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Two Weeks Left in Our Spring Pledge Drive — This Week: Win a Vaya Bag
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogging for a quick pep talk. Thanks to our generous and supportive readers, Streetsblog and Streetfilms are almost halfway to our goal of raising $30,000 by June 1. We’ve got two weeks left to raise $17,000 — help us reach that target so we can keep making the case for designing cities around […]
Bikes and Transit Keep Racking Up Ballot Wins
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In one U.S. city after another, voters keep making their opinions clear.
Green Lane Project Picks Six New Cities to Make Big Progress on Bikeways
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More than 100 cities applied for the second round of the Green Lane Project, the program that helps cities build better bike infrastructure, including protected lanes. People for Bikes, which runs the program, announced its selections for round two today: Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, and Seattle. “The selected cities have ambitious goals and a vision for […]
SF Bicycle Coalition Welcomes Tyler Frisbee as New Policy Director
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Tyler Frisbee is the SF Bicycle Coalition’s new policy director, filling the shoes of Deputy Director Kit Hodge. Hodge left SFBC last month to start a company that will lease family-friendly cargo bikes. “We’re honored to have her national expertise to our local issues,” the SFBC wrote in a blog post: For the last five […]
A Look at Pittsburgh’s Bike Parking and Presumptive New Mayor
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The future looks bright for Pittsburgh for 2014. As they prepare to host the Pro Walk Pro Bike Pro Place conference next September, last week Project for Public Spaces held a one-day summit in advance of next year’s big event. One thing Pittsburgh is doing is creating some innovative and fun bike parking facilities. As […]
Industry Leaders Don’t Want to Miss Out on NYC Bike-Share
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Interest in New York City’s bike-sharing plans seems to be running high in the industry, if today’s “pre-proposal conference” is any indication. A packed room that included many of the major players in the bike-sharing industry gathered at NYC DOT headquarters to get the scoop on what New York, potentially the nation’s largest bike-sharing market, […]