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BIKE, WALK, GIVE
As shopping ramps up for the holiday season, biking and walking advocates have a few ideas for great gifts for the walking and biking fans in your life. Santa, take note.
A gift to MassBike helps kids throughout Massachusetts get on their bikes.
A gift to Bike Walk Connecticut is a gift to future biking and walking throughout the state.
Seattle's Cascade Bicycle Club shares their staff's wish list for the holidays. Item #1: a new Cascade Season Pass, which includes a Cascade jersey, a one-year membership, and entry into 10 of the Club's major rides.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recommends giving the gift of a Bike Pittsburgh membership.
Hey Santa! Maybe you should load some cargo bikes onto your sleigh?
Transportation Alternatives offers up warm weather wardrobe tips from readers, complete with online shopping links. The New York Bicycling Coalition has some suggestions, too.
When you give to Community Cycling Center in Portland, OR, you can help a child get their first bike. Last week, 300 kids received bikes at the Community Cycling Center's 19th annual Holiday Bike Drive.
INFRASTRUCTURE INLET
Advocates have some big ideas about a cycletrack for an arterial redesign in Brookline, MA.
Chicago's Active Transportation Alliance pushes for a physical separation between people on bikes and people on foot on the Lakefront Trail.
Planners have offered three alternative design options to calm El Camino Real in Menlo Park, CA.
Congrats to Oakland advocates for winning the city's first protected bike lanes on Telegraph Avenue!
Denver's commuter rail has cool new bike racks.
Could there be a Commonwealth Avenue cycletrack in Boston's future?
BIG PICTURE BOULEVARD
Happy 5th birthday, Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition!
A new large-scale study shows that Safe Routes to School programs are associated with increased walking and biking rates.
Jennifer Allen has been promoted to Director of Strategic Initiatives at Trailnet. Congratulations, Jennifer!
Advocates weigh in on whether biking & walking organizations should still send print newsletters. (Survey says: yes.)
Minneapolis' Midtown Greenway won a 2014 Great Places Award from the Sensible Land Use Coalition. Congrats, y'all!
Congrats to BikeTexas and TxDOT for winning a Telly Award for a past bicycle safety video.
Bike Austin's membership numbers have lagged following a merger with the Austin Cycling Association. Bike Austin is appealing to former ACA members to return to the newly strengthened organization.
Kevin from the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition reflects on how the community came together around a ghost bike for Jessica Hanson.
Road rage is as old as driving, and might be caused by the very act of being inside a car.
What is a road diet, anyway? The New York Bicycling Coalition has an explainer.
The origin story of why roads were built. (Hint: they weren't originally constructed for cars.)
ADVOCACY AVENUE
Advocacy Advance gave Rapid Response grants to a number of organizations that ran ballot measure campaigns to finance active transportation. Here's how the campaigns turned out.
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia released a new report that showcases the need for a Vision Zero policy.
Bike San Diego urges the board of their regional transportation agency to make the 2015 regional transportation plan more bike-friendly. A draft plan was rejected by a California appeals court for failing to meet state greenhouse gas emission reduction goals.
A new Pittsburgh bike map showcases connections around the airport.
After years of advocacy, Pennsylvania advocates are thrilled that PennDOT has posted a job listing for a bike/ped coordinator. (Job listing here.)
New Livability Fact Sheets from AARP help illustrate what makes a great place for people of all ages.
Thanks in large part to pushes from advocates, Caltrans, California's Department of Transportation, is taking steps to incorporate biking and walking into its mission.
LEGISLATION LANE
A new report from Advocacy Advance presents research on how communities are paying for maintenance on trails, bike lanes, and sidewalks.
Washington Bikes releases their legislative agenda for 2015. Among their priorities: investments for better biking & walking, securing a study on the impact of bicycle tourism statewide, and strengthening distracted driving laws.
Minneapolis' City Council approved what advocates are calling the best-ever bike/walk budget! It includes $750,000 for protected bikeways and city support for 8 Open Streets events in 2015.
New Yorkers for Active Transportation, a coalition of groups in New York state, push for adequate biking and walking resources in the state's 4-year Capital Plan.
PROGRAMMING PROMENADE
The Washington Area Bicyclist Association will hold a family biking town hall.
Cascade showcases bike-friendly hotels in Seattle.
So the Santa Rampage looks like a lot of fun.
GET A JOB
Bike Austin is hiring an Executive Director.
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia is hiring a Policy Coordinator.
Bike Cleveland is hiring a Communications and Membership Manager.
The Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is hiring a Director.
Bicycle Colorado is hiring a Membership Manager.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is hiring a statewide bicycle and pedestrian coordinator.
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia seeks a graphic desiger.
The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is hiring a Bicycle Advocacy Intern.
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance is hiring an Alice Awards Procurement Officer, a part-time paid internship.
The League of Michigan Bicyclists is hiring 15 short-term consultants to rep Bikesafetyquiz.com.
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 communications director is unashamed about how much she laughed at this very long but very worthwhile joke about transportation infrastructure.
