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Bikes Belong Awards $100,000 in Green Lane Project Grants

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In 2012, Bikes Belong launched an innovative new program: the Green Lane Project. Designed to help six focus cities build a network of protected bike lanes and related bicycle facilities, this initiative has spurred greater commitment and investment from the participating communities while inspiring others to follow their lead. As part of our commitment, we dedicated $100,000 of our grant funding to green lane projects. These four grants will help the applicant cities build more safe, stress-free places for their [...]
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Research blog: A new focus on the interested but concerned

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Sit in on any conversation in the Bikes Belong office these days, and you’ll likely hear three words: interested but concerned. Interested but concerned is a term for the 60% or so of Americans who don’t currently bicycle for transportation but would—if conditions were better. The creation of Portland, Oregon planner Roger Geller, interested but concerned is one of his four classifications for American adults that describes their participation and attitudes about riding a bike for transportation. It’s also the [...]
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Top bike advocate Jenn Dice to join Bikes Belong staff in 2013

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After more than a decade leading the Government Affairs department of the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA), Jenn Dice will join the staff of Bikes Belong in February 2013 as Vice President of Government Relations. Dice will direct a new Bikes Belong project, the Bohm Strategy Center, which will create a strategic repository of information on bicycling businesses, key contacts, allies and supporters in all 50 states. Dice will also lead Bikes Belong’s D.C. lobbying team and government relations program. [...]
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Bike commuting continues to rise, especially in cities

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Every year, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates the share of Americans who bike to work. Although the survey only counts people as bike commuters if they ride to work the majority of days (among other restrictions), it’s the best way to track the growth of bicycling to work. The League of American Bicyclists crunched the latest survey data and found that bike commuting rose slightly (though not significantly), from 0.53% in 2010 to 0.56% in 2011. Since 2000, bike commuting [...]
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Green Lane Project moves bicycling forward

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Bikes Belong is leading the way toward the next generation of bike lanes with the Green Lane Project. The Green Lane Project, launched in late May this year, is working with Austin, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, OR, San Francisco, and Washington, DC to support each city’s development of world-class protected bicycling networks, called green lanes, during the next two years. Green lanes are safe, comfortable spaces for people on bikes on city streets. They are protected from motor vehicles by curbs, [...]
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