Ames Bicycle Coalition 🚲

An advocacy group working to improve bike and pedestrian infrastructure, build community among cyclists, and promote safe streets for all users.

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The crosswalk protections bill HR2568 has PASSED the Senate unanimously and is on its way to the Governor's desk! This bill will expand legal crosswalk protections to cyclists and all other types of pedestrians, regardless of your form of transportation.

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The first congestion pricing in the US moves one step closer to being implemented.

https://t.co/DbA6rhipBq

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Innovative do-gooder - the "Magnet Man" - helps Atlanta cyclists from getting flat tires!

https://t.co/1pjWqzzHP2

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The final draft of the Ames Walk Bike Roll plan intended to help shape "a future where active transportation options are safer and more accessible for all Ames residents" is available until Friday, April 5. Please read the report and provide feedback!

https://t.co/BlsBDFMRKJ

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A profile of the new Iowa Bicycle Coalition director, from the Ames Trib:

https://t.co/dfkNv1wABy

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@martingrasser Question from an avid birder: I was just wondering if you could confirm that your iconic Twitter bird was in part based on a hummingbird? But Doug Bowman supposedly claimed there was some Mountain Bluebird inspiration in there?

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Bicycle touring via solar-powered e-bikes:

https://t.co/b1FTT4higS

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Dear God, no. “Tesla owners are using steering-wheel weights to drive hands-free” (Washington Post headline today)

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“A millennium from now, archeologists examining pictures of parked cars will be convinced that vehicles were sacred cultural totems based on the way we lined our public spaces with them, like so many statues, and built structures to house them” (Janette Sadik-Khan, Streetfight)

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NY Times headline today: “U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Are at Highest Level in 41 Years, Report Says”

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Construction has begun on a new segment of trail that will follow Ioway Creek from South Walnut Avenue to a point about 1/2 mile east of South Duff (light blue line on map)! Photo taken from South Duff bridge looking west toward Walnut.

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from the Ames Trib: volunteers needed for Ames stopover during RAGBRAI.

https://t.co/vAR6o3JKaD

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NY Times article on the “bike bus” to school:

https://t.co/n22N4AtjKc

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From the Ames Trib: “area residents are encouraged to attend a June 22 RAGBRAI informational meeting from 1-6 p.m. at the Ames City Hall Council Chambers to learn how the community will accommodate the ride.”

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Starting 5/31/23, you will not be able to cross Grand at 8th, 9th, and 10th.

For the estimated construction completion date, here's the city's news release.

https://t.co/reCby7fc9w

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Great crowd at the Mayor's Bike Ride today! 50-60 cyclists on a beautiful spring Saturday!

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A new RAGBRAI one-hour documentary is showing at the Varsity Theater in Des Moines for the next week or two. It is a wonderful film and a real tear-jerker! In large part, it is about how people use long bike rides like RAGBRAI for purposes of healing, dealing with tragedy, etc.

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Construction started for the shared-use path that will connect the back side of McFarland Clinic West with Manning Street. Thanks, @cityofames!