By Kurt Nordback Portland, Oregon is rightly famous for beer, tattooed hipsters, and bicycling. Among large metropolitan areas, Portland has by far the highest rate of people biking to work (6.1%), almost double that of the next contender. While this is well below Boulder’s bike-to-work rate (10.6%), small cities with large universities, like … Read More
Protected Bike Lanes
Protected Bike Lanes: Encouraging the Concerned Rider Community Cycles has been working to get protected bike lanes installed in Boulder. What is a protected bike lane? And why do we feel it’s important to get more of them in our community? For many reasons–economic, environmental, health and livability–we want to see as many people as … Read More
Community Cycles Advises City on Future Bike Projects
The City of Boulder has produced a list of possible future bike projects to ask for funding from the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG, or “Dr. Cog”). Our bicycle cooperative’s Advocacy Committee reviewed and ranked the 15 possible projects (only a few will get funded). Almost all the projects were underpasses or other work … Read More
New Parking-Protected Bike Lanes on University
Boulder cycles forward! The City of Boulder has built parking-protected bike lanes along University Avenue between Broadway and 9th. The city basically swapped the positions of the existing standard bike lane and the curb-side car parking. The bike lane now runs in a safe, quiet corridor between the curb and the row of parked cars. There … Read More
League of American Bicyclists Recognizes Community Cycles
In the latest round of Bike Friendly Businesses, Community Cycles was recognized as a gold level Bike Friendly Business by the League of American Bicyclists. Community Cycles improved from our previous designation as a silver level business. One of 800 businesses around the country designated as bike friendly, Community Cycles is one of only nine gold level … Read More
