Bicycle Links

Walmart Foundation--Walmart is one of the largest bicycle retailers and heavily advertises their "Good Works" campaign. Detailed info on what they fund and how to apply is here.

The Law Officer's Guide to Bicycle Safety from MassBike. This program is intended to be taught by law enforcement officers to law enforcement officers as a stand-alone resource. The major objective of the program is to give law enforcement officers of all backgrounds the tools they need to properly enforce the laws that affect bicyclists. The program focuses on all police officers, including those who may not be interested in bicycling or who are not able to attend in-depth trainings. Most materials for the program are available online.

Bike on Transit ridership statistics from agencies across the US. This is but one page in the Bikes on Transit page, which lists bicycle-friend public transit across the U.S. and the world.

LessTraffic.com, the web site of David Engwicht, a primary advocate of "second generation" traffic calming. " While traffic calming focused on slowing traffic, street reclaiming focuses on reclaiming the street for neighborhood-building activities such as play, socializing, commerce, culture, and sharing of street wisdom. Ironically, reinstating these community-building functions automatically causes traffic to slow down."

The Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety is committed to saving lives and preventing serious injuries on Missouri's roadways. The coalition was formed in April 2001 and is comprised of hundreds of safety partners including law enforcement, local/city planners, not-for-profit organizations, state agencies, civic groups, private businesses and other safety advocates.

Australian research into the effects of mandatory helmet laws for bicycle users:

The general decline in road deaths and injuries following introduction of random checks of speed of motor vehicles and blood alcohol of drivers is a factor in a decline in deaths and injuries of cyclists in recent years.

Surveys carried out before and after introduction of compulsory helmet laws in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory have all shown increases in rates of helmet wearing, but also sharp declines in numbers of cyclists.

The earliest and among the best data of decline in numbers of cyclists are of child cyclists in Victoria, where total bicycle use by children decreased by 36 per cent in a year following introduction of the helmet law.