Advocacy

Desired Outcomes:

More children walking and biking to school

Increased Share the Road signs on highways

Bicycle stencils painted on paved bike lanes

An integrated bicycle path numbering system for the basin

Bike racks at businesses, recreation areas and public buildings

Incentives for employees to bike to work

The towns of Tahoe City, Kings Beach, Incline Village and Truckee becoming designated as Bicycle Friendly Communities

A connected bike path/lane around the Lake

We the members of the Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition envision a Lake Tahoe bioregion that is healthy and sustainable for thousands of years to come. We see Tahoe as a model community that effectively integrates and balances the needs and resources of people, economy and the environment.

We see people wanting to live here because the principles, values and commitments being expressed here matches those qualities and characteristics that they too most care about – health, creativity and fit active lives. We see visitors coming here to immerse themselves in The Tahoe Experience and having their lives enriched as a result.

And we see moving our community toward this vision by championing bicycling as our vehicle. The bicycle is one of the greatest human-powered inventions in modern times -- it is the ‘Ultimate Green Machine’. Nearly everyone, at some time in their life, has ridden a bicycle and can recall their sense of joy, freedom and aliveness.

We are promoting bicycling as the healthy ecological way to build the body politic, the personal body and the vital body of this region.

The LTBC takes a stand for this vision by advocating the following:

Creating more people-centric communities
Connecting communities with a comprehensive bicycle path network that is safe and easy to use
Improve air and water quality by reducing auto dependence
Revitalize the economy with eco-tourism programs
Educating and modeling healthy and sustainable behaviors by living fit active lifestyles, and
Producing and promoting experience-based events, programs and conferences

We advance these activities by:

Voicing our views at City, County and State governing agencies
Making presentations to professional service groups and community leaders
Collaborating with environmental groups
Partnering with businesses and transportation agencies
Conducting media and public relations campaigns

Join our advocacy efforts by:
Becoming a Member
Actively Volunteering
Making a Donation
Riding Your Bike