Bike Easy Blog
BE AN AMBASSADOR FOR COMPLETE STREETS AND LOW-STRESS BIKING
Sign up as a Complete Streets Ambassador for Fall 2019 With news swirling around us every day, it’s worth pausing a moment and settling your mind on this fact: New Orleans is now committed to a future of safe biking and improved mobility options for every resident in Orleans Parish. Mayor Cantrell’s new Office of Transportation is busy moving forward…
TULANE AMERICORPS VISTA END OF YEAR REPORT
Project Progress Report for Bike Easy Bike Easy is a Community AmeriCorps VISTA Partner with Tulane University Center for Public Service. AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program that aims to reduce poverty in the United States. Bike Easy VISTA Assignment Objectives and Member Activites Communications – Develop the Bike Easy communications program to better reach the campus and local communities in order to promote Bike…
BIKEWAY NETWORK WILL BRING BENEFITS TO ALL PEOPLE ON THE ROADS
New Orleans Complete Streets Coalition praises draft of bikeway network blueprint for promise of safety, equity, and connectivity Media Contacts: Julie Erskin 504.513.2557 julie@thespearsgroup.com Bikeway Network Will Bring Benefits to All People on the Roads Just released draft of bikeway network blueprint promises safety, equity, and connectivity NEW ORLEANS – Last night, Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s Office of Transportation and Department of Public…
BECOME A LEAGUE CYCLING INSTRUCTOR
Get certified with Bike Easy! As we’re seeing an unprecedented amount of bikeway expansion in the city this year, education around safe biking and how to share the roadways is more important than ever. By becoming a League Cycling Instructor (LCI), you will gain the skills and knowledge to help New Orleans become a safer bicycling community and help Bike…
SAY YES TO LOW-STRESS BIKING IN NEW ORLEANS
Attend a city-wide meeting Thursday, August 8th. At the first two of three presentations, we’ve had the chance to look over the City’s plans to bring safe, accessible biking to every part of our city, and I can tell you: there’s ample reason to be excited for what’s coming to New Orleans! Now’s your chance to see for yourself and…
USE BIKE LAW AS YOUR GO-TO BIKING RESOURCE
A blog from our friends at Bike Law Louisiana MAKE US YOUR BIKING RESOURCE. Recently, we’ve been fielding lots of questions about issues encountered while riding. What if the driver that hit me left the scene? Who’s responsible for paying my medical bills? How much fault be assigned to me if I’m doored? I was harassed and caught the license…
“TRAIN THE TRAINERS” FOR P.E. EDUCATORS
A workshop for Elementary and Middle School educators SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL P.E. TEACHER TRAFFIC SKILLS TRAINING A PRIMER FOR TEACHING WALKING AND BIKING SAFETY On Saturday, September 14th, Bike Easy will teach basic bike and pedestrian safety education for teachers. This course focuses on teaching elementary and middle school students. The workshop will be taught by Bike Easy instructors…
COME SEE THE CITY’S VISION FOR LOW-STRESS BIKING
Get a sneak peek! Tricycling on the Algiers Levee Tomorrow, come get a sneak peak at the City’s vision for a safe, accessible bikeway network for New Orleans! Click here to let us know if can join us tomorrow at the Algiers Regional Library, or next week in New Orleans East or downtown at the Main Library. At Bike Easy we’re excited…
JULY 2019 NEWSLETTER
What’s happening at Bike Easy in July. July 18th, 2019 SIGN THE COMPLETE STREETS POLICY PETITION Sign the petition to support an updated Complete Streets policy and a network of connected and protected bikeways in New Orleans! We are close to reaching our goal of 1,000 signatures showing Mayor Cantrell that the public supports an equity-focused, data-driven, and transparent Complete Streets policy and protected bikeways…
BIKE EASY IS A ‘CLEAN FLEET LEADER’
Press release from the Clean Fuel Partnership regarding the Clean Fleet Awards. 30 BUSINESS LEADERS AWARDED FOR CLEAN TRANSPORTATION EFFORTS SET REGIONAL RECORDS FOR REDUCING OVER 4.7 MILLION GASOLINE GALLONS AND 31,000 TONS OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY USING DOMESTIC CLEAN FUELS AND FUEL-SAVING TECHNOLOGIES NEW ORLEANS – On July 9, 2019 the Regional Planning Commission’s Clean Fuel Partnership and Louisiana Department…