Two-day demo will reclaim one of Atlanta's most celebrated streets for people
June 13, 2014
Fifty years after a freeway sliced through one of the country’s wealthiest black communities and left it out to dry, the neighborhood is trying a new way to serve its seniors. ...
Tech Talk: No room for a buffer? Try a wheel stop barrier
May 13, 2014
Street designers know that every inch of a roadway is precious. And though more inches are better when it comes to low-stress streets, sometimes they just aren’t there. ...
The rise of American protected bike lanes: The 4-minute video introduction
April 30, 2014
Part of what we do here at the Green Lane Project is show our fellow Americans what we’re missing. ...
Indy celebrates a bikeshare win
April 24, 2014
In the business world, it’s called “first mover advantage.” It’s the head start Apple got in the smartphone market because it invented the device. ...
The big idea behind bike projects and the Memphis rebound
April 22, 2014
This week in Memphis, three of the country’s most interesting urban planners are giving a series of free lectures about the big, smart idea behind the deliberate, data-driven revitalization strategy that has led this city to embrace bike infrastructure. ...
Celebrate NYC's latest biking win
April 16, 2014
The George Washington Bridge is a critical link in greater New York City’s bicycle network. Commuter and recreational bike traffic over the bridge has grown so much that recent counts show nearly as many bicyclists as motorists on Rte. 9W north of the bridge! ...
Young people in Indianapolis want low-car lifestyles almost as much as young people in NYC
April 14, 2014
In the business world, it’s called “first mover advantage.” It’s the head start Apple got in the smartphone market because it invented the device. ...
Pacers Bikeshare launches in Indianapolis this week
April 14, 2014
This Tuesday, Indianapolis officially joins urban meccas like Paris, New York and Chicago as a leading city with bikeshare. ...
Indianapolis becomes first city to get NBA-backed bikeshare
April 7, 2014
How stoked would you be if someone told you that you were going to get 250 new bikes? Well, that’s exactly what just happened in Indianapolis! Last Friday, the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, Inc. announced exciting details about a new bikeshare program coming to Indianapolis in a few weeks. ...
Four simple lessons from Austin's brilliant bike plan update
April 3, 2014
In the tech boomtown of Austin, data is king — and city staffers are making some of the country’s strongest data-driven arguments for better bike infrastructure. ...
How high can they go? DC bike counts show continuing surge in protected lane use
March 31, 2014
The older DC’s first two protected bike lanes get, the more spectacular their results seem to become. ...
Indianapolis' GOP mayor on bikes and the 'great revival' of US cities
March 27, 2014
The mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard, sounds like the Republican he is when he makes the case for urban bike infrastructure. ...
From DC,a better way to think about businesses and bike lane battles
March 17, 2014
Eventually, everyone redesigning city streets runs into the same problem: small businesses rarely support changes to the roads that bring them customers. ...
Hygge sighting: The little idea that built Denmark pops up in Austin
March 6, 2014
Would you describe riding a bicycle on a large street in the middle of a major city as “cozy”? ...
Tech Talk: Latest innovations may make it dirt cheap to color streets
January 29, 2014
As more and more U.S. cities embrace color as a way to make bike lanes visible, especially at intersections, a very important group of people are taking notice: the ones who figure out how to color things. ...
A poor SF neighborhood rallies for less auto parking
January 13, 2014
The trick to scoring community support for less auto parking on a street isn’t to get hell to freeze or pigs to fly. As a new project in San Francisco is proving, sometimes all you have to do is ask residents what they want. ...
'The private sector understands opportunity': How Portland scored its latest biking win
January 4, 2014
On Monday, we shared the almost shockingly good news from Portland that a protected bike lane has helped catalyze a massive bike-friendly private development nearby. The story of this project and the way it’s helping create a “second downtown” on Portland’s east side was one of the most exciting sto ...
Denver tech companies: 'The No. 1 thing they want is bike lanes'
October 31, 2013
The single biggest obstacle to recruiting tech workers to Denver is its lack of good bike lanes, the head of the city’s downtown business association said this month. ...
Why Atlanta is poised to go big for bicycling
October 24, 2013
Move over, Portland and watch out, San Francisco. There’s a new American Bike City on the horizon and she’s closing in fast. ...
Memphis is about to build the country's first crowdfunded bike lane
October 15, 2013
The most interesting bike project in the country just keeps getting more creative. ...