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FM Area Named Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community
The League of American Bicyclists recognized the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area with a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community (BFCSM) award on Tuesday, November 18, joining more than 325 visionary communities from across the country.
With the announcement of 55 new and renewing BFCs today, the FM Area joins a leading group of communities, in all 50 states, that are transforming our neighborhoods.
“Visionary community leaders are recognizing the real-time and long term impact that a culture of bicycling can create,” said Andy Clarke, President of the League of American Bicyclists. “We applaud this new round of communities for investing in a more sustainable future for the country and a healthier future for their residents and beyond.”
The BFC program is revolutionizing the way communities evaluate their quality of life, sustainability and transportation networks, while allowing them to benchmark their progress toward improving their bicycle-friendliness. With this impressive round, there are now 326 BFCs in all 50 states. The Bronze BFC award recognizes the FM Area’s commitment to improving conditions for bicycling through investment in bicycling promotion, education programs, infrastructure and pro-bicycling policies.
“With the recent additions to our bicycle network, organization of events such as Streets Alive!, a planned bike share program, and more, the FM Area is becoming more and more bicycle friendly,” notes Dan Farnsworth, Transportation Planner with the Fargo-Moorhead Metro Council of Governments (Metro COG). “As we look to the future we hope to continue to make the FM Area more bicycle friendly, with cyclist and driver education being one of the top priorities.” One of the tools used to educate and inform the public regarding cycling is a website created last year named BikeFM (www.bikefm.org).
The application was submitted for the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area which combined the cities of West Fargo, Fargo, Moorhead, and Dilworth as one metropolitan community. The application was completed by Metro COG with help from area cities, bicycle advocates, and bicycle organizations such as Bike MN.
Both the FM Area and Greater Grand Forks were named Bronze Bicycle Friendly Communities yesterday making them the first communities in North Dakota to receive the award. Currently 15 communities in Minnesota have received Bicycle Friendly status from the League of American Bicyclists. Minnesota has been named the second most bicycle friendly state by the League of American Bicyclists.
The BFC program provides a roadmap to building a Bicycle Friendly Community and the application itself has become a rigorous and an educational tool in itself. Since its inception, more than 800 distinct communities have applied and the five levels of the award - diamond, platinum, gold, silver and bronze - provide a clear incentive for communities to continuously improve.