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July Featured Bike Friendly Business – Gallegos Sanitation, Inc.
Not everyone would consider a sanitation company a good fit for a bike friendly business. However, Gallegos Sanitation (GSI) became a bronze status Bike friendly business in December 2016, due, in part, to the efforts of its Sustainability Coordinator, Becca Walkinshaw. Becca has championed the BFB initiative but she also had many other teammates within GSI who jumped at the...
Local Racing in Full Swing
Local Racing in Full Swing by BFC Board Member Will Hickey Our city is amazing for riding bikes in any capacity, but when it comes to local racing Fort Collins is in a league of its own. From April through October there a grassroots races every week right here in town. Grassroots races are as much community building events as they are competitions. Brand new racers are welcome, there’s no need...
Out and About with Fort Collins Bike Share
Fort Collins Bike Share has gone through a lot of changes since launching in April 2016. As a successor to the beloved Fort Collins Bike Library, we’ve seen similar ridership numbers to that of our old business model - about 25% of our riders live within Larimer County, the rest have zipcodes which originate outside the county. While we love receiving all of the love from...
MapNoCo
Larimer County Department of Health and Environment’s Built Environment team is excited to announce the launch MapNoCO! MapNoCO is a crowd-sourced data collection tool for Larimer County residents and visitors to document the quality of how they move around their community. Throughout the month of June, we will be promoting a community wide competition where participants have the chance...
Transit Action Week
Tonight at the city's regular council meeting at city hall (6:00PM) [note: council voted 6-1 to support the most robust Sunday service option, the route realignment concerns below remain], Fort Collins city council will consider the next step in fulfilling a commitment it made during the last budget process. They are due some credit for this step. Finally, it seems, we will join the vast...
ED Letter for June: Paris, Open Streets, Busses, Bike Month and You
(Graphic courtesy of Cari Brown) I don't like shaming people for personal behavioral decisions that have adverse climate impact. I know transit isn't a viable option for a lot of people due to lifestyle or crap routes or schedules and I know bikes aren't an option for some people for various reasons and I know meat tastes good and a lot of otherwise responsible, thoughtful people get...
Pathways to Health: Speaker Series
On May 18th, Bike Fort Collins hosted Charles Brown as part of a speaker series, presented by Kaiser Permanente in conjunction with their sponsorship of BFC's Active Living program. Charles Brown, MPA is a senior researcher with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) and adjunct professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, both at Rutgers University. He...
A Quick Mid-month Update: What is City Plan?
Hi friends. I wanted to take a minute out of prepping for a busy summer of bike and active living related events and share a quick note about the upcoming city plan update. But I wanna start by asking a few questions: Do you value contiguous, protected bike lanes and well developed low stress bike networks? Do you think transit has an important role to play in leading Fort Collins away...
May Updates from the Executive Director
Boy oh boy, this is a BIG month here at BFCHQ. Rides, events, news, and check out my speech at Earth Day last month! [su_row][su_column size="1/3"]Meet Michelle! Up front, I want to welcome and introduce our new community relations coordinator MIchelle LaCrosse to the team. This is a new position for us and we are really excited to have someone with Michelle's skills and experience helping...
A couple of easy Monday calls to action
Hi Everyone, We'll have a longer update next week on our regular May newsletter; introducing our new community relations coordinator, upcoming rides and events, etc. But I wanted to reach out with a quick easy ask for help. Theres are two big ticket items on the council work session agenda for tomorrow night (Tuesday, the 25th). Its a work session, so there is no opportunity for comment,...