Even though bicycling and walking make up 12% of trips in Pennsylvania, and bicyclists and pedestrians make up 11% of the fatalities statewide, Pennsylvania only spends 1.5% of its transportation budget on biking and walking projects and that 1.5% is … Continue reading
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The Big Takeaway from Last Week’s National Bike Summit
Last week’s National Bicycle Summit, an annual confab organized by the League of American Bicyclists, was an invigorating and innovative three days in Washington D.C. As reported in earlier posts, the Summit featured the terrific National Women’s Bicycle Forum on Monday. We … Continue reading
From Around the Commonwealth
Pittsburgh: 17 more miles of bike lanes and sharrows added in 2012 Since 2007, we’ve worked with the City to install a number of on-street bike markings, which include bike lanes and shared lane markings, or “sharrows.” The above map shows … Continue reading