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Latest News
- Blog: Seeing is Believing: The Green Lane Project
- Feature: What the Bay Area learned from the Dutch about better bicycling
- Feature: Bicycling in the Netherlands: Lessons for the USA
- Feature: The surprising rise of Minneapolis as a top bike town
- Slideshow: Making Bicycling Irresistible
- Blog: Bicycling by Design
- Feature: Seville, Spain's remarkable transformation
- Blog: The Right Tool for the Job
- Feature: Portland's not perfect, but offers bright ideas for making biking mainstream
- Feature: A week of biking joyously - An account of a Bikes Belong workshop in the Netherlands
- Learn more about what it's like to ride in the most bicycle-friendly country in the world, the Netherlands, with our presentation "Everybody Rides."
Vision
The Bikes Belong Foundation's Bicycling Design Best Practices Program inspires, assists and catalyzes U.S. cities working to implement world-class transportation networks.
Bicycling is experiencing unprecedented growth across America as mayors, transportation officials and citizens appreciate the multiple benefits and low cost of modern bicycle transportation networks. Leading North American cities such as Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Portland and San Francisco are developing next-generation bicycle infrastructure and policies based on established international designs.
Cost-effective bicycling facilities such as protected cycle tracks, bicycle-specific signal lights, and traffic-calming inspired by European examples are being adapted and implemented in American cities. These evolutions in traffic engineering and urban design are making bicycling safer and more more appealing to men, women, and children of all levels of cycling experience.
In countries such as the Netherlands and Denmark, bicycling is an inexpensive, practical and mainstream form of transportation. By adapting and translating proven practices from these global leaders, American cities are saving money, reducing traffic congestion and supporting the kinds of lively, thriving streets that make great cities great.
Strategy
There are two key elements of the Bicycling Design Best Practices Program:
• Workshops and Study Tours – Bikes Belong assembles key U.S. transportation professionals and policy-makers to study, experience and be inspired by the most advanced bicycling environments in Europe and North America. The participants include traffic and transportation professionals, policy-makers, civic and community leaders from cities across the countries.
• Improve U.S. design manuals and professional guidance – The Best Practices Program supports efforts to incorporate state-of-the-art designs in national standard manuals for bicycle traffic engineering, as well as programs that enable innovative bicycle projects to be funded, evaluated and implemented locally.
Contact
For more information about the Bicycling Design Best Practices Project, contact Zach Vanderkooy.
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