About Us

Bikeable Communities is a non profit 501c3 advocacy organization focused on making communities safer and more connected through cycling.

Mission
Help make communities easy to navigate, safe and connected for all cyclists

Vision
Cycling connects our southern California coastal communities as well as our sister communities across America.  People in the communities embrace cycling as a normal mode of transportation. They ride for fun, they ride for exercise.  They ride to work, to school, to the store.

Cycling in and between our communities is safe.  Drivers respect cyclists and cyclists respect drivers.

We have helped create a more enjoyable, safer place to live, work and play.

What Bikeable Communities does

Why you should join Bikeable communities

Your contribution to and participation in Bikeable Communities helps ensure that cyclists and other community members have a voice at the local, regional and state levels. It makes sure that your concerns and issues are covered in the media.  It ensures that you have a voice in what happens in your community that is cycling related.

Bikeable communities gives you a place to share you views on what is important to you with regard to cycling in your community.  It gives you a chance to work with others toward common goals that will help make your community a safer place to cycle.

Our Successes

Bikeable Communities’ roots extend back to the mid 1990′s. At that time John and Georgia Case had the vision for an iconic as well as practical facility that would encourage urban bike commuting.     Building on that vision Bikeable Communities opened the first commuter bike facility in Long Beach in 1996 – the Bikestation Long Beach.  Bikestation Long Beach was modeled on similar successful facilities in Europe and Japan.  Since 1996 Bikeable Communities has helped numerous communities across the country including Palo Alto, San Francisco, Berkeley, Washington DC, Seattle, Santa Barbara, Chicago, Tempe, Mexico City, Guangzhou PRC, Vancouver BC and Hillsboro build similar facilities that complement their bike commuting culture.  In 2009 Bikeable Communities founded a new company, Mobis Transportation Alternatives,  which licenses the Bikestation Brand and continues to fulfill the original mission of Bikeable Communities.  Mobis has worked with cities on bike and car sharing programs as well as it’s fundamental mission of building facilities for bike commuters.

Over the past 2 years the members of Bikeable Communities have been focused on working  to make our home town of Long Beach, CA a truly bike friendly city.  As a result of our cooperative efforts Bicycling Magazine has identified Long Beach one of the top 25 most bicycle-friendly cities in the nation.  Notably it has become recognized for it’s willingness to innovate, to experiment, to make a difference…not just an incremental difference…but a big difference in the look, feel and culture of our City through the building of cycling infrastructure and creating bicycle-friendly policies.   As the Long Beach mobility Coordinator, Charlie Gandy, has said…Long Beach is small enough to be innovative but big enough to make a difference. And we are making a difference.

Notable successes for the City that have drawn national attention

The Sharrows on 2nd Street

 

The Vista Street Bike Boulevard…the first bike boulevard in Southern California

 

 

 

 

 

 

The downtown Third and Broadway separated bike lanes

 

 

Separate bike and pedestrian facility included in the design (and ultimately build) phase for the new Billion Dollar bridge that will connect the downtown Long Beach to the Port.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bike Corrals in downtown

 

 

The New Bikestation Long Beach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Future

The future is indeed bright and exciting.  Coastal connections from San Pedro to San Juan Capistrono.  Completion of the coastal trail from San Pedro to Long Beach.  Bike Friendly port policies.  New bike facilities in our regional parks. And working with businesses on bike friendly business districts…that are good business and good the community.  Safety programs aimed at educating both cyclists and drivers.  And working with policy makers to help ensure that all of this not only can…but will happen.

As our friend and mentor Mark Bixby would have said…it’s time to Go Big or Go Home.  And we intend to help fulfill his dream by Going Big.  Please help us by donating…or volunteering.

BOARD of Directors

John Case

John Case is the founder of the non profit Bikeable Communities and the BIKESTATION, the first non profit bike commuter facility in the United States. BIKESTATION first opened in downtown Long Beach in 1996.  Bikeable Communities was formed in 1998 to promote urban bike transportation issues around the concept of the BIKSTATION. John had been involved in real estate development in the 80′s and was also involved in creating the 1st natural gas vehicle to cross the United States without a support vehicle.

Over the years Bikeable Communities has helped dozens of cities across the United States become more bike friendly. John lives in Long Beach. CA with his wife and son.

Allan Crawford

Allan Crawford has been cycling most of his life.  He grew up in a small midwestern town and then moved to Minneapolis where riding a bike was what you did to get around.   He has cycled all over the world, won five national championships racing tandem with his wife and worked closely with the City of Long Beach serving on their informal advisory council to help make the city one of the most bike friendly urban cities in the US.

Allan Crawford, Founder & President of AC consulting, has worked in the areas of knowledge management, research, strategic planning and education for over 25 years.  He is co-director of the Master’s in KM program at  Cal State Northridge where he also teaches the course on Leadership and Innovation.

Allan experience includes work in the energy industry, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, city government and Veteran’s hospitals.  He is also a professional photographer with photos appearing in a wide variety of publications.

Allan’s academic background is in geology, holding a PhD from the University of Wisconsin.

allancrawford@bikeablecommunities.com

Martin Howard   MartinLiveLB0811

Luciano Gonzalez

The Bikeable Communities Team