Bicycle Mayor Q&A - What is a Bicycle Mayor, and how can YOU become Bicycle Mayor for your area? - CycleSpace

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What is the Bicycle Mayor Program?

The Bicycle Mayor Program is a global initiative to locally represent and accelerate the progress of cycling in cities.

Together all the Bicycle Mayors form the Global Bicycle Mayor Network. They work together to show the momentum in the development of cycling.

Bicycle Mayors are the face and voice of cycling in a city. They are independent catalysts that show the economic, health and environmental benefits that cycling brings to their city.

Cities around the world can join this global network, by working with Cyclespace to find and install the role of the Bicycle Mayor in their city.

What do Bicycle Mayors do?

Bicycle Mayors are not activists but catalysts - they work with citizens and city stakeholders to ensure all voices are responded to. They try to develop positive relations between cycling organisations, residents, businesses and City Hall.

Bicycle Mayors listen to the local needs and identify solutions to local problems and promote the many benefits of cycling to make this solutions become reality.

The exact role of each Mayor will vary according to the local challenges and opportunities in that city. The time required, the funding they can access and the way the Mayor works with local partners will all vary - in some cities, for example, the Mayor may even have a different title, to align with local custom.

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Bicycle Mayor Q&A - What is a Bicycle Mayor, and how can YOU become Bicycle Mayor for your area? - CycleSpace

MoBikeFed comment: The international Bicycle Mayors program could be an interesting way to approach bicycle advocacy in Missouri--particularly in our many medium-sized and smaller suburban and rural communities but in the larger cities, too.

It emphasizes the power of one passionate individual to develop consensus in the community and create real change.

If you think you might be interested in becoming a Bicycle Mayor in Missouri, contact us - director@mobikefed.org