2012 Archive
Bikes Belong Awards $60,000 in Grants
June 07, 2012
Bikes Belong is pleased to announce grant awards to eight great projects in our Spring 2012 Community Grant cycle as well as two recipients through the Bikes Belong Foundation Research Grant Program. These awards support innovative bicycle projects…
Bikes Belong launches project for protected bikeways—Green Lane Project
May 29, 2012
Austin, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Announce Plans for Safer, Stress-Free Bicycling Bikes Belong Foundation will launch its Green Lane Project, a new project to bring protected bikeways to six U.S.…
Latest Bicycle Friendly Communities announced, along with new tool for quantifying bike-friendliness
May 13, 2012
The League of American Bicyclists today announced the largest-ever round Bicycle Friendly Communities. According to the League's blog, "While communities from California to Connecticut joined the ranks of BFCs, the Mountain West rose above the rest,…
National survey shows bipartisan support for maintaining bike funding
May 08, 2012
New survey results from America Bikes reveal overwhelming support for biking and walking, with more than 80 percent of Americans favoring level or increased federal funding for sidewalks and bike lanes.Shortly after students and their parents…
Six women to ride entire Tour de France route for Bikes Belong Foundation
May 06, 2012
In a historic effort to inspire more women to ride bikes, more often, six amateur female bicyclists are tackling the entire 3,479-kilometer 2012 Tour de France route. The women will ride each stage in a single day, one day ahead of the racers. They…
