Saturday, July 16, 2011
By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A year after a national group gave Pittsburgh “bicycle-friendly” status, two city officials and the head of Bike Pittsburgh traveled to Minneapolis this week to see how to further improve the city’s bicycle culture.
Yarone Zober, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s chief of staff, Stephen Patchan, the city’s bicycle-pedestrian coordinator, and Scott Bricker, executive director of Bike Pittsburgh, attended the three-day Bicycle Transportation Leadership Workshop sponsored by the city of Minneapolis and bicycle groups.
The League of American Bicyclists has named Minneapolis a bicycle-friendly city with gold status, so officials wanted to see what tips they might glean for moving beyond the bronze status awarded to Pittsburgh last year.
“The one thing that really struck me is the bike-share program,” Mr. Zober said.
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Here’s an article in the Sunday Trib
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_747145.html
[…] In total, nine officials from Columbus and Pittsburgh came to visit July 13-15. Why were they in town? The Bikes Belong Foundation leads workshops as part of its Bicycling Design Best Practices Program and this time it showed off Minneapolis as the host city. While here the city leaders were provided tours of the cycling infrastructure that we call home as well as leaning more about the many retailers in the Twin Cities area (QBP and Park Tool were two sponsors of the event). Read more about their visits in the Bicycle Retailer News and on Bike PGH. […]