RVA Bike Month presented by Bon Secours is back for the sixth year with a theme of ‘Bikes Mean Business’! We’ve got over 50 events coming up over the next five weeks, and all the event info is over on www.rvabikemonth.com! Highlights of the calendar include the always-popular Pizza Crawl, Black Girls Do Bike’s kickoff ride, the Better Housing Coalition […]

By: Louise Lockett Gordon, Director of Bike Walk RVA Central Virginia is no stranger to the concept of a multi-use trail. Construction of the 51.7 mile Virginia Capital Trail, which courses through Richmond, Henrico County, Charles City County, and Williamsburg, was completed in 2015 and experiences about 1,000 daily trail users. Every day people are out on the trail biking […]

When Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney signed a commitment to Vision Zero, the international movement to reduce traffic fatalities to the only acceptable number of zero, he knew it would involve infrastructure improvements. Following Vision Zero best practices, his Department of Public Works transportation team has been busy installing crosswalks, bike lanes, and reducing speed limits in areas on the […]