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OK, BACK TO WORK

Many advocates (Alliance staff included) are settling back into work after spending a week in Laurel Highlands and Pittsburgh for the Leadership Retreat, Pro Walk / Pro Bike / Pro Place, and Future Bike. Here's a sampling of advocates' reflections on these big events. 

Brent of Georgia Bikes: "If you volunteer or work for a bicycle advocacy organization, you need to attend the next Leadership Retreat!" 

Cynthia from Bike East Bay: The Leadership Retreat's unconference session provided "A lot of great take-aways for our upcoming Strategic Planning summit in January." 

Ron of Bike Florida: "For more than half a century, the nation’s main transportation priority has been to make America safe for the automobile," but "the good news to come out of Pro Bike Pro Walk Pro Place" is that "Departments of Transportation are shifting priorities to make streets and roads safe for walkers and cyclists."

Dave of the Wisconsin Bike Fed: "At the Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference in Pittsburgh last week I heard a compelling argument to forget about LOS in most urban environments altogether. After all, a city is not a place for cars to move efficiently. And if you make it that you’ve almost certainly lost all the things that make your city a good place to be. You’ve destroyed your city in order to save it."

Dave was also glad to learn about Secretary Foxx's new bicyclist and pedestrian safety initiative. 

Pittsburgh advocates were pretty darn proud to be able to show off their city to over 1,000 leaders in the biking and walking space. They also had a great time at Future Bike. 

Living Streets Alliance really likes the idea of #BuildItForIsabella, PeopleForBikes' new campaign to encourage engineers and planners to think about what type of infrastructure would be suitable for a 12-year-old rider – and for her mom's peace of mind. Here is PeopleForBikes' blog post introducing Isabella as a new "north star" for bikeway design. 

Barb of Washington Bikes reflecting on a week of conversations about equity: "I cannot do a really good job of speaking for unless I speak with, work with, listen to."

Dave of California Bicycle Coalition: "It’s refreshing to see the movement grow up and get sophisticated!"

INFRASTRUCTURE INLET

Delaware advocates push for the state's first ever (!) protected bike lane. 

Billings, MT gets a new painted bike lane on Lewis Avenue and a new trail. 

A Complete Streets treatment is on hold in Philadelphia thanks to the objections of one councilmember. 

New bright green paint on San Francisco's Embarcadero! 

Source: SFBC / SFMTA

BIG PICTURE BOULEVARD

Advocacy Advance, our collaboration with the League of American Bicyclists, will award three $10,000 grants for big ideas to fund biking and walking. 

Jared Kolb, executive director of Cycle Toronto, shares his big ideas for better accommodating cyclists in the city. 

An interview with the Park Slope author of Josie and the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade. 

A new report calls Chicago's transit "depressing." Ouch. 

New American Communities Survey numbers show that biking has doubled in DC and NYC. Here's the League's breakdown of biking stats in the United States' 70 largest countries.  

The results are in from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition's member survey. 

Source: SFBC

ADVOCACY AVENUE

Advocates in California's East Bay are already hard at work on ballot measure BB to win $1 billion for bike and pedestrian projects. 

A bike plan in Overland Park, Kansas City, MO is moving forward. 

Atlanta advocates rally around bike projects in the city's proposed infrastructure bond. 

What's happening on North Williams in Portland? IT'S CHAOS. But help is on the way. 

Rhode Island advocates will erect a temporary protected bike lane for PARK(ing) Day in Providence. 

These new lawn signs from Bike Cleveland remind drivers to watch for bikes. 

LEGISLATION LANE

Texans! The state DOT is trying to take away your biking and walking funding! 

Last week, the Washington Area Bicyclist Association revealed a new plan to exempt bicyclists from contributory negligence standards. Here are their answers to your ten biggest questions about contributory negligence.

Thirteen Connecticut towns received a total of $5 million in state grants to improve walkability in downtowns. 

Six pedestrian projects, one bikeshare project, and zero bike infrastructure projects received regional mutlimodal funding in the Philadelphia area.

ELECTION ESPLANADE

Infographic: how 501(c)(3) and (4) biking and walking organizations can participate in elections. 

Connecticut gubernatorial candidates talked about transportation at a candidate forum, but forgot about bicycling and walking. 

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition has released their 2014 endorsements! As a 501(c)(3), we can't link to them... but maybe Google knows where they are. 

PROGRAMMING PROMENADE

It's back to school season, so many advocacy organizations are ramping up their Safe Routes to School programs for the year. Bicycle Colorado will expand its SRTS program this year to include a "train the trainer" program. 

Albany Strollers & Rollers held another successful stroll. 

The Wisconsin Bike Fed holds women-only fix a flat classes. 

GET A JOB

Reno Bike Project is hiring an AmeriCorps VISTA position. 

PeopleForBikes is hiring an equity writer. 

The state and local biking and walking advocacy movement is growing. Check out the Alliance for Biking & Walking job board for listings all over North America.

TRAILER

This video will brighten your day: dude high-fives people hailing taxis in New York City.