Building a Bicycle-Friendly Community
Bicycle Bowling Green's mission is building a bicycle-friendly community in and around Bowling Green, Ky.
We measure progress in the "5 E's":
- Encouraging people to ride more
- Educating cyclists and drivers
- Engineering new bike facilities, like bike paths and lanes
- Enforcing laws related to cycling
- Evaluating our progress and planning for the future
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- Bicycle Friendly Community program
- Bowling Green League of Bicyclists (BGLOB) Bowling Green’s original bike club
- Bowling Green Police Department's bike registry Register your bike in case of loss or theft
- City of Bowling Green's bicycling page
- Greenways Commission of Bowling Green and Warren County Builds shared-use paths around town
- League of American Bicyclists
- Safe Routes to School Encourage your kids to walk or ride to school
League of American Bicyclists blog- Bicycling is healthy, now prove it September 1, 2010One constant in policymaking, from the Progressive Era through the New Deal up to today, is the need to support policy proposals with data. Policymakers are expected to quantify the extent of a problem and measure the impacts of policy interventions. Just look at the curriculum of a public policy graduate program today and you [...] […]
- Black Eye for Black Hawk August 31, 2010Imagine my surprise to get an e-mail solicitation yesterday from a casino in Black Hawk, Colo., asking me to bring our business to their facility…. Regular blog readers will know this is the very same town that has banned bicyclists from its streets, making it really quite an unlikely destination for a national bicycling organization [...] […]
- Hate Traffic? Yet Another Reason for Bike Infrastructure. August 25, 2010A ten-day traffic jam stretching more than 60 miles outside of Beijing, China is a nightmare – a nightmare for those in their cars, for the Chinese government, and for its citizens. The jam, noted as the longest in history, formed on August 14 and has caused some drivers to be stuck on the road [...] […]
- Join the League at Pro Walk/Pro Bike August 25, 2010The League is proud to be a Gold Level sponsor of this year’s Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference taking place September 13-17. Bronze Level BFC Chattanooga, TN will be hosting the biennial conference. Along with sharing information on the League’s programs to participants from our booth, we’ll be taking part in several plenaries, panel discussions and [...] […]
- Smart Cycling on the Rise – Be a Part of the Movement! August 24, 2010As bicycling continues to grow across the country, so does the need for increased understanding of how to safely ride a bike. There’s much more to learn beyond the basic balance, braking and shifting. Luckily, with proper training and a bit of practice, it’s not that hard. With our terrific Smart Cycling series of courses, [...] […]
- Bicycling is healthy, now prove it September 1, 2010
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WKU Promotes Bicycling
Bike Red rides a tandem bike with a student at the Velorution bike festival on WKU's campus. Photo by Clinton Lewis, University Staff Photographer. Western Kentucky University has been a leader in promoting bicycling. WKU has added 500 bike racks to campus during the last three years. All regular service buses are equipped with bike racks. [...] -
Join Bike BG Here!
Riders cross the restored pedestrian bridge at RiverWalk at Mitch McConnell Park in downtown Bowling Green. Do you want to help make Bowling Green a more bike-friendly community? It’s easy. Join Bicycle Bowling Green and help the dream come true. Your tax-deductible donation helps Bike BG to promote education for both cyclists and drivers; encourage more [...] -
Striving to Become a Bicycle-Friendly Community
Bowling Green Mayor Elaine Walker talks to a group of riders at the Mayor's Bike Ride in fall 2009. Bowling Green is striving to become a Bicycle-Friendly Community as recognized by the League of American Bicyclists, a national bike advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. The Bicycle-Friendly Community award has been granted to dozens of communities [...]