2017 BICYCLE FRIENDLY STATE℠ RANKING
The Bicycle Friendly State ranking provides a ranking for all 50 states based on four public data sources and a Bicycle Friendly State survey that is answered by each state’s Department of Transportation and/or a statewide bicycle advocacy organization.
Very useful categories are tracked also so that states and people can learn from what other state’s are doing.
Like this exciting project in California’s own Santa Monica.
Santa Monica's Lincoln Boulevard is getting a big makeover. We're transforming the corridor into a friendlier environment for pedestrians, cyclists, and transit customers. The bus-only lane opened today! pic.twitter.com/iFGNuAZsDJ
— City of Santa Monica (@santamonicacity) November 20, 2017
Or the progress of San Gabriel Valley for bicycling and walking – Love these Greenways!
Great #SGVgreenways tour along the #EmeraldNecklace today, with @AARPCA and @lacdpw bikeways engineer Matt Suska! Most of LA County's multiuse path network was built in early 80s, here is hoping for a major expansion in the 2020s! 🚲💦🌳 #OutsideIsFree #bikeLA #SGVbikeChallenge pic.twitter.com/aWf6bbzi6i
— BikeSGV (@BikeSGV) November 19, 2017
The fact is, we can and are doing more.
If the U.S. had made as much progress reducing vehicle-crash deaths as *every other affluent country* since 1990, about 10,000 fewer Americans would die each year.
That’s 30 Americans every day. https://t.co/yf1Q5Rbr15 pic.twitter.com/lhsF36Wy8X
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) November 20, 2017
But we aren’t getting it done fast enough, and we are falling behind.
America Is Now an Outlier on Driving Deaths
New York Times
November 19, 2017
As a result, this country has turned into a disturbing outlier. Our vehicle fatality rate is about 40 percent higher than Canada’s or Australia’s. The comparison with Slovenia is embarrassing. In 1990, its death rate was more than five times as high as ours. Today, the Slovenians have safer roads.
#VisionZero San Diego has big plans, big improvements are coming our way.
Pop-up information sessions this Saturday re: @SANDAG Central Ave Bikeway, in Kensington and City Heights https://t.co/mYITobXd5c pic.twitter.com/XvU5GsN0qa
— paul jamason (@sdurban) November 14, 2017
Thanks to our hardworking Bicycle, Walking, and Transportation Advocates like San Diego Bicycle Coalition, Bike San Diego, Safe Routes to School, don’t want to leave anyone off the list here! Changes for safer streets and healthy ways to getting around are happening.
Thank you @BicycleBeer & @GreenFlashBeer for the wonderful event yesterday and supporting a world-class city for biking in SD. #cheers #bikeSD #webikeSD @BikeSD @sdbikecoalition pic.twitter.com/hpAo6hqE9G
— John P Anderson (@JPAdotcom) November 20, 2017
If you need more to get excited about, this AARP article hits the spot, “10 Ways Bicycle-Friendly Streets Are Good for People Who Don’t Ride Bicycles”
“One of the things we’ve found with bike infrastructure is that it makes streets safer for everyone, not just bicyclists,” explains Barbara McCann, director of Safety, Energy & Environment for the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). “It reduces the frequency of crashes. It calms traffic, which makes streets less chaotic and safer for everyone.”