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McCain Takes Aim At Airport Bicycle Parking

Legislation often has weird clauses, but this one is super-weird. The most excellent StreetsBlog reports that Senator John McCain (R-AZ) inserted a stipulation in the federal aviation reauthorization (SB 223) that could bar airports from using passenger facility charges for bike parking facilities if it stays in the bill and the bill is passed.

The League [...]

February 9th, 2011 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle facilities, bicycle laws, bicyclists, encouragement, europe, federal funds, jerks, league of american bicyclists, legislation, netherlands, oregon, politics, share the road, transportation options, urban planning | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Dividends of the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program

In the upcoming May issue of Bicycling, Mnneapolis is to be named their top city for cycling – beating out perennial favorite Portland (OR). This was somewhat inevitable editorially, as eventually they needed to shake up the list, and it’s easy to give Minneapolis a few bonus points for the fact that our weather is more [...]

March 28th, 2010 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle commuting, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, encouragement, engineering, environmentalism, evaluation, federal funds, league of american bicyclists, minneapolis, minnesota, oregon, politics, road construction, roadway design, share the road | One comment - (Comments are closed)

National Bike Summit Opening Session

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 at [...]

March 10th, 2010 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle commuting, bicycle maps, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, bike events, bike rides, biking with kids, education, encouragement, engineering, environmentalism, federal funds, league of american bicyclists, legislation, oregon, politics, road construction, roadway design, roadway use, share the road | Comments are closed

Minneapolis Cycle-Commuting

The US Census Bureau reports Minneapolis as the #2 city for bike commuters, behind notoriously-friendly Portland, Oregon.

I think the next big area for inquiry will be how many months a year this cycle-commuting core put their buns in the saddle… not that failure to ride in January is a bad thing, ’round these [...]

July 2nd, 2007 | Category: bicycle commuting, bicyclists, encouragement, evaluation, minneapolis, minnesota, oregon, share the road, winter cycling | Comments are closed
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