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From Bike Virginia’s Executive Director, Kimberly Perry:
Effective January 1, 2012, BikeWalk Virginia changed its name to Bike Virginia. This name change reflects the statewide, non-profit organization’s desire to focus its resources on bicycling and making Virginia a more bicycle-friendly state.
“There were three key reasons behind the decision to change our name,” said Dr. Kimberly Perry Executive Director. “First, we came to realize that because of the success of our Bike Virginia Tour event, most people here in Virginia, as well as bicyclists across the country, already knew us as Bike Virginia. Second, over the years we’ve learned that advocating for bicycle and pedestrian issues often led us down different paths and there simply was not as much synergy in addressing both interests as we originally thought. Third, many towns and cities already have well-organized bicycle clubs and advocacy groups and we felt we could accomplish much more by focusing our work with and through them.”
“We are excited about both the name change and our sharper focus” said Tom Bowden, Board Chair of Bike Virginia and a frequent bicycle commuter to his office in downtown Richmond. “While a recent survey conducted by the League of American Bicyclists ranked Virginia as the 11th most bicycle friendly state in the country, we know a lot more can be done. Our goal is to work with organizations and individuals across the state to improve this ranking.”
You’ll also see our domain name change and there will be a refresh of our website soon. A visit to our Resource Website gives a preview of what’s to come as we focus our website in on bicycling education and advocacy.
A logo change is also in the near future too. We are inviting the community to get involved. The logo will be selected from entries in a logo contest held on Design Crowd.
The mission of Bike Virginia continues to be encouraging riding through events and activities, through educating communities about the benefit of bicycling, and teaching communities strategies for being bicycle friendly. We will also continue to work on legislative matters that serve to improve cycling. As we move forward we will be working on new projects and continuing of our existing bicycle related projects including the Bike Virginia Tour, the Online Resource Tool-kit, Sunrise Grants, and Bike Smart Training, Bike Month, Bike to Work Day, Share the Road Campaign, and Awareness Week in September 2012.
Stay tuned to information on our new mission and our update image on our Website.
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