WELCOME TO NORMAL ... A Bicycle Friendly Community!
The Town of Normal is proud to offer high-quality bicycle facilities for residents and visitors alike. To ensure the community continues to improve bicycle and pedestrian facilities, the Town in 2020 approved a Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan Update. The Town was also recognized in 2014 and 2018 by the League of American Bicyclists as a Bronze Level Bicycle Friendly Community, joining more than 325 visionary communities from across the country. The designation is valid for four years.
The Bicycle Friendly Community program is revolutionizing the way communities evaluate their quality of life, sustainability and transportation networks, while allowing them to benchmark their progress toward improving their bicycle-friendliness. There are hundreds of Bicycle Friendly Communities across all 50 states. The Bronze Level award recognizes Normal’s commitment to improving conditions for bicycling through investment in bicycling promotion, education programs, infrastructure and pro-bicycling policies.
The program provides a roadmap to building a Bicycle Friendly Community and the application itself has become a rigorous and an educational tool in itself. Since its inception, more than 800 distinct communities have applied and the five levels of the award – diamond, platinum, gold, silver and bronze – provide a clear incentive for communities to continuously improve.
To learn more, visit Bicycle Friendly America.
