by Mark | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog
E-Bike Bill Passes House Transportation Committee On Tuesday, the Iowa House Transportation Committee passes House Study Bill 80 that regulates E-Bikes 19-0. The bill adds 3-wheels to the conventional bike classification and establishes a 3-tiered e-bike system and...
by Mark | Feb 5, 2021 | Blog
Legislative Forums are a productive way to learn if your legislator will support bicycle and traffic safety issues that are important to you. These forums are usually under-attended by the same people. If you and your bicycling friends show up, you can be a...
by Mark | Jan 26, 2021 | Blog
An Iowa House panel moved forward legislation to address distracted driving. House Study Bill 82 aims to add distracted driving to one of the required topics in the driver education curriculum. The bill simply changes the required “substance abuse” part...
by Mark | Jan 20, 2021 | Blog, Iowa Bicycle Summit
Register today for the virtual Iowa Bicycle Summit on January 29 at www.iowabicyclesummit.com/register. Our schedule now includes Colin Harris who will present on the Quick Build Guide. In this presentation, we will share a new Quick-Build Guide for quickly and...
by Mark | Jan 20, 2021 | Blog
The Iowa Bicycle Coalition staff and lobbyists had a busy day at the Iowa Capitol working on bike and traffic safety policy legislation. The day began with a “super speeder” bill aimed to make the unintentional or intentional death caused by speeding 25...
by Mark | Jan 16, 2021 | Blog
After 16 years of in-person conferences, we are moving the Iowa Bicycle Summit online, but we are combining all of our winter events into one big celebration of bicycling. The Iowa Bicycle Summit is now a multi-day combination of the: Iowa Safe Routes to School...
