Sometime around the pandemic a bi-weekly Zoom meeting of members of our network started up and has been the most active part of this network. It meets on the 1st and 3rd Thurs. afternoon of each month @ 4 pm (ET/EDT). If you’d like to join this meeting please email moderator/ manager Jeff Bruchez (UC Davis’ Active Modality Manager) for the Zoom connection link.
Contact Jeff for a link to running notes and topics for discussion.
Tag: League of American Bicyclists
Great National Campus Bike Summit!
Great National Campus Bike Summit to William Varney, Shane Tedder, Lance Broeking, Sandra Broadwill & everyone else involved. Thanks so much for putting it all together and making the experience so positive.
Here’s a link to my Strava report from the ride around campus on Oct. 18, 2024: https://strava.app.link/GgVgqsa8NNb
Here are a bunch of photos and videos & a 2nd batch on our Facebook group. Please add your own photos and videos there. Justin Mog of UKY-Louisville posted more photos here on Facebook.
Here’s a link to many more photos & videos in the cloud (Google Photos):
https://photos.app.goo.gl/8YHV8R7VhGZxt81i9
Hope to see you in Montana next year!
Big news for our network!
42 universities awarded a Bike Friendly University award for the first time or renewed!
Here’s the LAB’s press release.
Congrats to all the universities that got recognized for their efforts in becoming BFU’s!
2019 Bicycle Friendly University awards announced!
Courtesy Amelia Neptune, LAB, October 17, 2019
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I’m very excited to share that the League of American Bicyclists has announced our 2019 Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) awards this morning, with 48 New and Renewing BFUs, and 4 Honorable Mentions.
A few highlights from the 2019 Round:
There are 3 new Platinum-level BFUs (for a new total of 8) with the addition of UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, and UW-Madison. Stanford, Portland State University, and Colorado State University all renewed their existing Platinum statuses this round as well.
We also added our first BFU in the state of West Virginia, so there are now 208 Bicycle Friendly Universities awarded in 47 states + DC. (We’re just missing Hawaii, North Dakota, and Delaware!)
The largest campus to be awarded this round was The Ohio State University, with over 61,000 students, which moved up from Bronze to Silver, and the smallest campus in this round was M State Fergus Falls, with 700 students, which is a new Bronze-level BFU.
See the full announcement here.
And the full current list of BFUs here.
The 2020 BFU Application is already open for submissions, and the deadline to apply next year is August 25, 2020. (But it’s never too early to get started!) Find the online application and Word document preview here.
Learn more about the BFU program here.
Thanks, and a giant congratulations to all 52 schools being recognized today!
Cheers, Amelia
51 New and Renewing Bicycle Friendly Universities Announced!
Fantastic news to see so many of our members getting national recognition for their hard work making their campuses more bike friendly! 164 universities are recognized now!? Wow!
Here’s an excerpt from the League of American Bicyclists’ press release on Nov. 28, 2016:
“Today, the League of American Bicyclists announced 51 new and renewing Bicycle Friendly Universities℠ (BFUs) from 25 states, There are now 164 BFUs in 44 states and Washington, DC, a cutting-edge group of colleges and universities across the United States transforming their campuses and the communities around them.”