{"id":801683,"date":"2019-11-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=374866"},"modified":"2019-11-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T19:00:00","slug":"breckenridge-named-bicycle-friendly-community-by-the-league-of-american-bicyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/breckenridge-named-bicycle-friendly-community-by-the-league-of-american-bicyclists\/","title":{"rendered":"Breckenridge named Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/BikeGuideBlueRiverRecPath-sdn-071517-1-1240x908.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/BikeGuideBlueRiverRecPath-sdn-071517-1-1240x908.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/BikeGuideBlueRiverRecPath-sdn-071517-1-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/BikeGuideBlueRiverRecPath-sdn-071517-1-325x238.jpg 325w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/BikeGuideBlueRiverRecPath-sdn-071517-1-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/07\/BikeGuideBlueRiverRecPath-sdn-071517-1-620x454.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>The Frisco stretch of the Blue River Recpath between Breckenridge and Frisco.<\/strong><br \/><em>Phil Lindeman \/ plindeman@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 The League of American Bicyclists awarded Breckenridge with its gold-level Bicycle Friendly Community award. Breckenridge joined 488 designated Bicycle Friendly Communities in receiving this award, which is given to communities that show commitment to improving biking conditions through education, events, bike-friendly policies and proper infrastructure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunities like Breckenridge are leading the nation when it comes to important livability factors that people want where they call home, like safe and accessible places to bike,\u201d League of American Bicyclists Executive Director Bill Nesper said in a statement. \u201cOur nation and globe are facing complex public health and road safety challenges, and we\u2019re proud that Breckenridge and communities like it are embracing bicycling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be recognized at the gold-level, the third level designated by the League of American Bicyclists, Breckenridge had to show collaboration between biking and law enforcement, possess bike-friendly town ordinances, demonstrate public education and outreach, offer bike access to public transportation, and have a balance of arterial bike lanes and bike paths, in addition to other safety standards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/breckenridge-named-bicycle-friendly-community-by-the-league-of-american-bicyclists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Frisco stretch of the Blue River Recpath between Breckenridge and Frisco.Phil Lindeman \/ plindeman@summitdaily.com BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 The League of American Bicyclists awarded Breckenridge with its gold-level Bicycle Friendly Community award. Breckenridge joined 488 designated Bicycle Friendly Communities in receiving this award, which is given to communities that show commitment to improving biking conditions through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-801683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 22:44:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}