Add 32 new cities to the League of American Bicyclists’ list of Bicycle Friendly Communities.
The advocacy group announced the new communities Tuesday morning, noting that suburban centers are gaining traction among the 291 Bicycle Friendly Communities in 48 states.
Anacortes
In Washington state, Anacortes made the list as a bronze-level bike friendly community. The …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/15/new-bicycle-friendly-communities-named-anacortes-wa-is-among-them/
That didn’t take long.
Three state legislators from northern Georgia say they will withdraw their bill — HB 689 — that would have required bicycle registration, license plates and new rules of the road for bicyclists.
The three — Republicans Carl Rogers, Lee Hawkins, and Emory Dunahoo — from the Gainesville area made their decision …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/09/georgia-legislators-abandon-bike-registration-license-plate-bill/
Update: Oct. 9, 2013 — Legislators abandon bike registration bill
Oct. 4, 2013 — The really bad idea of requiring bicycle registration and license plates has made it into a bill submitted to the Georgia legislature.
The bill by the three Georgia lawmakers doesn’t stop with registration, however. It puts new limits on how bicyclists …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/04/bicycle-registration-license-plates-and-single-file-riding-pushed-in-georgia/
Need a little more encouragement to commute or run an errand on your bicycle?
What if you could get a 10% or 15% discount off breakfast at the local cafe or coffee shop, a free banana with your groceries or an energy bar with your purchase at a bike shop?
I stumbled across just such …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/10/01/bicycle-benefits-you-deserve-a-reward-for-riding-your-bike/
Moses Mathis worked hard for 22 years to put smiles on the faces of Fayetteville, NC, children by providing free bicycles to them at Christmas time.
(Interviewed in 2012)
Over the years, he became known as the “Bicycle Man.” Since he started the program in his Tiffany Pines neighborhood in 1990, Mathis and his team …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/29/north-carolina-trailhead-named-to-honor-bicycle-man/
In the week since a 19-year-old woman plowed into a group of bicyclists on a New Hampshire bicycle ride — killing two and injuring two others — police have charged three people in connection with the crash.
Police are investigating everyone related to the tragic case. Early on, they had been criticized for not doing …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/28/now-3-people-charged-in-connection-with-new-hampshire-bike-ride-tragedy/
More Americans than ever are saying that they commute to work by bicycle, according to recently released figures from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
Although the percentage is still low — 0.64% of all commuters in 2012 — the rate represents a 9.6% increase in just one year and a 50% increase if you go all the way back to 1990.
That 0.64% represents 864,883 bike commuters in 2012.
Policy makers, especially those in the top bicycle-commuting cities, should consider this when they appropriate money …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/26/the-top-10-cities-for-bicycle-commuting-how-70-biggest-cities-fare/
The parents of a nursing student killed by a drunken driver as she rode her bicycle home from the library at Chico State University in California wrote the following heart-felt letter.
It shows how the irresponsible actions can have far-reaching consequences.
“The body of our daughter, Kristina Chesterman, lies upstairs at Enloe Medical Center waiting to be used to help other patients in need of organ donations. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/26/parents-of-bicyclist-seek-maximum-penalty-for-drunken-driver-after-fatality-in-california/
The 19-year-old woman who drove a car into a group of bicyclists — killing two and injuring two others — as they participated in an organized bike ride on Saturday is sitting in a jail cell in New Hampshire.
Some are saying that if the police had put her in jail when they stopped her for speeding and driving without a license 8 hours before the fatal crash, then the tragedy on the coastal New Hampshire bridge never would have taken place.
Meanwhile, police made a second arrest on Wednesday that sheds more light on the tragedy. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/25/a-second-arrest-in-crash-that-killed-two-bicyclists-on-new-hampshire-bike-ride/
California became the 22nd state to require that motorists give bicycles 3 feet of clearance after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill into law on Monday.
It was the third time that a 3-foot passing bill had landed on Gov. Brown’s desk. He vetoed the earlier two measures for various reasons.
The bill was submitted …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2013/09/23/giving-3-feet-for-bicyclists-will-be-the-law-in-california-in-a-year/
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