Today, at the National Bike Summit in Washington DC, bicycle advocates and educators present will be calling on members of Congress to urge them to adopt fair, non-partisan transportation bills and to preserve biking/walking as supported infrastructure options on the federal level. BikeMN is leading the Minnesota delegation, and has arranged legislative visits for all of [...]
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March 22nd, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle alliance of minnesota, bicyclists, bike events, encouragement, enforcement, evaluation, federal funds, league of american bicyclists, legislation, minnesota, politics, roadway design, roadway use, share the road, transportation options | Comments are closed
As part of this year’s National Bike Summit, there was an afternoon Women’s Cycling Forum. The promotional description was quasi-promising: Women still cycle at much lower rates than men in the United States — making up just 24 percent of bike trips in 2009. But that trend is shifting. We’re eager to learn from our peers, share [...] March 21st, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle commuting, bicycle retailing, bicycle routes, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike education, damn lies, encouragement, league of american bicyclists, share the road, transportation options, twitter, washington, women | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
I realize I haven’t said much about the Bike Summit here at Ride Boldly! Which, let’s get down to it: It’s been bloody nice. I’ve been working something that semi-resembles a normal job during human hours. One that requires the wearing of pants. I’ve been busy, okay? But. I provided a recap to our friends at BikeMN [...] March 17th, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle alliance of minnesota, bicycle laws, bicycle safety, bicyclists, bike events, enforcement, engineering, evaluation, legislation, minnesota, safe routes to schools, share the road, st. paul, suburbs, transportation options, urban planning | Comments are closed
I’m happy to announce that I’ve become an occasional contributor to StreetsMN, a blog devoted to discussing transportation infrastructure and planning throughout our fair state. My first contribution, Safe Routes to Schools: Getting the Message Right, talks about the challenge faced by Safe Routes in going beyond marketing the program as a health program and making [...] February 22nd, 2012 | Category: children on bikes, education, encouragement, engineering, marketing, minnesota, safe routes to schools, share the road, suburbs, transportation options, urban planning | Comments are closed
The second Minnesota Bike Summit has been scheduled for Monday, March 5, in Saint Paul. This event, hosted by BikeMN, brings together people from across the state to talk bicycling amongst themselves, then with state officials and elected representatives. New this year will be scheduled meetings with representatives, with scheduling facilitated by BikeMN — probably in response [...] February 3rd, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle alliance of minnesota, bicyclists, bike events, education, encouragement, evaluation, legislation, minnesota, politics, share the road, st. paul, transportation options, urban planning | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
Yesterday was the great debate and committee markup session for the House Transportation Bill. As expected, it was all about the posturing about priorities. Those priorities, per the chief supporters, were highways. A provision revealed in markup yesterday showed that dedicated funding for transit would also disappear. An amendment to restore enhancements and Safe Routes to Schools failed [...] February 3rd, 2012 | Category: bicycle advocacy, bicycle laws, bicyclists, common sense, election, evaluation, federal funds, legislation, pedestrian access, politics, road construction, roadway design, roadway use, safe routes to schools, share the road, taxes, transportation options, urban planning | Comments are closed
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