Bike Easy Blog
Bringing Bike Share Back
Blue Krewe, a new non-profit, is working to relaunch New Orleans bike share Bike Easy has advocated for bike share in New Orleans for over a decade. Bike share is a healthy, equitable, and affordable transportation option that contributes to quality-of-life in the region. I’m thrilled to be working on behalf of Bike Easy to help build a new…
The End of our #GivingForward Campaign
Bike Easy gives forward because we believe in the power of bikes to help create a healthy, prosperous, resilient, and equitable future for everyone in Greater New Orleans. But to bring this vision to life, we need the whole biking community to give forward. This is why we launched our year-end fundraising campaign “Giving Forward”, with the goal of…
Our #GivingForward Campaign Was a Success, Thanks to You!
We set an ambitious goal: raise $25,000 by the end of the year to support easy, safe, and fun biking in Greater New Orleans. With this year being so hard for everyone, we didn’t know if we’d reach our goal. But, it’s clear that the people of Greater New Orleans are dedicated to making 2021 a better year, for our…
Celebrating YOU for Supporting Us Through 2020
2020 was…well, I’m sure we can all fill in the blank. But, one thing we experienced at Bike Easy this year was the power of community. When we made the April Challenge and our education classes remote, turned the Bicycle Second Line into the Scavenger Hunt, you stuck with us through the adjustments. We’re feeling that support again because we have now…
Navigating Elysian Fields’ New Bikeways
For years, it’s been one of New Orleans’ most dangerous streets. From 2014 to 2018, on the half-mile stretch from N. Peters to St. Claude, Elysian Fields Avenue saw 21 crashes involving people biking, with one ending in a loss of life. Today, thankfully, Elysian Fields has brand-new protected bikeways in both directions on this same previously unsafe stretch, creating a vision and blueprint…
Join the Bike Easy Board of Directors
Help to make biking better by guiding and building our organization CALL FOR BOARD MEMBERS: 2021-2023 Term Founded in 2003, Bike Easy (formally the Metro Bicycle Coalition dba Bike Easy) is a small nonprofit based in Greater New Orleans. We are a fast-paced, grassroots organization hard at work making sure that bicycling is easy, safe, and fun for everyone in…
CBD and 7th Ward Get Their Complete Streets Designs
**This is a reblog from the New Orleans Complete Streets Coalition, of which we’re an Executive Member. Click here to visit their website.** We’re not speeding, but our campaign is moving fast. Recently, the City of New Orleans has made leaps in their Moving New Orleans Bikes plan to build an additional 75-miles of low-stress bikeways. From building protected bike lanes…
New Orleans needs Protected Bikeways in the CBD – Sign our petition with the New Orleans Complete Streets Coalition
We’re at a turning point for the biking community in New Orleans. As part of Moving New Orleans Bikes, the City is currently building 75-miles of connected, low-stress bikeway networks across New Orleans and after years of advocating for residents’ ability to safely bike to work, to school, to socialize, or any of life’s everyday needs, we’re on the verge…
Launching Our #GivingForward Campaign
Thank you for riding with us this year. Through all the difficulties of 2020, biking has been a balm for many of us. Relieving stress with physical activity, safely enjoying the (outdoor & distanced) company of riding companions, just getting where we need to go — more people than ever before are enjoying the benefits of biking in Greater…
#GivingForward on Giving Tuesday
We wanted to say a special thank you to everyone who donated so far during our “Giving Forward”, year-end fundraising campaign. On Giving Tuesday, we were able to raise over $1,500 which surpassed our day-of goal amount. This is the exact momentum we need to ensure we hit our “Giving Foward” goal and has the resources to continue our work…