Massachusetts is about to release a new bikeway guide and it's going to be awesome
September 18, 2015
Images from MassDOT Separated Bike Lane Planning and Design Guide and from this slideshow. ...
Denverites say they'd shop more on Broadway with a protected bike lane
September 15, 2015
From Portland to New York to Salt Lake City, the story is the same: the less a street resembles a freeway, the likelier people are to spend money there. ...
A new future for bicycling in Indianapolis
August 5, 2015
Why is the city best known as the home of the biggest car race in the country investing in bicycling? Hmmm. We’ll make this multiple choice: ...
Austin plans two more protected intersections just outside downtown
June 11, 2015
Austin, already one of the nation’s leaders in the use of protected intersections, announced this week that it’s considering two more. ...
In Seattle, fold-down posts can take a punch while protecting bike lanes
June 11, 2015
As American cities have looked for simple, cheap ways to get physical barriers between bikes and cars, they’ve been reminded of a sad truth: you get what you pay for. ...
Tech Talk: Drainage on an elevated protected bike lane
May 13, 2015
Though puddles can occasionally have their upsides, generally speaking they’re one of the ancient enemies of the bike lane. ...
Queens teens push for protected bikeway to reconnect their peninsula
March 25, 2015
When Jocelyn Dicent walks home from school, she has a choice between two streets. ...
Bike lane philosophy: Are you an incrementalist or a completionist?
January 28, 2015
A lot of arguments in the world of progressive street design these days aren’t between good and bad. They’re between better and much better. This comes up again and again in the endless and usually fun arguments the bike-oriented Internet is always having with itself. ...
The thrilling future of traffic engineering
January 5, 2015
James Bond needs a Q. Scooby-Doo needs a Velma. Katniss Everdeen needs a Beetee. ...
Video: How Pittsburgh became a national model for rapid bikeway progress
November 19, 2014
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Persistence pays off in western Pennsylvania
November 6, 2014
The theme for today is persistence. Webster?s defines it as, ?the quality that allows someone to continue doing something or trying to do something even though it is difficult or opposed by other people.? ...
How Denver got an oil company to help crowdfund a protected bike lane
November 4, 2014
Need money for a better bike lane? Try asking the Internet. ...
Atlanta plans big for bikes, and Atlantans turn out big time
October 16, 2014
The capital of the New South is working on its latest highway network. ...
Baby on Board: 10 Tips for Riding While Pregnant
October 7, 2014
People rarely bat an eye at women doing tree poses in yoga while seven months pregnant, but taking to two wheels with a baby on board solicits everything from cheers to disapproving looks and cautionary tales. So what does this mean for pregnant bicyclists? Does a positive pregnancy test mean hangin ...
How Copenhagen helped Pittsburgh's Mayor Peduto understand the 'wedding cake of transportation'
September 22, 2014
For years, we’ve been leading politicians, city staffers and other community leaders from U.S. cities on curated study tours of the world’s best biking cities. But until Bill Peduto joined us in Denmark and Sweden this summer, we’d never had the chance to host a big-city mayor. ...
10 years ago next month, this letter to the NYT foresaw New York's biking triumph
September 4, 2014
This seems like a particularly good week to share the very first time protected bike lanes were mentioned in The New York Times. ...
Business leaders cheer protected bike lanes into busy downtown Pittsburgh
August 26, 2014
Downtown Pittsburgh has a perfectly good reason to be running out of room for more cars: its streets have been there since 1784. ...
Seattle holds bike lane open house right on the street,draws just as many people
August 22, 2014
No time to invite the neighborhood to your project’s open house? This week Seattle brought the open house to the neighborhood instead. ...
Can Chicago hit 30 miles of green lanes before the snow flies?
August 7, 2014
We don’t have to dream of a country where protected bike lanes and other quality bike infrastructure have dramatically improved life for people in poverty. We can visit it. ...