League of American Bicyclists
Moving People or Moving Vehicles: How Should We Grade America’s Streets?
Darren Flusche is the policy director of the League of American Bicyclists.
November 27, 2012
The National Women’s Bicycling Summit: This Is Not a Bike
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:
September 18, 2012
Top 10 Reasons Sen. Boxer Must Keep Her Word on Bike/Ped Programs
This post originally appeared on www.bikeleague.org. The author is the president of the League of American Bicyclists.
June 22, 2012
National Bike Challenge Hopes to Log 10 Million Miles During Bike Month
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.
May 2, 2012
With a Big Crowd and Bipartisan Support, Bike Summit Gets Rolling
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 said that next year the LAB's sights are set on the much larger Walter E. Washington Convention Center, just two blocks away.
March 21, 2012
This Week: Road Builders and Bike Advocates Convene in the Capital
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.
March 19, 2012
Don’t Call It a Merger: America’s Big Three Bike/Ped Advocates Join Forces
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.
February 28, 2012
What’s Wrong With Telling Cyclists to Ride on the Bike Path?
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.
November 11, 2011
Strike Three: Another Senator Takes Another Swipe At Bike-Ped Funding
Last month, the Senate's notorious vote-blocker, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, tried to obstruct Senate process until they voted on his measure to take bike/ped funding out of the transportation bill. He failed.
October 27, 2011
GM to College Students: Stop Pedaling, Start Driving
Car ads that try to appeal to the desire for social status are nothing new, but here’s one that just gets it wrong: GM is trying to convince college students that driving a Buick is hipper than riding a fixie.
October 12, 2011