{"id":15509,"date":"2020-08-25T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=15509"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:59:03","slug":"nbg-biking-report-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2020\/08\/25\/nbg-biking-report-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"NBG Biking Report Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Power of Our Biking Report Cards\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Biking Report Card<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

The most important component in this annually revised document (our NBG Biking City’s profile) is each city\u2019s Biking Report Card. It makes an accounting of these variables:<\/p>\r\n

# of bike lane miles | # of off road trail miles | # Bike Racks | Bike Coordinator? | Bike Maps? | # of bike rack equipped buses | Bikes on Trains? | % of trips by bike?Bike to Work Day? | # Colleges | # of Rain\/snow days # of days below 45 degrees | Recycled Bike Program? | Bike bridges? | Bike undercrossings? | Bike Boulevards? | Ctty Bike Repair? | Population | Planned? | Bike Police?<\/p>\r\n

Since these reports give cities a scorecard they can use to show off their work, once fully operational, they will have the effect of placing our Anchor Cities in friendly competition with one another. A public document, it will also give them a way to sell themselves to prospective employers interested in locating there. Much cited and referenced by the media these documents will also serve as a Wikipedia type resource for tourists considering a visit.<\/p>\r\n

Within the city itself, these reports will give city leaders a way to showcase their work amongst their constituents. It will be this register of achievements for the cycling community that will give them an analytic they can use to see where they stand and where attention is needed. This as it also gives the local Public Works people a way to shine as they then push for more such work.<\/p>\r\n

In time, our Biking report cards will become the gold standard cities all across America (we will charge non NBG Anchor cities to develop their own Biking Reports cards according to our spec) come to rely on. Well beyond our 20 NBG Anchor cities, they will become a tool other cities can use to get their own population centers up to the kind of speed that will attract out of the area bike visitors as well as encourage more of its own residents to travel by bike.<\/p>\r\n

As the urban centers we have selected make it safe for bike riders to get to their own businesses and attractions, this will have the effect of making them attractive travel destinations for weekend cyclists coming in by train or plane.<\/p>\r\n

Long haul cyclists from out of the area will also feel called to bike to our Anchor Cities as well. And as touring cyclists regularly enjoy the roads and paths that connect our Mayors’ Ride cities to one another, businesses in the smaller population centers along the way will benefit from all the activity that results. When these town leaders then see the increased dollars that result from hotel stays, restaurant meals and visits to their own attractions, etc., they will have a vested interest in improving the bike roads that get to them. They will become a voice to lobby their regional legislators to make it safer and more enjoyable for out of the area pedal visitors to reach them.<\/p>\r\n

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Display advertising will also be available to underwrite this program.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Examples (updates much needed)
Reno 2016<\/strong><\/a>
<\/strong>San Francisco 2014<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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