Venice maintains Silver Bicycle Friendly status, wins Florida Trail Town designation; board names liaison

Darlene Culpepper, the city’s bicycle and pedestrian coordinator, told the Citizen Advisory Board that Venice maintained its Silver Bicycle Friendly Community designation from the League of American Bicyclists and received a Trail Town designation from the Florida Greenways and Trails Foundation.

Culpepper said the League’s report card included two pages of feedback and “recommendations to move to the next standard of gold,” and singled out a straightforward change she expects the city could implement: adopting a bike-rack standard by ordinance so racks installed by businesses or the city meet a consistent design and safety standard. “That’s something that’s a very easy fix that we can most likely get council to, if you make that recommendation to them,” she said.

The coordinator reported a ground-breaking…