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Great Biking Isn’t Just for Big Cities
July 10th, 2024
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Meet the Better Bike Share Partnership's New Living Lab Grantees
May 6th, 2024
The Better Bike Share Partnership, a collaboration between PeopleForBikes, the City of Philadelphia, and the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), is proud to announce its second cohort of Living Labs focused on creating replicable programs for improving shared micromobility ...
PeopleForBikes' 2023 Industry Community Grants Recipients
December 13th, 2023
On December 12, the PeopleForBikes Coalition Board of Directors approved our 2023 Industry Community Grants recipients, totaling $100,000 in funding across 13 grants. The grants will help fund projects that support our focus on building infrastructure that makes communities great places to ride a bi ...
How Great Bike Plans Transform Communities
July 19th, 2023
Even great biking cities need to constantly improve to ensure they remain at the forefront of creating better communities for bicycling. Just ask Munich, Germany, which, even with a City Ratings score of 83, strives to make its city even better for bicycling with the 2022 announcement of a new plan ...
The Best New U.S. Bike Lanes
January 27th, 2023
With more protected bike lanes and low-stress bike networks being built across the country than ever before, we had a tough time picking this past year’s best new bike lanes. While numerous projects deserve recognition, we rounded up the top nine projects worth emulating. ...
Pennsylvania DCNR Finalizes E-Bike Policy for State Parks and Forests
January 20th, 2023
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) recently announced their final internal policy on the use of electric bicycles (e-bikes) on DCNR lands, effective immediately in state parks and forests. During the policy session, PeopleForBikes was eager to offer resources an ...
Better Bike Share Partnership Awards $75,000 in Grants
June 7th, 2022
The Better Bike Share Partnership (BBSP) awarded $75,040 in grants to 10 projects that will reach and engage traditionally underserved populations through shared micromobility. This is the seventh round of mini-grant funding the national bicycle advocacy organization PeopleForBikes will administer t ...
2022’s Best College Towns for Biking
May 30th, 2022
Whether it’s to reduce their carbon footprint, for exercise, to save money or just for fun, more and more college students across the United States are choosing to get around by bike. As a result, many colleges and universities are putting in extensive time and resources to make biking more accessib ...
A Proven Model for Accelerating Bike Networks
May 20th, 2022
In 2018, PeopleForBikes set out to accelerate the construction of mobility networks in five U.S. cities — Austin, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Denver, Colorado and Providence, Rhode Island. The project, dubbed the Final Mile, in partnership with Wend Collective, was succe ...
Five of the Best New Bikeways
January 14th, 2022
These 2021 builds are all more than just bike lanes — they represent political wins, Complete Streets projects and crucial connections that make up comprehensive bike networks. ...
How to Build Big Cities for Biking
June 1st, 2021
These six U.S. cities are top of class when it comes to their bike networks, infrastructure and political willpower. ...
‘Spring Back on Bikes’ Is Increasing Youth Ridership
May 24th, 2021
A collaboration between the National Youth Bike Council and Atlanta Students Advocating for Pedestrians is providing free bike tune-ups. ...
How 5 Cities Are Breaking Down Barriers to Biking
March 25th, 2021
Bike advocates in Austin, Denver, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Providence share how they’re already using recent recommendations from Charles T. Brown and other researchers. ...
Meet 5 Grantees Out to Transform Bike Share
February 19th, 2021
We’re proud to announce our Living Lab winners, all of which will create replicable programs for improving shared micromobility in low-income communities. ...
America's Best New Bikeways of 2020
December 18th, 2020
We can all agree, 2020 was tougher than anyone anticipated. As the year began, planning for a pandemic could only be described as a fantastical thought exercise, but by March the realities of COVID-19 reached all corners of America, dramatically changing nearly every aspect of people’s lives. ...
PeopleForBikes Announces Spring Community Grants Recipients
June 24th, 2020
Bike Businesses Roll Out the Welcome Mat for Congressional Leaders
September 13th, 2019
Taking advantage of the annual summer recess in D.C., PeopleForBikes arranged five August in-district meetings between bike business leaders and members of Congress (and their staffers) to talk infrastructure funding, public lands policies and tariff relief. Members of the House and Senate were invi ...
How Can We Reach Underserved Communities?
June 10th, 2019
Pittsburgh Youth Host Solidarity Ride Following Tree of Life shooting
December 5th, 2018
On Sunday, November 18, twelve members of Congregation Dor Hadash and 6 members of the Pittsburgh Youth Leadership group set out for a 60-mile bike ride from Pittsburgh to Connellsville on the Great Allegheny Passage. Our fearless leader, Mark, assured us it was only 50 miles, the wind would be at o ...