NEWS-BLOG

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SRTS Fuels Learning, Elation, Self-confidence in Local Schools

A bike is often a kid’s first taste of freedom. Go farther. Go faster. Go with friends. Just getting to go is at least half the fun. When you live in one of the nation’s most bicycle-friendly cities, having a bike and riding it is very much about belonging to your community. For more than 12 years, Bike Fort Collins  has partnered with Poudre School District (PSD) and the City of Fort Collins to...

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Hundreds of Students Rise to the Challenge

As we first introduced in spring of 2021 and continued last fall, as an augmentation to our Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programming, we hosted another Walk/Bike-to-School Challenge this October for students in area PSD schools to see how many days they could walk or ride their bike to school. We were super-excited to grow the school participation this time around by 300%, increasing from three...

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Fall RAT Ride Visits the new Pitkin Advisory Bike Lane

The following is a summary of this Ride-Around-Town (RAT) Ride organized and led by Bike Fort Collins. 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.  Date: October 19, 2022 Time: 5:30 p.m. BFC Ride Leaders: Bruce Henderson,       Dave Dixon, Tim Wooten # Attendees: 6 THE ROUTE...

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Presentation of Three More Improvement Opps Prompts Great Discussion with City’s BAC

Consistent with previous presentations, BFC shared three improvement opportunities with the City's Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC) at its monthly meeting earlier this week (October 24) garnering some great discussion. One of the intersections was also featured last month as part of our monthly Intersection-Facility Focus survey in The Pedal Post eNewsletter. And, similar to previous...

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Intersection/Facility Focus – Survey Results: W. Horsetooth Road and S. College Avenue

In our September issue of The Pedal Post (eNewsletter), Bike Fort Collins posed the question: “Have you experienced conflict or felt unsafe while traveling through the intersection ofW. Horsetooth Road and S. College Avenue?” 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 experience....

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You Know Me. I Ride a Bike. – Whitney Allison

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...

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BFC Adds to SRTS “Let’s Ride” Video Series

Building upon the work BFC began in 2021 in partnership with the Larimer County Department of Health and the Built Environment, where we created three initial videos in a “Let’s Ride” series showcasing the safe route to school from three mobile home parks to their respective middle schools, we've added three more safe route videos. Each video was shot from a point-of-view (POV) perspective and...

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Intersection/Facility Focus – Survey Results: E. Vine Dr. & N. Timberline Rd.

HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED CONFLICT? In our June issue of The Pedal Post (eNewsletter), Bike Fort Collins posed the question: “Have you experienced conflict or felt unsafe while traveling through the intersection of E. Vine Drive and N. Timberline Road?” 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...

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Fort Collins Getting Its 1st Advisory Bike Lane

As we mentioned would be coming back on our fall 2021 RAT Ride, Bike Fort Collins is very excited to see our city's first Advisory Bike Lane opening early next month on Pitkin Avenue (on the Pitkin Bikeway) between Remington and Smith Streets, just east of the CSU campus. Advisory Bike Lane street design originated in the Netherlands and first began appearing in the U.S. in 2011 (Minneapolis,...

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3rd Annual Wish for Wheels FoCo Program Continues to Bring Hundreds of New Bikes to Second Graders Who Don’t Have One

September 20, 2022 — FORT COLLINS, CO – This fall, Bike Fort Collins, in partnership with peer organization, Wish For Wheels, has a goal to bring a new bike and helmet to every second-grader in Poudre School District’s Title 1 schools as part of the 3rd Annual Wish for Wheels FoCo program, and the community’s support is needed to make it happen. Each new bike and helmet has a program cost of...

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