Charleston Civic Design Center Awarded Silver Bicycle Friendly Business by the League of American Bicyclists

CHARLESTON, SC – September 23, 2010M – The Charleston Civic Design Center (CCDC) is proud to announce that it has been awarded Silver designation as a Bicycle Friendly Business (BFB) by the League of American Bicyclists, one of an impressive group of 63 new BFB, and the first Lowcountry business to achieve BFB recognition. The official announcement was made in Las Vegas on September 23 at Interbike, North America’s largest bicycle trade event and show. The League is especially excited to recognize the Charleston Civic Design Center as a 2010 Fall BFB. As an agency of the City of Charleston, the CCDC is leading the way to encourage biking to work. They are setting a community-wide example,” said Andy Clarke, League President. 

Businesses that apply for the award are contributing to a more bicycle-friendly lifestyle for their employees. The CCDC serves as an example for best practices and innovations in bicycle friendliness at the workplace by making bicycling an easy option for daily transportation and providing innovative incentives to support employee’s more sustainable transportation choices.

“This Bicycle Friendly Business is making a difference for employees, customers, and communities,” said Bill Nesper, Director of the Bicycle Friendly America Program. “The Charleston Civic Design Center promotes bicycling as a viable form of transportation and gives their employees choices and options that make biking to work easy and fun.”  

There are a lot of very simple, effective and creative ways that companies are finding to get people back on their bikes, and the League is proud to recognize the efforts of working America to make our nation a more bike-friendly place. Companies across the country are realizing that when bicycling is infused in a company’s culture, great things happen: reduced health care costs; more productive employees; improved worker and customer satisfaction; smaller carbon footprint; and increased corporate social responsibility. 

For the CCDC, supporting and promoting bicycling is just one more initiative in its mission to demonstrate leadership and innovation in urban design. The CCDC upholds its belief that bicycling is the most efficient and lowest impact form of transportation, and continues to support any opportunity to improve bicycle facilities, usability and knowledge. City of Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. applauded the BFB Silver designation: “The Charleston Civic Design Center is integrally involved in the City’s efforts to help to make bicycling in Charleston safer, more convenient, more desirable, and more common for all of our citizens.”

League of American Bicyclists

The League of American Bicyclists promotes bicycling for fun, fitness and transportation, and works through advocacy and education for a bicycle-friendly America. The League represents the interests of America’s 57 million bicyclists, including its 300,000 members and affiliates. For more information or to support the League, visit www.bikeleague.org