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Gold Award for Austin from American Bicycling Association?

I am not sure if anyone has heard of this but it may be having an impact on police officers under reporting or failing to cite motorists after hitting cyclists in Austin.  The gold award may have more to do with bicycle routes than safety but more likely than not if in fact Austin is working to become the first recipient of this "award"-Austin has to make cycling safer.
Does anyone know of this award and if so, what is the criteria?

MichaelBluejay

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Re: Gold Award for Austin from American Bicycling Association?

I'm very sorry no one has replied to your message before now.  I just now noticed it again and see that no one had replied.

Anyway, I think you're talking about the League of American Bicyclists, not the American Cycling Association (which is strictly sports/rec).  I looked it up and I don't see that Austin got LAB's gold award in 2008.  I do see that Austin got a silver award, in 2009:

http://www.bikeleague.org/members/pdfs/ … rapr09.pdf

Here's the application, which gives some clues as to the criteria:

http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/bicy … /apply.php

Not surprisingly, they don't ask about how well at-fault motorists are ticketed, arrested, prosecuted, and convicted.

They *do* ask whether the community has a mandatory helmet law.  I wonder whether having one increases or decreases an applicant's score?