INFOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY BIKE FRIENDLINESS
Barrera, Nadia
This summer I will be benchmarking our current bike plan and will be preparing for our re-application to the League as a (at least gold-level) Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC).
The application for BFC is due next February. Please stay tuned as I seek your input on how you are impacting the bicycling community.
The infographic in the article below is a good indicator of what the League expects from BFCs across the country.
-> According to a May 15th Bikocity article, "Several years ago, I was the director of an organization in the Charlottesville, Virginia region that got Charlottesville designated as a Bicycle Friendly Community (BFA). There were great guiding documents that the League of American Bicyclists supplied as part of the application process, but it certainly would have been nice to have this infographic (The Building Blocks of a Bicycle Friendly Community: http://bit.ly/10LLXir) that the League just created to delineate the differences between Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum awardees. Check it out.
"'To make it clear that this isn't a strict tool for measuring which category a community falls into,' the League's Carolyn Szczepanski adds, 'Now, the beauty of the BFA program is the fact that it's not one-size-fits-all. We're able to take into account the unique characteristics of each community -- so it's not a rigid rubric. But we love the way this distills some of the key benchmarks and metrics in an interesting and engaging way.'"
Source:
http://bit.ly/10JHbOA
Title: "How Bicycle Friendly Communities are Evaluated (Infographic)"
Author: Zach
Via Linked in APA Transportation Planning Division (free registration required): http://linkd.in/12J3Zlx
Nadia M. Barrera, PMP
City of Austin Public Works | Neighborhood Connectivity Division
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