Bike Easy Blog
Are you going to #JoinUp with Bike Easy?
Here’s what helped us survive and thrive this past year: our bikes and our members. This year we helped transform New Orleans’ bike infrastructure. Almost exactly one year ago, Mayor Cantrell painted some of the Moving New Orleans Bikes initiative’s first protected and low-stress bikeways. Today, 10 miles of protected bikeways have been built in Algiers, Elysian Fields Avenue and surrounding streets have protected…
So many great prizes for doing what you love most!
We’re halfway through the Bike Easy April Challenge! If you haven’t had a chance to log in your miles in the Love to Ride platform, don’t fret! You can manually back log your rides, or sync with Strava for it to log them in automatically. We still have a lot of great prizes that will be randomly drawn amongst participants…
Will You Support Complete Streets in Algiers?
The New Orleans Complete Streets Coalition just launched this petition in support of Algiers’ new bikeways that we thought you’d want to see (you can read their blog post about it below). Construction is finishing up on Algiers’ protected and connected bikeway network. Soon, folks on the West Bank will be able to ride their bikes to work, the grocery store, the…
10 Years of New Orleans Biking to Work
Biking to work isn’t just fun, it’s progress. This is the 10th year that we’ve partnered with Entergy to host Bike to Work Day. Usually, we all ride our bikes to Duncan Plaza and celebrate our commute in the most New Orleans way: with food and friends. Each year, the number of people commuting with us grows and so do the number…
Get Moving for the Bike Easy April Challenge!
Get yourself, coworkers, family, and friends in gear with the Bike Easy April Challenge. This April, we have so many ways to celebrate biking in Greater New Orleans! If you’re one of the many people who have just recently started riding a bike, excited to get back in to riding, or one of the many people that ride everyday,…
The 2021 Bike Easy April Challenge Is HERE!
The Bike Easy April Challenge, powered by Entergy, is here! Today is the first day of our month-long friendly competition where you earn points by riding and encouraging others to ride, all while growing and celebrating the New Orleans biking community. So start logging your miles today and make sure to invite your friends, family, and co-workers to join the Challenge…
Gift Card Drive
Want to support the Bike Easy April Challenge and local business? Take part in our Gift Card drive! This drive was started during out Bike Easy April Challenge in 2020 as COVID shut doors to many local businesses, especially the service and hospitality sector that is the backbone of our community. By purchasing a gift card to your…
Celebrate and Connect with the Bike Easy April Challenge
This is a guest blog post from Willis Rey, a Bike Easy April Challenge planning committee member, former Bike Easy board member, and lifelong biker. You can watch his video on his vision for better biking in New Orleans by clicking here. The pandemic almost took away one of my greatest joys: biking. Last year, at what became the last…
How Volunteering Creates a Safe, Bikeable City
For many New Orleanians, living in a safe, bikeable city is important. To Jay— Bike Easy’s Volunteer of the Year Award recipient— this is even more important because he uses biking to move around and explore the city. “New Orleans feels more dangerous for biking because there’s a mentality that bikers don’t belong on the road”, Jay says This…
Blue Bikes to Relaunch with 500 E-Assist Bikes by September
Blue Krewe, the new non-profit dedicated to bringing bike share back to New Orleans, and the City of New Orleans recently announced more exciting details about the return of Blue Bikes! See the press release below for more information. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 18, 2021 Media Contact: Destinie Hammond destinie@bluekrewe.org 504.298.9269 Blue Krewe and City of New Orleans Announce…