Recent Streetsblog USA posts about League of American Bicyclists

Talking Headways Podcast: Live (Well, Taped) From the National Bike Summit

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 6, 2014 | No Comments

This week, more than 700 bicycling advocates converged in Washington — despite a snowstorm that closed down the federal government on Monday cancelled thousands of flights — to learn from each other and compare notes from the past year. Tuesday, as the summit wound down and participants started gearing up for Wednesday’s Lobby Day on Capitol […]

National Bike Summit 2014: United Spokes

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Mar 6, 2014 | No Comments

Usually I limit conference wrap-up videos to right around four minutes in length. But there were so many great (and funny!) moments at this year’s National Bike Summit, it was important to pack in all of the coverage we could grab. So sit back and enjoy many of the faces and fun that made this […]

Sec. Foxx: Bicycle Infrastructure Can Be a “Ladder of Opportunity”

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 5, 2014 | No Comments

This morning, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx’s blog post is all about bicycling. He opens by touting the complete streets policy he helped implement in Charlotte (it passed before he was mayor) and the city’s bike-share system — the largest in the Southeast. His post follows on his speech yesterday to the National Bike Summit, which […]

Suburbs Take Center Stage Among Bicycle Friendly Communities

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 17, 2013 | 1 Comment

Where are the newest Bicycle Friendly Communities? Many of them are in the ‘burbs. As we mentioned a few days ago, more suburban-style communities received the League of American Bicyclists’ BFC honor this week. That’s a shift from previous years. “The national boom in biking has officially found a pedal-hold in a previously unlikely place: the […]

Winning a Campaign for Better Walking and Biking at the Ballot Box

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 19, 2013 | No Comments

While transit groups have been campaigning for, and winning, ballot measures for years, walking and biking advocacy groups are newer to the ballot referendum game. But as demand for safer streets grows in cities around the country, more and more active transportation groups are seeking voter support for special funding measures. Living Streets Alliance in […]

Old Solutions: U.S. DOT’s Proposed Strategic Plan Falls Short

By Andy Clarke | Sep 6, 2013 | 4 Comments

Andy Clarke is the president of the League of American Bicyclists. This article originally appeared on the League’s blog. On Tuesday, August 27th the U.S. Department of Transportation released a draft strategic plan for public comment. The 94-page document lays out how the U.S. Department of Transportation proposes to manage our transportation system for the […]

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