HOW WE'll DO IT

PeopleForBikes programs and initiatives, combined with industry expertise and volunteer leadership, will tackle these bold goals in 2022.

Accelerate the construction of safe, fun and connected places to ride.

City Ratings—Expanded Connected Bike Networks

  • Improve city bike networks and increase city ratings scores (rate 700 U.S. cities)
  • Celebrate great places to ride
  • Assess and produce a “state of bicycling” report on the best places to bike

Advocacy Academy Education Series

  • Train more advocates and city leaders through expanded video resources
  • Help cities discover how to tap into broad community support and gain the commitment of local leadership
  • Create a NACTO and PeopleForBikes bikeway design guide video series

Final Mile — Accelerated Build-Out Program for Cities

  • Capture and amplify success through videos and stories
  • Launch nationwide film tour celebrating key city successes

PeopleForBikes International Study Tours

  • Turn inspiration into action
  • Showcase great places to bike abroad and bring those best practices home

Advance pro-bike and pro- bike-business legislation.

Legislative, Legal and Safety Subcommittee

  • Increase funding for bike paths and trails
  • Improve bike access legislation and policy
  • Continue work on trade and tariff initiatives
  • Advocate for the conservation of public lands and trails

Electric Bicycle Subcommittee

  • Pass model, three-class bills in seven states
  • Advocate for electric bicycle purchase incentives
  • Increase access for eMTBs
  • Produce safety and education programming

Sustainability Working Group

  • Position bikes as a climate solution
  • Implement a nationwide electric bicycle battery recycling program
  • Produce chemicals management best practices
  • Establish packaging, waste, EOL and circular economy initiatives
  • Introduce supply chain and social responsibility efforts

Reduce barriers to access and welcome more people to the joys of bicycling.

Membership, Education, Events and Marketing Subcommittee

  • Continue Ride Spot industry campaigns to keep people riding
  • Host and design our Bicycle Leadership Events Series (BLC and more)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Subcommittee

  • Continuing industry education and learnings
  • Create peer-to-peer networks
  • Organize the Youth Cycling Coalition pilot project in Morgantown, WV
  • Support the Better Bike Share Partnership and Living Labs

Research and Statistics Subcommittee

  • Expand and improve our Business Intelligence Hub
  • Produce more primary participation, demographic and research studies
  • Implement more insights surveys to better understand the new consumer

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