Sustainable transportation planning, design & education
Welcome to our 2021 store! Clothing is available online through April 23, 2021, 10a.m. MST. It ships to you in 6-8 weeks. We want everyone to enjoy the ride. Hop on in! Here's the store link: https://custom.zootsports.com/CSP22737 This year we updated…
In November of 2020, SBI partnered with NM-LTAP to teach a three day online workshop for the New Mexico transportation workforce on facilitating walking and cycling in New Mexico. Files of each day's presentation are linked below. We are preparing…
If there is an upside to the coronavirus, it may be that we are rethinking how we live, and getting back some of what we had lost. --Christophe Tafforeau, quoted in "'Corona Cycleways' Become the New Post-Confinement Commute", New York…
“I’m very optimistic that this was one of the few silver linings...that people have found a way to make their lives better.” --Philip Brown, Elevation Cycles, Denver. There's a surge in cycling in the U.S and around the world, as…
"Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?"--Emerson, Nature Update April 1, 2020: New Mexico has designated bicycle shops as essential. Thanks to all for speaking to this important issue: https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2020/04/01/bicycle-repair-shops-named-essential/ Bicycle shops provide essential services for…
Conserving our lands and waters is essential to protecting humans and wildlife and stabilizing our climate, so I’m following the direction from leading scientists and introducing this resolution to set a national goal of conserving 30 percent of America’s land…
New Mexico is convening a State Summit for Safe Routes to School this April 17, 2020, elevating our commitment to our children and communities. RSVP by April 3rd to Ashleigh Curry (acurry@lcps.net), coordinator of Las Cruces Safe Routes to School…
“New Mexico has become a pioneer in developing state trust lands for outdoor lovers. 'Open for Adventure' elevates and advances the state's vision of uniting our incredible lands with education experiences for the next generation." --Axie Navas, Director of Outdoor…
I am large. I contain multitudes. --Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass There's a new bicycling event in Albuquerque called "Slow Roll 505". I participated in the June 10th ride around the Barelas neighborhood and had…
I was riding with Zach up Gutierrez Canyon and he said, "If cycling was a pill, everybody would be taking it." That's a neat saying, but after pondering it for a while, I thought cycling is way more fun than…
Southwest Bike Initiative 