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Other bicycling sites to visit...
AWORK IN PROGRESS...
Selected bicycling and bicycle advocacy sites:
- Adventure Cycling
Association: Home page for the ACA, America's national
bicycle touring group.
- Bicycle Federation
of America: National bicycle advocacy group and
sponsor of the Pro-Bike/Pro-Walk Conferences.
- Bicycle Helmet Safety
Institute: THE Resource on bicycle
helmet facts and issues! If webmaster Randy Swart doesn't have
it (or know where to find it), it probably doesn't exist.
- Bicyclopedia:
A fascinating and exhaustive source of information
about bicycling! Sponsored by the Oak Park Cycle Club and edited
by Steven Olderr.
BikeMap.com:
A great site with slick graphics! It features a growing
collection of bicycle maps in the Greater Philadelphia region
and Bike-on-Transit Maps Nationwide!
- Bicycle News Agency:
Global bicycle advocacy news from professional journalists.
This is a REAL news agency!
- British Columbia Cycing
Coalition: A new group starting up in B.C. We
expect to see great things from them!
- Chainguard
Online: Jack Taylor's site is truly awesome and
a monumental piece of work of use for ALL bike advocates. Check
it out!
- Cycling
in Canberra: Want to know what's going on in Australia's
Capitol City? Here's the place!
- Earth Force:
A great kid-oriented site for young folks who want to make
a difference.
- International Bicycle
Fund: The page for David Mozer's
IBF organization. Among other things, he runs bike tours in Africa
and publishes a variety of useful materials.
- Intersection
Online: A car-free site with lots of alternative
transportation and urban planning info. Also great cartoons!
Based in Toronto...
League of American
Bicyclists: The home page of the LAW/LAB, America's
national advocacy- and club-oriented cycling group.
- NOWBike
Homepage: Excellent bike advocacy resource, particularly
aimed at the Northwest US region.
- Ontario Coalition
for Better Cycling: A very extensive "vehicular
cycling"-oriented site with an alternative view on helmets.
- Ottawa
Bicycle Club: Hot stuff from an
active club in Canada's capitol city!
Pedal
Power ACT: The advocacy source for Canberra, Australia.
- The
Pedestrian/Bikeways Committee: Kern Trembath's Notre
Dame, Indiana connection, including info from the Indiana Bicycle
Coalition.
- People
Power Home Page: From the very active Santa Cruz
organization of the same name.
- Quick Release:
The online newsletter of the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition,
hosts of Pro-Bike/Pro-Walk '98!
- Rails-to-Trails
Conservancy: THE organization for those interested
in rail trails and all aspects of their design, planning, and
advocacy.
- Ride and
Roll Safely: Excellent source of safety materials and
education program materials.
- Science
of Cycling: Check out what the Exploratorium of
San Francisco has put together on bicycling. Great stuff, whether
you're young or old or in between!
- The
Youth Bicycle Education Network: THE national
organization for folks teaching hands-on cycling, especially
programs oriented to inner city kids!
Bicycle program sites:
- Minnesota Community
Bike Safety Project: Home of the well-known Pedal Power
Camps and 4-H Minnesota's bike program
- Minnesota
DOT Bicycle Program: Contact information for the
MNDOT bike folks, along with some of their most popular facility
references.
- Nashville's
online bike and pedestrian plan, "TOWARD A
WALKABLE, BIKEABLE, MORE LIVABLE NASHVILLE" includes, in
addition to the plan, an extensive list of references and websites.
Published Aug. 1998
- Montana's
own state bicycle/pedestrian program can give you
info on clubs, shops, rail trails, traffic laws, and more.
Important transportation, land use, and environmental sites:
- 1000 Friends of
Oregon: The site for the LUTRAQ (Land Use Transportation
Air Quality) project. Lots of material available, including downloadable
versions of some of their reports.
- Duany/Plater-Zyberk:
Famous new urbanist architectural firm's website contains
examples of their work, an extensive bibliography, and links
to other sites.
- EcoIQ:
Very interesting site on land use/transportation issues with
links to a wide variety of environmental and government-related
sites.
- NEPA
Net: the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality's
extensive site on the National Environmental Policy Act. Also,
take a look at EPA's Draft
Guidance on Environmental Justice.
- Local Government
Commission: Great source on community
building issues. Sponsors of the Putting Our Communities Back
On Their Feet conferences and publishers of many useful resources.
Surface Transportation
Policy Project: These folks are the ones to contact
if you have any questions about ISTEA and the reauthorization.
Lots of horsepower!
- TLC Net: The
home page of the Transportation for Livable Communities NETwork.
Good stuff with a land use/transportation link view of the world.
Check out their mailing lists too...
Tri-State Transportation
Campaign: If you're in New York, New Jersey, or
Connecticut, and you care about non-motorized transportation
issues, you MUST contact the TSTC!
Victoria
Transportation Policy Institute: Todd Litman's group
is THE place to go for information on the external costs of the
different transportation modes.
"Mainstream" transportation sites:
- U.S. Dept. of Transportation
Bureau of Transportation
Statistics
- GPO
Access: where to go to search the
Fed'l Register, Code of Fed'l Regulations, etc.
Institute for Transport
Studies
Institute for Transportation
Research and Education
- Nationwide
Personal Transportation Survey: The home page of
the agency in charge of producing studies of transportation in
the U.S.
Transportation Research
Board
Institute
of Transportation Engineers
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