Sentences with phrase «encourage bicycling»

In an analysis of seven U.S. cities, NACTO's third Equity Practitioners» Paper looks at the relationship between building bike lanes and bike safety, and finds that municipal policies that encourage bicycling, like introducing large - scale bike share programs, make it safer for everyone on a bike.

This is a job for the Urban Repair Squad, the vigilante artists who want «to encourage bicycling as an antidote to the poison that is car culture.»

The company says it is also encouraging bicycling events and other more contemporary pursuits.

Not exact matches

Encourage little ones to enjoy their digits by playing This Little Piggy, or doing bicycling movements with their legs.

A new bicycle master plan recommends 300 miles of bike lanes throughout Buffalo — more than triple the amount that the city has now — to provide a safer, more connected network that encourages more bicycling.

At 10 a.m., Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. will host a press conference at Woodlawn Cemetery to encourage cyclists to take part in the 23rd Annual Tour de Bronx, the largest free bicycling event in New York, 3800 Jerome Ave., the Bronx.

I encourage anyone interested in bicycling in our region to request a guide to make your experience safer and worthwhile,» Legislator Rath said.

Various exercises such as walking, bicycling, and running are activities that encourage the growth of leg muscles, provide cardiovascular benefits, and improve our health.

The SRTS program provides money to help communities enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school; to make walking and bicycling to school safe and more appealing; and to facilitate the planning, development and implementation of projects that will improve safety, and reduce traffic, fuel consumption, and air pollution in the vicinity of schools.

Automobile - related business interests oppose plug - in hybrids because they last years longer, incur fewer accidents, encourage shorter routine driving habits whereby walking and bicycling become better travel options and mass transit more practical to arrange.

I asked bike sharing systems to describe any efforts to encourage and promote installing new bicycle travel facilities near residents with lower incomes or disproportionately underrepresented in bicycling.

The plan will also establish a mini-grant program to support community bicycling efforts and provide secure bike parking inside five to ten city buildings, to encourage more employees to bike to work.

Lloyd and Mike enthusiastically encouraged me to go further down this route, so here's a piece on my observations regarding the quite different relationship Dutch kids have to bicycling (compared implicitly to American kids since I'm American).

Some of the possible solutions the report proposes are familiar, like more efficient modes of transportation and the development of more compact cities that encourage public transportation, bicycling, and walking, especially in the rapidly urbanizing parts of the world.

Caroline has directed campaigns that address all areas of bicycling, from developing new neighborhood bike lane networks, encouraging growth in the number of daily bike commuters, to leading national roundtables of experts on public bike share systems.

It has long been clear that we need protected bike lanes in order to encourage mass bicycling.

Bicycling is an efficient and affordable means of transportation and one encouraged in many areas of the city, yet unfortunately, bicycling is not always safe.

Bike helmet use is encouraged (or mandated) to reduce the risk and harm associated with bicycling.