Bicycle Advocacy

Bicycle advocacy

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"It's the first machine we master as children
and the one we abandon when the seductions of the automobile take over."
- Colman McCarthy

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

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:

Urge Congress to continue the funding that has created bicycle trails and facilities in communities across the U.S.
Support a Safe Routes to School program.
Help develop a bicycle transportation network.
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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