change for an ‘unreasonable’ amount of time and passage is safe. At that time, I said that I knew many bicyclists who used that statute, although [...]

Been pretty busy lately, but as the (first) thaw gets underway, there are goings on here in the tundra and elsewhere.

The Winona Bridge, about which I have written a billion times following its brief closure in Summer 2008, is now scheduled for ‘rehabilitation’ in 2014. Everyone gets to take their chances on this fracture-critical structure [...]

The St. Paul Grand Round is probably one of the best-known and best-mapped routes in St. Paul. Pieces of it show up in many routes through St. Paul, including several in the maps area of Ride Boldly!
As such, it’s always nice to see new rest stop opportunities open up along the route. Yesterday, near Raymond [...]