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Consider Biking’s Advocacy Earns Columbus Rank as Sustainable City

Columbus skylineSmarter Cities, a Natural Resource Defense Council project that examines cities’ progress towards environmental sustainability, ranked Columbus in its top fifteen because of its commitment to being bicycle friendly. The Bicentennial Bikeways Plan calls to double the city’s 50 miles of bike lanes and trails by the city’s bicentennial in 2012 and sets goals for 200 miles of paths connecting greenways and activity centers by 2018 and 1,000 new bike racks by 2028. The plan is a result of the advocacy efforts of Alliance organization Consider Biking.

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