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Want a bicycle-friendly America?
Join the League
of American Bicyclists.
Working for a bicycle-friendly America, LAB has
a membership of 300,000, including 40,000 individuals and 600 affiliated
groups. Become a LAB member today.
Want a bicycle-friendly community?
Visit online the Bicycle-Friendly
Community Campaign.
People bicycle more where they feel safe and
welcome. Residents enjoy reduced traffic, breathe cleaner air and
get in better shape. This high quality of life attracts new residents,
and the community benefits with business growth, rising property values,
increased tourism and public health.
The League of American Bicyclists awards qualifying
cities and towns its "Bicycle Friendly Community" designations, complete
with road signs that proclaim to visitors that your community appreciates
-- and enjoys -- a high quality of life.
Visit www.bicyclefriendlycommunity.org
and learn how to engage community leaders and urge your city or town to
become America's next Bicycle-Friendly Community!
(The Bicycle-Friendly Community
Campaign is Supported by grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
and Bikes Belong.) |
"I am proud to be a League member.
I look at it as an investment in
America's future."
- Lance Armstrong
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U.S.
Rep. Jim Oberstar
8th Congressional District,
Minnesota
Named "Bicycle Advocate of the Millennium"
by Bikes Belong Coalition |
Want Congress to support bicycling?
Endorse the America
Bikes agenda.
America Bikes represents a coalition of organizations
advocating for a better bicycling infrastructure in the U.S. Its
agenda:
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Urge Congress to continue the funding
that has created bicycle trails and facilities in communities across the
U.S.
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Support a Safe Routes to School program.
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Help develop a bicycle transportation
network.
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Ensure that new road projects are safe
for bicyclists.
See the details and endorse the agenda at America
Bikes.
Bike business owners
-- Want to gain customers?
Join the Bikes
Belong Coalition.
Bikes Belong is sponsored by America's bicycle
industry. Its goal: To put more people on bicycles more often.
The industry's voice in Washington, Bikes Belong also offers grants to
help build bike facilities and leverage TEA-21 funding, runs public promotion
campaigns for bicycling, and supports other groups pursuing similar goals.
Contact Gary
Sjoquist, Bikes Belong Membership Director
(952) 941-9391, ext. 288
Want to help kids rediscover the joy of biking?
Support
Safe
Routes to Schools.
Walking and biking to school gives children a
taste of freedom and responsibility. They enjoy the fresh air, energize
growing muscles and explore their neighborhood. They arrive at school
alert and invigorated.
Yet today, most kids (13 out of 15) never enjoy
what was once a rite of passage for American schoolchildren.
Give children a chance to discover the healthy
freedom that generations of children have enjoyed. Learn how to help
your school establish a Safe Routes program at www.saferoutestoschools.org. |
"Let me tell you what I think of
bicycling.
I think it has done
more to emancipate women
than anything else in the world.
It gives women a feeling of freedom
and self-reliance.
I stand and rejoice every time
I see a woman
ride by on a wheel...the picture
of free,
untrammeled womanhood."
-
Susan B. Anthony
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