Recent Streetsblog USA posts about League of American Bicyclists

Top 10 Reasons Sen. Boxer Must Keep Her Word on Bike/Ped Programs

By Andy Clarke | Jun 22, 2012 | 3 Comments

This post originally appeared on www.bikeleague.org. The author is the president of the League of American Bicyclists. For the past 20 years, local elected officials have been given rare access to state transportation funds through a handful of programs administered by state Departments of Transportation as grant programs. These also happen to be the primary […]

National Bike Challenge Hopes to Log 10 Million Miles During Bike Month

By Angie Schmitt | May 2, 2012 | 1 Comment

Strap on your helmet. Grease up your chain. Yesterday was the official start of the National Bike Challenge, a new nationwide feature of Bike Month, sponsored by the country’s leading bike organizations. Through August, cyclists from around the country will be competing to log the most miles in an online tracking system. The challenge is […]

With a Big Crowd and Bipartisan Support, Bike Summit Gets Rolling

By Ben Goldman | Mar 21, 2012 | 1 Comment

The League of American Bicyclists welcomed a record crowd to the 2012 National Bike Summit this morning. Over 800 attendees filled the basement of the Grand Hyatt Metro Center in Washington to hear remarks from federal lawmakers and officials about the state of bike advocacy in America — so large a crowd that president Andy Clarke […]

This Week: Road Builders and Bike Advocates Convene in the Capital

By Ben Goldman | Mar 19, 2012 | 4 Comments

The House of Representatives is back in town, and its members still don’t have a transportation bill. In fact, they probably won’t have one for weeks. But two groups holding conferences in Washington this week would be more than happy to help them out in the meantime. First, the League of American Bicyclists kicks off […]

Don’t Call It a Merger: America’s Big Three Bike/Ped Advocates Join Forces

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 28, 2012 | 12 Comments

Last week, three leading organizations advocating for biking and walking issued a communiqué [PDF] about their intention to unify. According to the plan, hashed out two weeks ago at a top-level meeting in San Diego, the League of American Bicyclists, the Alliance for Biking & Walking, and Bikes Belong will become one organization, with one board of directors. Streetsblog […]

What’s Wrong With Telling Cyclists to Ride on the Bike Path?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 11, 2011 | 11 Comments

With all due respect to my vehicular-cyclist friends, I’m a big fan of separate facilities for bikes. They keep bicyclists safer and encourage more people to ride, and I know I make a lot fewer risky moves when I’m riding in a lane built for my two wheels and not a two-ton, 200-horsepower steel box. […]

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