Louisville is a Bicycle Friendly Community…

So says the League of American Bicyclists. Louisville has maintained it’s bronze designation from the League of American Bicyclists prestigious Bicycle Friendly Community selection.

This designation is one with real meaning–it is difficult to earn and
important to renew. There are now 96 awarded communities in 32 states.
Since the program’s inception in 2003, 245 communities have applied.
“In this round, 10 communities were given honorable mentions,” Clarke
said. “It is important to recognize communities as they begin to build
bicycle friendliness into their network. But a designation only goes to
communities with established records in two or more of the five
categories.”

I’ll be the first one to admit that Louisville still has some work to do in the bike friendly department but the city has made huge strides and continues making huge strides to make Louisville an even more bicycle friendly community. See the recent grants of nearly $5 million the city received to make bicycle and pedestrian improvements for the city for evidence of this continuing improvement.

The investment will add miles of bike ways and sidewalks in
Louisville, which will benefit an increasing number of people who are
commuting to work and running errands without cars.

Funds will also be used to add safety signage along narrow roadways,
educate citizens about bicycle safety and improve crossings near
schools.

via Broken Sidewalk