Welcome to the Alliance's weekly roundup of state & local biking & walking advocacy news. Every week, we crawl the blogs of our member organizations and bring you the most interesting tidbits.  

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HAPPY BIKE TO WORK DAY! 

It's not the same day all around the country — California advocates celebrated last week, while communities in colder climates tend to wait until June — but today marks National Bike to Work Day. It was a rainy morning in Washington, DC, complete with a flash flood warning that sent smartphones buzzing at 7 AM. Fearless commuters nevertheless donned their rain gear and pedaled through the wet. This communications director had a great time selling memberships for WABA all morning. The volunteer who sold the most memberships per capita gets a free registration to the WABA ride of his or her choosing! Fingers crossed. 

WABA organized 18 commuter convoys and helped supporters prepare for a rainy commute. 

DC got soaked, but Philly advocates postponed BTWD until Monday.  

Transportation Alternatives pulled together a handy Bike to Work Day (and Night) Guide for the big day (and night). Notable: TA is organizing the second annual Bike Home From Work party. It looks awesome. 

Employees from Connecticut businesses and public offices pledged to bike to work.

The Bicycle Coalition of Maine planned a blow-out event in Portland. 

PROGRAMMING

Active Trans has a cool new bike education program: advocates lend a 20-foot trailer, 30 single-speed children’s bicycles, helmets, and bike maintenance tools to a community, free of charge, for a year.

MassBike has partnered with the city of Cambridge to offer urban biking classes to recent immigrants. 

The biker won in the Wisconsin Bike Fed's 2014 Commuter Challenge.

Looks like the Houston CycloFemme ride was a lot of fun. 

THE BIG PICTURE

New data show that 1 out of 5 of Chicago's bicycle crashes occur when someone opens a car doors in the path of a person biking.

Cascade ED Elizabeth Kiker writes about her motivation to work towards zero deaths from her dad's hospital room. Sending your dad warm wishes for a strong recovery, Elizabeth. 

After a 38-year-old Philadelphia man was killed on his bike, advocates are pushing for Vision Zero in Philly.

Bicycling is now the official state sport of Delaware, thanks to this crew of elementary school advocates. 

Keep reading after the jump.  

INFRASTRUCTURE NEWS

Transportation 2030, a new ballot measure in San Francisco, would propose 65 miles of new bikeways. 

Estero Boulevard in Fort Meyers Beach will soon see much-needed bike and pedestrian improvements. 

The Connecticut DOT has proposed two plans to restore a bike/ped path in Hartford. 

Kansas City advocates push for the Turkey Creek Trail. 

Rubber curbs will soon line protected bike lanes in DC.

ADVOCACY AVENUE

Pennsylvania advocates teamed up to survey Democratic governor candidates about biking and walking in advance of the state's primary. First up: Katie McGinty. 

Advocates blog about the newest round of Bicycle Friendly Communites:

• Washington Bikes congratulates Sequim for reaching Bronze status.
• Georgia Bikes is pleased that Milledgeville won bronze, too. 
• Bike Lafayette celebrates after Lafayette snags an honorable mention. 
• Bike Walk Connecticut is excited for Bronze-winners Farmington and West Hartford. 
• Bike Pittsburgh was glad to see that Pittsburgh has been renewed at the Bronze level. 

TRAILER

Biking to work has increased 60 percent over the last decade.