An alert reposted from the LA County Bike Coalition: We need your help to get legislation to allow triple bike racks on buses! All you need to do is to click here…cut and past the material in italics below…add your name and hit send. Of course if you want to know what you are supporting [...]

Getting women and girls on bikes will make a difference in your community….and there are lots of people in the Southern California…working to make it happen. Yesterday Bikeable Communities launched the Long Beach based Women on Bikes Initiative. The purpose of the initiative is to encourage and enable more women and girls to include bicycling [...]

Want to avoid the parking lot rush???? Pretty much every Saturday the Trader Joe’s parking lot in the Bixby Knolls area of Long Beach looks like this. What can you do to avoid this scene…and frustration? Thanks to the Pedalers’ Society it is as easy as 1-2-3…

BIKEable Communities and twenty ardent supporters spend a few hours at “The Hub” building bikes and working on the facility. The Hub is a volunteer based non-profit organization in Long Beach that takes old bikes (with a few newer ones thrown in), reconditions them and then either gives them or sells them at low cost [...]

I’m over the top enthused about the video on Bike Friendly Long Beach done by Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and his team. It says so much about how Long Beach is setting the standard for being bike friendly….and more importantly the difference it is making in our community. “There is a lot to learn from what [...]

On Monday December 19th, 2011 the Long Beach Harbor Commission approved a revised Environmental Impact Report that gave final authorization to proceed with the replacement for the Gerald Desmond bridge…including a separated bike path. But this would not have happened without the voice of one person…Mark Bixby.

It pays to mind media attention and business generation when measuring bicycling impact on your community. How do you measure the impact (and benefits) of becoming a bicycle friendly community? You can count the number of people riding on a regular basis, you can look at the number of kids who ride their bikes to [...]

The Port of Long Beach looks set to approve the EIR with Bike and Ped Path for Gerald Desmond Bridge Another major milestone along the path to build a separated bicycle and pedestrian facility on the replacement for the Gerald Desmond Bridge will occur on December 19 when the Long Beach harbor commission meets to review [...]

There is nothing like a parade to help celebrate the holiday’s.  And this year Bikeable Communities joined into Long Beach’s Belmont Shore festivities.  With over 35 participants the group came together to promote the message of Share our Streets and to raise funds for bicycling  advocacy and education. The message conveyed was…..Share our Streets.  Streets are public [...]