Crowdsourced Bike Planning in Blacksburg

Blacksburg is abuzz with bike planning these days. The New River Valley Bicycle Association, Town of Blacksburg, and Geospatial IT Dept. at Virginia Tech have teamed up to create a web-based interactive bike map, where cyclists can document their everyday trips. The data collected will help identify which roads and other infrastructure should be improved to accommodate cyclists. Most needed are continuous, contiguous routes through downtown, to make commuting and errands by bike more appealing. The NRVBA has the story.