Date: September 5th 2008 1:24:02 p.m.

Top 5
1. Washington
2. Wisconsin
3. Arizona
4. Oregon
5. Minnesota
Bottom 5
46. North Dakota
47. Mississippi
48. Alabama
49. Georgia
50. West Virginia


From: Andy Clarke [mailto:Andy@bikeleague.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 6:06 PM
To: president@santacruzcycling.org
Subject: Bicycle Friendly State Rankings Released


Dear Bicycling Advocate:

The League of American Bicyclists has recently expanded its efforts in building a Bicycle Friendly
America with its Bicycle Friendly State Program:
http://bikeleague.org/programs/bicyclefriendlystate/ ; The two part program recognizes states that
promote cycling through legislation, policies, programs, and by creating new places to ride,
educating motorists and cyclists, and encouraging people to bike for transportation and recreation.


The first part of the program has been to create an annual ranking of all 50 states. The ranking was
based on 74 questions across 6 categories, and looks at all California is doing for bicycling and
bicyclists.  California has finished 7 overall. In each of the 6 categories your state ranked:

3-tied in Legislation
10-tied in Policies & Programs
2-tied in Infrastructure
27-tied in Education & Encouragement
10-tied in Evaluation & Planning
24-tied in Enforcement

For a full listing of all 50 states visit http://www.bikeleague.org/news/090508bfs.php

As advocates, we hope you find the Bicycle Friendly State program to be a great tool to assist you
in your work to make California a great state for cyclists, as it allows a unique opportunity to
open doors with the DOT, tourism board and state legislators.  We hope you encourage California to
apply for further recognition- Bronze through Platinum, similar to our popular Bicycle Friendly
Community program. This award program will be open to all states regardless of where they ranked,
and the additional questions will allow for the further description of policies and programs that
many of you asked for. This BFS Award application will be available later this fall, and will build
upon the information already collected.





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