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Initial results from ABC's first-ever bicycle counts conducted last week are in, and they're being covered in the local news. Check out the front page of Metro section in the AJC, or listen for a story on the counts on WABE today between 4-5 pm. These counts were the first step in establishing a baseline of data to measure trends in Atlanta bicycling.

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Part of what we do to help make it easier for you to cycle in and around Atlanta is to provide route and area maps, both as hardcopy, available at our office and our public event tables, and in digital form at our website maps and routes page. We have recently extended our map offerings with a couple of new additions.

CNN reporter T. J. Holmes reports on motivations behind the rising trend in alternative commuting in this video which features Atlanta Bicycle Campaign Executive Director, Rebecca Serna, and her morning commute into the ABC office. The report includes interviews with participants from the Downtown TMA, the Clean Air Campaign and alternative commuters who attended the ABC-sponsored BikeFest May 16.

You may have noticed that ABC is appearing more and more in local, national and even international media. Thanks to ABC Share the Road Project Manager Erica Crabb Moon for helping to arrange this and other coverage!

ABC board member Byron Rushing has let us know that the League of American Bicyclists is encouraging its members - and presumably cyclists at large - to respond to this CNN iReport request to "show us your commute". In particular, if you live in a Bicycle Friendly Community, designated by the League of American Bicyclists, be sure to mention how bicycling has encouraged you to fight gas prices or to improve your physical and mental well-being. Thanks, Byron!

Bike Emory's innovative bike sharing and encouragement programs were recently featured on an 11 Alive news story picked up by 15 affiliates nationwide. Watch the video here.

Talk about alternative energy! What would you say to a bicycle-powered ABC float in the Atlanta Pride Celebration parade this July 6? Ruth Stanford, a valued volunteer and professor in the Georgia State University Welch School of Art and Design, has offered to lead the way. We need your help designing, building and powering the float. Sign up using our volunteer contact form. Thanks!

You say you want the powers-that-be to pay attention to bicycling in Atlanta - more bike lanes and paths and full integration of bike routes into a comprehensive Atlanta transit network, for example. Well, here is your opportunity - actually 7 opportunities - to speak out and be heard.

If you care about the future of bicycling in Atlanta, especially bicycling as a transportation alternative, please attend one of the upcoming Transportation Public Meetings for the Connect Atlanta Plan. This will be the city's first master transportation plan and you can be a part of it!