Cycling advocacy
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Cycling advocacy consists of activities that provide greater safety, comfort, and convenience for bicyclists by educating cyclists and motorists, improving road quality on bike routes, establishing more and better bicycle parking, providing legal protections for cyclists by including cycling interests in new legislation, and increasing public and political support for bicycling. There are many organizations whose primary mission is to advocate
for these goals. Most are non-profit organizations supported by donations, membership dues, and volunteers.
Advocate
An advocate is a term for a professional lawyer used in several different legal systems. These include Scotland, South Africa, India, Scandinavian jurisdictions, Israel, and the British Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man...
for these goals. Most are non-profit organizations supported by donations, membership dues, and volunteers.
See also
- Bicycle AmbassadorBicycle AmbassadorA Bicycle Ambassador is a bicycling advocate, or member of team of advocates, tasked with promoting bicycling in a community. Such advocates are traditionally hired by the city government and networked extensively with other municipal offices whose activities effect cycling. Early programs began...
- Bicycle lawBicycle lawBicycle law is a specialized field of law relating to the use of bicycles. Although bicycle law is a relatively new specialty within the law, first appearing in the late 1980s, its roots date back to the 1880s and 1890s, when cyclists were using the courts to assert a legal right to use the roads....
- Critical MassCritical MassCritical Mass is a cycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month in over 300 cities around the world. The ride was originally founded in 1992 in San Francisco. The purpose of Critical Mass is not usually formalized beyond the direct action of meeting at a set location and time and...
- Community bicycle programCommunity bicycle programA bicycle sharing system is a service in which bicycles are made available for shared use to individuals who do not own them. Bicycle sharing systems can be divided into two general categories: "Community Bike programs" organized mostly by local community groups or non-profit organizations; and...
- List of United States bicycle advocacy organizations
- Pedaling to FreedomPedaling to Freedom-Pedaling to Freedom:Pedaling to Freedom is a documetary film scripted, edited and directed by Vijay S. Jodha -Synopsis:India boasts of many globally reputed institutions of higher education, yet suffers from widespread illiteracy especially among the female population.Pedaling to Freedom is a...
- Time%27s Up!
- With My Own Two WheelsWith My Own Two WheelsWith My Own Two Wheels is a 2010 film by brothers Jacob & Isaac Seigel-Boettner about the transformational power of bicycles. It was screened at the Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride, Colorado.-Synopsis:...
- World Bicycle ReliefWorld Bicycle ReliefWorld Bicycle Relief is an international, non-profit organization based in Chicago, IL that specializes in large-scale, comprehensive bicycle distribution programs to aid poverty relief and disaster recovery initiatives in developing countries around the world. Their programs focus primarily on...
External links
- The Alliance for Biking and Walking
- Tempe Bicycle Action Group, Tempe, AZ
- Bikes Belong
- A complete list of bicycle cooperatives and co-ops in North America
- League of American Bicyclists
- International Mountain Biking Association
- Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition
- Virginia Bicycling Federation
- Time's Up! Environmental Organization
- SFBC - San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
- MassBike - the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition