People from all walks of life use bicycles for transportation. But there’s a widely held perception in the United States that biking is a status symbol for elites in Spandex with absurd gear. Informing this stereotype is an assumption that people of color and people without much money don’t bike. There’s the affluent road warrior, […]
This year's keynote is Veronica Davis, co-founder of Black Women Bike, which aims "to build community and interest in biking among black women through education, advocacy and recreation." Davis, an engineer, also started a consulting company aimed at making urban planning more inclusive.
Bicycle Colorado needs everyday people to speak up about safe streets, so that politicians keep their constituents in mind when crafting and voting on legislation, for instance, and prioritizing funding for biking and walking.
Mayor Michael Hancock lent his most emphatic support yet to what he called "bold" investments in biking, walking, and transit in a speech he gave at Bicycle Colorado's Moving People Forward conference.