This is National Bike Month 2018 and a great time to reflect on the benefits of bicycling as far as health, the environment, and return on investment for investing in bike infrastructure such as bike lanes and adding more outdoor bicycle racks. These numbers will get your wheels spinning: A Huge Group of Citizens are Bicyclists: Number of people who bicycled in the US in 2016 - 45.9 million. Seniors are Hopping on their Bikes More Often: Some people are saying, "Bicycling is the new Golf." Big Trend: Bike Trips have Doubled: From 1990 to 2009, the number of bike trips in the US doubled from 1.8 to 4 billion per year. Want to

Space-saving UpLift Bicycle Racks are featured at the Griffin School in Austin, Texas

A prestigious private high school in Texas recently installed The Park and Facilities Catalog's new, space-saving Uplift bicycle racks.

The Griffin School is a popular and fully accredited private high school in Austin, Texas with a unique approach to learning.

In an open letter, one of the founders and school director Adam Wilson outlined the school's philosophy, "Griffin School provides students with a high school program that values individuality, creativity, and community. We recognize that for

The Park Catalog's newly invented commercial bike rack called the "UpLift" was featured in an article on the Palm Beach County Business Development website

The Park and Facilities Catalog was recently mentioned in an article on the Palm Beach County's Economic Development Resource website about the company's successful invention of a commercial bike rack called the UpLift.

The site is operated by the 

With a record number of bicyclists in America today, it would be wise for cities to seek a "bike friendly" designation by adding more bike lanes and bike parking racks

Is your city a  bicycle-friendly community with plenty of bike lanes, bike parking racks, and safer streets? It can mean the difference between getting with the times or having people avoid living in your city altogether.

Bicycle commuting is on the rise. Since 2005, the share of bicycle commuters increased at a national average of 46%, but some states have seen an increase of more than 100%. This is good for everyone, but especially the environment and the health of individuals within the community.

Bicycle commuters are so passionate about continuing to bike to

"Road diet" cities place more emphasis on pedestrians and bicycles than cars. Photo source: Sixthreezero.co

Whether you recognize it or not, wide, open roads psychologically trick you into driving a little faster and that is why cities are deciding to go on a "road diet."

Many roads in America are designed to accommodate a significant number of cars moving quickly, but sometimes the road is wider than is really necessary.

Downtown main streets are especially effected by this. As areas of high pedestrian activity, they are usually not accommodating to foot traffic or bicyclists, with high-speed roads and wide lanes taking up all of the space, leaving narrow sidewalks as an afterthought.

If drivers naturally feel like they need to increase their speed because the