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Is Your Town or City Bicycle Friendly? Add A Link to Your Localism Community Web Page

Bike rider in traffic, Tucson, AZ The League of American Bicyclists lists Tucson among the top eight communities in America for being bicycle friendly. That's information that we want to feature on the Web.

What about your community? Here's something useful.

Under the heading Bicycle Friendly Communities, you'll find more than 60 communities listed on their website. Scroll down on the page to "Current Bicycle Friendly Community Master List."

Yours may be on the list. If so, feature the link on your Localism Community Sponsor Web page. It's one more tool in your toolbox.

I'm Mike in Tucson, your preferred Tucson, Arizona mortgage lender.

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Posted by Mike Jones on 09/29/2008 06:36 AM

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26 Comments on Is Your Town or City Bicycle Friendly? Add A Link to Your Localism Community Web Page

SEP

2008

Great site. More people ride bikes than cars in Key West.

Gary,

That's pretty cool. Thanks for being the first to comment.

Mike in Tucson

Great information, thank you for sharing it with us.

Mike - I think this is great for Tuscon. Growing up in the greater Boston area I can't imagine how there would be room to accomodate bicycles easily with such narrow streets. Here in NH we are working at constructing bicycle lanes.

Mike--What a great informational site. I work a bit too far north of the cities for people to bike to work but know closer into the downtowns this would be a wonderful addition as Mpls and St Paul have many bike trails and with gas prices more and more people have started to pedal to work!

Coeur d'Alene Idaho - City by the Lake Mike, We are a VERY VERY Bicycle Friendly City and County. I'll have to look into that site and try to figure out what the "feature the link on your Localism Community Sponsor Web page" is in my tool box. Thanks for another "Learning Experience" here on AR!

Also, Thanks for commenting on my Post!

Coeur d'Alene Idaho - City by the Lake Mike, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho is on the List in the "New Releases." I'll try to figure out how to "Feature the Link" on my site. Thanks again for this great information/tool.

Again, thanks for commenting on my Post!

Mike, as you know I grew up in southern AZ but my husband had never been there. The second time we went he tried to use the bike lane as a turning lane! Good thing there were no bikers around at the time! I still tease him whenever we're in Tucson about it.

Mike - Yep...here in Ashland Oregon, we made the list. Medford Oregon is working on it, but has a ways to go yet. Thanks for the great idea for linking to Localism!

Looks like AR has me stuttering... ;->

Mike, Lynchburg's nickname is "The Hill City" but we do have several areas of the city that are bike friendly, many nature trails and bike paths.

We built bike paths and for the most part most of the bikers still use the road. My big complaint is they expect cars to obey traffic rules and the biker seem to think they don't have to stop or comply with the basic rules of the road. If you are gonig to use the road obey the rules.

Mike,

None of the large cities in the county made the list. Maybe it is something that we need to work on here.

SEP

2008

In Cary - we're ALL OVER THIS! Great reminder!

Eleanor,

Thanks for stopping by to comment.

Don,

Ditto! It's good to see you. I just updated the link because Rick Price let me know it was outdated. Check it out again.

Terry,

I hear you. Check out the LAB site I linked to above; they have all sorts of resources.

Debbie,

That's pretty cool!

Karen,

I took care of it for you. Thanks for commenting!

Mandi,

I did that once when I first came to Tucson. LOL

Pam,

If you need help inserting the link, just call me on my cellphone.

Teri,

I wonder if those skywalks that go through the city allow any sort of wheeled vehicle?

Judy,

We have our annual Tour de Tucson coming up in November. It's huge!

Barbara,

You're welcome!

Mike in Tucson

Mike, get in shape for Ride The Rockies next year...... Comes through western Colorado every year.... got a nice place for you to crash for the night

OCT

2008

nice post, i like it and Orlaandi is a Bronze award winner...

woo hoo

Chris the implemtner

P.S. Do you know my friend Paul Dunn??

OCT

2008

Mike,

Great post... We are known here in Tucson for our great training routes as well as being a top training location for top pro riders from around the world. Here is another great site to learn more about Arizona cycling....AZCYCLING.COM

Mike Carsten

The city that I live in is hardly walker friendly let alone bicycling. There are park trails, but getting around town is nearly impossible! Thanks for the info!!!

Hi Mike, I checked and my city is not on the list, but I see cyclists all the time! They aren't commuter cyclists but seem to be on longer treks. Hmmmm. I give them credit (and the right of way!). Cheers, Harley

OCT

2008

Mike-Great post, Thanks for sharing.

OCT

2008

Joseph,

I'm glad you stopped by to comment.

Harley,

I'll be over to check out your blog; thanks for commenting.

Mike,

We'll see you today at Burkie's birthday party! Thanks for commenting.

Chris,

Paul is an associate here in the Rain, and I'm a subscriber to his blog.

Joe,

Nothing would make me happier!

Mike in Tucson

NOV

2008

Hi Mike. I live in a very bicycle friendly town. There are bike rental places on the island for when vacationers come down. It is quicker, and better for everyone, to park your car for the week and bike or walk. We are surrounded by ocean and the bay so the ride will be beautiful. I will need to get linked under the communities. Thanks for the post.

Our area has the Paul Bunyan Trail which is paved for biking pleasure for 80 miles. It is the longest Rail to Trail system in the nation.

Brainerd, Mn. isn't even on the list - oh well we are still famous.

Robin,

You're very welcome! See you soon on your blog.

Kathleen,

When I was a high school kid visiting Grandma in Sauk Rapids, we drove up to Brainerd and I had the pleasure of walking across the great Mississippi River. (I think that was Brainerd.) I remember the Paul Bunyan stuff too. Thanks for commenting.

Mike in Tucson

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