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You Know Me. I Ride a Bike. – Stesha Irons
Bike Fort Collins first launched You Know Me. I Ride a Bike. Back in 2009 as a broader awareness campagin featuring local residents active in our bike loving community. Beginning in 2021, we are excited to reintroduce this bio-series, recognizing one new Fort Collins resident each month here on our news-blog/website, The Pedal Post eNewsletter and BFC social channels, and highlighting their love...
Introducing: Bike & Ped Safety Reporter Tool
Bike Fort Collins is proud to have helped initiate a tool concept for which planned development ultimately made its way as an Action Step (page 128) into the North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization’s (NFRMPO) 2021 Regional Active Transportation Plan (ATP) during its development. In early 2021, given the data-driven nature of prioritizing infrastructure improvements and investment,...
Bike Prom to Celebrate Bicycling as a Culmination to June Bike Month
June 14, 2022 -- FORT COLLINS, CO – Bike Prom, a bike-themed event celebrating and bookending Colorado’s June Bike Month with live music, DJs, and bike movies will be held Saturday, June 25th at the Lyric Cinema beginning at 8:00 p.m. The event will also feature a silent auction and guests will have a final chance to register in a raffle to win a new e-bike, where the winner will be drawn from...
Intersection/Facility Inventory Survey
In our April issue of The Pedal Post (eNewsletter), Bike Fort Collins asked you to identify key areas of concern for you when riding your bike around town, with a special focus on intersections and infrastructure. Thank you to those who responded. Below is a recap of the results. Please identify up to three intersections or bicycle facilities where you have felt unsafe while riding your...
Ride of Silence 2022
The Ride of Silence is a national day of remembrance “to honor cyclists who have been killed or injured on America’s roadways” and takes place annually on the third Wednesday of May. Coming together for the first in-person Ride of Silence in over two years, Bike Fort Collins accepts the role of leading this poignant event in an effort to remind us of the important work in keeping our streets...
First RAT Ride of the Year Visits Southeast-Central Fort Collins
The first Ride-Around-Town (RAT) Ride of the year took place this month. RAT rides are open to the public and their purpose is to explore and discuss the strengths and weaknesses in bicycle infrastructure and connectivity in Fort Collins, as well as celebrate improvements as they are completed. Date: May 11, 2022 Time: 5:30 p.m. BFC Ride Leaders: Bruce Henderson, Dave Dixon, Tim Wooten #...
CSU Students Present Final E. Elizabeth St. and College Ave. Design
Last December, we introduced DeWulff Engineering, a group of CSU engineering students who were developing a proposed design solution for the intersection of East Elizabeth Street and College Avenue as part of a class project. As we had shared back then, Bike Fort Collins was excited to hear they recognized the same problem that BFC had brought to the attention of the City’s Bicycle Advisory...
HSD Safety Stop Highlight
Guest Writer – Sara Stieben, Hadfield Stieben Doutt, LLC Did you know that there is a new law in Colorado known as the Colorado Safety Stop law? The law allows for cyclists 15 years and older to treat a stop sign as a yield sign and to treat stop lights as stop signs- meaning the cyclist need not wait for the red light to cycle to green before proceeding through the intersection. As with every...
Improvement Opportunities for Stuart, Stover and Welch Presented to BAC
BFC is now on an approx. quarterly schedule of presenting improvement opportunities to the City's Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC). Having done so several times already, BFC was appreciative of the opportunity to present the following three infrastructure/intersection improvement opportunities to the BAC this past Monday (April 25). Two of the three featured intersections were also recently...
Intersection/Facility Focus – Survey Results: Prospect Rd. & Mason Trail
HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED CONFLICT? In our March issue of The Pedal Post (eNewsletter), Bike Fort Collins posed the question: “Have you experienced conflict or felt unsafe while navigating the intersection of Prospect Rd and the Mason Trail?” Thank you to those who responded. Below is a recap of the results. WHAT HAPPENED? In addition, for those who reported conflict, we asked them to describe their...