Activiate Asheville is a wide-ranging group of Asheville area organizations that has joined together to encourage people in our community to get moving and live healthier. We are dedicated to making Asheville and the surrounding area the healthiest communities in North Carolina.

Asheville On Bikes

Blue Ridge Commuter Connections is Western North Carolina's commuter assistance program, to assist you with a smoother commute.

The Bicycle Friendly Community Campaign is an awards program that recognizes municipalities that actively support bicycling and is administered by the The League of American Bicyclists.

The Blue Ridge Bicycle Club

The City of Asheville has available a North Carolina Bicycle Commuter's Guide. To request a printed copy of the guide contact Kathy Molin, Transportation Demand Coordinator. Her telephone number is 828-232-4564 and her email address is KMolin@ashevillenc.gov. The guides are free to the Asheville public. They can also be picked up at local bicycle shops and the chamber of commerce or city hall in the engineering office on the first floor to the left of the elevators.

City of Asheville Pedestrian plan.

The Coalition of Asheville Neighborhood Associations

French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization has many resources about local transportation issues.

Healthy Buncombe is a coalition on individuals and organizations interested in making policy changes that will enable our citizens to be more healthy and fit.

"How to Not Get Hit by Cars". Important lessons in bicycle safety.

International Safe Routes to Schools Program

Land-of-Sky Regional Council has released a Priority Needs List for the 2011-2017 Transportation Impprovement Program. The list is open for public comment and the council encourages folks to look at the list.

The League of Illinois Bicyclists, with funding from the Illinois Department of Transportation, has a nearly seven-minute video on motorist-bicyclist safety.

North Carolina Dept of Transportation Division of Bicycle & Pedestrian Transportation has a wealth of information about bicycling in NC and the NC Safe Routes to School Program. Go here to register for the SRTS regional workshops being held across the state in October.

The City of Olympia Washington has an informative site including cycling, walking, and roundabouts (traffic circles).

A video on the rights and duties of bicyclists is on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU4nKKq02BU. Among other things, it shows bicyclists how to ride in traffic, including controlling the lane and using left turn lanes to turn left.

Want to know how walkable your neighborhood-or prospective neighborhood-is? WalkScore.com, a website that calculates a community's "walkability" rating, can help.