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Every week, we roam the blogs of our member organizations and round up the most interesting tidbits. This week: Congress grapples with transportation funding, local flavor rides get rolling, and new transit projects. 

The Executive Director of the LivableStreets Alliance in Boston explains how the Alliance Leadership Retreat helped her grow her organization tenfold. The result: a stronger local advocacy presence winning campaigns to make the Boston region more walkable and bikeable. 

The Census' American Communities Survey has one question that makes it especially important - and especially tragic - to biking and walking advocates.

Every week, we roam the blogs of our member organizations and round up the most interesting tidbits. This week: advocates respond to a violently anti-bike Washington Post column, new parklets in L.A., and a library on a bicycle. 

Here's what other biking and walking advocacy organizations can learn from the Washington Area Bicyclist Association's rapid response to the Washington Post's recent damaging piece about bicyclists in DC. 

The biking and walking movement was completely different in 2007. But without the right data, we wouldn't know how far we've come. That's exactly why the Alliance tackles the Benchmarking project. 

We still have a long march ahead of us to extend rights to all people. At this year’s Alliance Leadership Retreat, I invite you to join me and other advocates as we move forward on equity and inclusion.

How are cities and towns paying for separated bicycle infrastructure? A new Advocacy Advance report shows how cities use a combination of federal, state, local, regional, and private funds for innovative facilities. 

Advocates in New York state just won a major pool of federal safety dollars to install crosswalks, sidewalks, signals, and shoulders to make streets better for walking and biking. Here's how you can do the same. 

Every week, we roam the blogs of our member organizations and round up the most interesting tidbits. This week: advocates celebrate independence, Chicago's bold plan for the future of biking, and why getting bikes on Amtrak is so darn slow.