2021
- Applied for and helped Provo become a Silver-level Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists (Daily Herald)
- Painted ponytails on various bike lane symbols in Provo, adding diverse gender representation to Provo streets
- Hosted a sold-out screening of Motherload with Director Liz Canning; held a well-attended cargo bike roundup the week after
- Collaborated with BYU civil engineering and urban planning professors to make our walking and biking tours assignments for their students
- Held service projects to clean up trash along University Avenue, Center Street, and Cougar Boulevard
- Hosted active transportation tours of Provo for BYU students and professors and Congressman John Curtis
- Hosted various community bike rides, including rides for International Women’s Day
2020
- Launched the #BikeWalkProvoStories project to showcase the diversity of people who get around Provo without a car
- Sent over 172 unique emails to and held a few meetings with Provo City officials to push them to work with BYU and UTA and finally install the planned UVX stop at 900 East and Heritage Drive
- Took several Provo City and state officials on walking and biking tours of central Provo
- Organized an unprecedented pandemic-era Bike to School Week in partnership with Provo City School District
- Organized a 100+ participant webinar about pedestrian safety with author Angie Schmitt (of Right of Way) in partnership with UDOT, BYU Geography, BYU Urban Planning, BYU Civil Engineering, and APA Utah
- Held several meetings with and wrote a joint letter to Mayor Kaufusi in support of pedestrian- and bike-friendly design changes to Center Street in collaboration with Downtown Provo, Inc; collected over 200 signatures in support and got several news articles published about it
- Installed dozens of bike racks at a Provo resident’s home, around downtown and at parks (in partnership with Provo City), and at Day’s Market
- Posted signs and spread the word about a potential extension of the Provo River Trail; helped dozens of people email UDOT’s Transportation Commission in support of the project which was then funded
- Created walking tour and biking tour routes and maps of central Provo
- Placed educational stickers on public bike racks around the city
- Organized opposition to a proposed 800/820 North road widening; got City Council to remove it from the Transportation Master Plan
- Held a screening of Motherload and cargo bike roundup in partnership with Provo Bicycle Collective
- Organized so much pro-walk pro-bike support at Provo City’s Transportation Master Plan Open House that the engineering department said public comments from that meeting were “invalid” and “heavily skewed”
- Carried out tactical urbanism on Center Street in partnership with Pioneer Book to slow cars down
2019
- Plowed the protected bike lanes on Cougar Boulevard to say thanks to Provo City
- Installed Bicycle Friendly Community signs on Cougar Boulevard
- Created a bike routes map of Provo City and BYU in partnership with Provo City and BYU
- Carried out a bike/walk count of Provo in partnership with Provo City
- Presented at the United Nations’ Civil Societies Conference in Salt Lake City
- Carried out a major tactical urbanism project on 300 West; wrote about it for Strong Towns
- Organized and hosted events for Bike Month, including Ride of Silence
- Signed the 2o0 East and 800 East neighborhood bikeways in partnership with Utah County Health Department
- Lobbied in support of bicycle- and pedestrian-only intersections that were installed in UDOT’s US-89 and UVX street improvement projects
- Organized public support for bicycle parking requirements in Provo City’s development code
- Presented at the Utah Bike Summit
2018
- Built a public pathway from 900 East to 800 East
- Took several Provo City and BYU officials on an active transportation tour of central Provo
- Organized public comment in support of a street rehabilitation project on Bulldog Boulevard; got city council to vote in support
- Organized “Clean the Air” protest rides to bring attention to biking for transportation
- Created and crowdsourced an inventory of bike parking in Provo
- Presented at the Utah Pedestrian Summit
Pre-2018
Advocated in support of:
- Pathways on Lakeview Drive
- Buffered bike lanes and multi-use path on 500 West
- A neighborhood bikeway on 200 East
- Bike lanes and a multi-use path on 300 South
- Bike lanes on 700 North
- Bike lane on Canyon Road
Other
- Applied for and achieved bronze and silver-level Bicycle Friendly Community status in partnership with Provo City
- Hosted countless events showcasing the fun of bicycling (Monday Night Night Ride, Provelo, FUFFR, Bike Month events, etc.)
- Helped found Provo Bicycle Collective in partnership with Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective
- Carried out tactical urbanism projects on 500 North, 100 South, and other places.
- Organized and hosted countless Bike Month events since 2000
- Successfully encouraged the City Council to adopt the Provo Bicycle Master Plan in 2013
- Provided a letters of support and dozens of volunteers to help with Provo Parks and Recreation’s Slate Canyon Bike Park and Provo River Trail grant-funded projects
- Hosted the Utah Bicycle Summit (and Gary Fisher) in partnership with Bike Utah in Provo in 2016
- Organized Bike to School Week events since 2011
- Supported BYU to become a Bicycle Friendly University (now at the bronze-level) through infrastructural improvements and programming
- Received Bike Utah’s Local Advocacy Award in 2016
AND SO MUCH MORE! Just scroll through our past blog posts dating back to 2013 to see what we’ve been up to.