Recent Streetsblog USA posts about League of American Bicyclists

The National Push to Close the Cycling Gender Gap

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 19, 2013 | 21 Comments

Women have been called an “indicator species” of a bike-friendly city because they tend to pedal more in places that are safe and practical for biking. But on those counts, the United States has some work to do. In 2009, the last time good data was released, less than a quarter of bike trips in […]

Washington, Colorado, and Oregon Win Top Bike-Friendly State Honors

By Angie Schmitt | May 1, 2013 | 1 Comment

Congratulations are due to Washington, Colorado, Oregon and Minnesota; those four states took home top rankings this year in the League of American Bicyclists’ annual Bicycle Friendly States appraisal. The winners were announced this morning. Washington has held the top position for six years running. But there were a few shake-ups further down the list. […]

LaHood Announces Safety Summits to Help Shape New Bikeway Standards

By Dani Simons | Mar 5, 2013 | 2 Comments

In 2010, DOT Secretary Ray LaHood mounted a table at the National Bike Summit and proclaimed, “I’ve been all over America, and…people want alternatives. They want out of their cars, they want out of congestion, they want to live in… livable communities.” He added, to thunderous applause, “You’ve got a partner in Ray LaHood.” Shortly […]

How to Diversify Bicycle Culture in Three Easy Steps

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 4, 2013 | 25 Comments

Everything you think you know about bicycling is wrong. At the National Women’s Bicycling Forum this morning, one message came through: the underrepresentation of women and people of color in cycling isn’t simply due to safety concerns and lack of protected infrastructure, as is often surmised. It’s more complicated than that. Megan Odett, who founded Kidical Mass […]

Moving People or Moving Vehicles: How Should We Grade America’s Streets?

By Darren Flusche | Nov 27, 2012 | 7 Comments

Darren Flusche is the policy director of the League of American Bicyclists. Should the performance of this road… …be measured like this one? Under the new federal transportation bill, known as MAP-21, the performance of these two roads could be measured the same way — even though one is a bustling business district, and the other is […]

The National Women’s Bicycling Summit: This Is Not a Bike

By Brian Addison | Sep 18, 2012 | No Comments

Leah Missbach Day, co-founder of World Bicycle Relief and keynote speaker at last week’s National Women’s Bicycling Summit, in Long Beach, California, was very succinct with her main point about a bike: “This is not a bike.” The bike is a tool, she intoned; a tool that helps generate economic stability, community cohesiveness, and gender […]

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