{"id":12657,"date":"2015-04-23T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/?page_id=12657"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T23:26:46","slug":"bike-advocate-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/advocacy\/bike-advocate-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Advocate Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in our bicycle advocate toolkit we&#8217;ll post ideas for actions you can take to grow and enhance bicycling in your community and resources you can use as a starting point. <a title=\"Sign up for E-News!\" href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/sign-e-news\/\">Sign up for our e-news<\/a> and you&#8217;ll receive news about state and local advocacy and events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us when you take action for better bicycling by tagging us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WAbikes\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BikeWA\/\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong> so we can highlight your efforts here to inspire others. Learn from others and share your success at the annual <a title=\"Washington Bike Summit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cascade.org\/summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Bike Summit<\/a>\u00a0presented by Cascade Bicycle Club and sponsored by Washington Bikes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bike Month or Bike to Work Week proclamation:<\/strong> Ask your mayor and city council to proclaim May <strong>Bike Month<\/strong> in your town. Let reporters know when the proclamation will be voted on and bring people who represent all kinds of bicycling to accept the proclamation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Proclaiming National Bicycle Month in [Your Town Here]!\" href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2016\/04\/22\/will-your-town-celebrate-bike-month-with-a-proclamation\/\">Our blog post with a little more detail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sample-Bike-Month-Proclamation.docx\">Sample-Bike-Month-Proclamation<\/a> (Word doc)\n<ul>\n<li>Download the document and editor for your local context. Contact us for updates to statewide information such as our Bicycle Friendly State ranking (#1 2008-2015; results announced each year in\u00a0May).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Bike Challenge<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">: Start a local <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" title=\"Bike Month Challenges in Washington State\" href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/growing-bicycling\/resources\/bike-month-challenges-in-washington-state\/\">commute or &#8220;bike to everything&#8221; challenge<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">. We hold the <a href=\"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/growing-bicycling\/resources\/bike-month-challenges-in-washington-state\/challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BikeEverywhere Challenge<\/a>, which you can use if your community doesn&#8217;t hold a local one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What should we add to this page?<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:vicky@wabikes.org?subject=Bike Advocate Toolkit web page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Email<\/a>\u00a0Vicky Clarke\u00a0with your questions and ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in our bicycle advocate toolkit we&#8217;ll post ideas for actions you can take to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5516,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12657","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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