THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF A BICYCLE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY GETTING STARTED MAKING PROGRESS SETTING THE STANDARD There’s no single route to becoming a Bicycle Friendly Community. In fact, the beauty of the BFC program is the recognition that no two communities are the same and each can capitalize on its own unique strengths to make biking better. But, over the past decade, we’ve pored through nearly 600 applications and identified the key benchmarks that define the BFC award levels. Here’s a glimpse at the average performance of the BFCs in important categories, like ridership, safety and education. 33% 33% 26% 43% 50% 60% 80% 70% 90% per 10K citizens per 20K citizens per 32K citizens per 70K citizens per 77K citizens 78% 65% 45% 45% 43% 30% 1.2% 3.5% 5.5% 12% 20% 370 100 180 90 50 0.2 0.5 0.6 1.4 4 very good good very good very good very good very good good good excellent excellent excellent excellent yes yes yes yes yes some some maybe maybe yes yes yes yes yes likely very likely very likely good yes yes yes yes good very good excellent excellent one at least two at least two quarterly monthly BRONZE SILVER GOLD PLATINUM DIAMOND BICYCLE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY DIAMOND BICYCLE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY PLATINUM BICYCLE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY GOLD BICYCLE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY SILVER BICYCLE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY BRONZE E D U C A T I O N E N G I N EER I N G E N C O U R A G E M E N T EV A L U A TI O N K E Y O U TCO M E S E N F O R C E M E N T L A W E N F O R C E M E N T / B I C Y C L I N G L I A S O N B I C Y C LE -F R IE N D L Y L A W S / TOTAL BICYCLE NETW OR K people co m m u tin g BIKE PLAN IS ACTIVE BIKE CLUB S & BIKE M O N TH & BIK E A CTIVE BICY C L E A C TIV E MILEAGE TO TOTAL ROA D by bicycle CURRENT AND BEIN G SIGNATU RE EVEN TS TO W ORK EVE N T S ADV IS O R Y C O M M IT T E E A D VO C A C Y G R O U P NETWORK MILEAGE R E C R E A T I O N A L F A C I L I T I E S L I K E B I K E P A R K S & V E L O D R O M E S IMPLEMENTED O R D I N A N C E S IN P LA C E S P U B LIC E D UCATION A N N U AL OFFERING % OF PRIMARY & S E C O N DARY SCHOOLS O F F E RING BICYCLING E D UCATION B IKE ACCESS TO A R TERIAL STREETS 1 BIKE PROGRAM STAFF PERSON RIDERSHIP FATALITIES per 10k daily co m m uter CRASHES p er 10k daily com m uter W ITH BIKE LANES PUBLIC T R A NSPORTATION O F A D U L T BICYCLING S KILLS CLASSES O U TR EACH produced by Designed by Language Dept. WWW.BIKELEAGUE.ORG