San Francisco architect: Better bike lanes = higher land value
October 10, 2013
David Baker, founder and principal at David Baker + Partners Architects, was dubbed “a starchitect for the common man” for his firm’s work designing green buildings and innovative housing complexes. ...
Tech Talk: 19 beautiful ways to protect bike lanes (photos)
October 4, 2013
In the grammar of street design, bollards — those plastic posts that are used to block cars from entering many protected bike lanes — are the commas. ...
Data confirms it: DC is the new U.S. bike city to watch
October 2, 2013
Well, Washington DC isn’t working the way it’s supposed to. But one thing in the District definitely has been: its local bike transportation policy. ...
Tech Talk: Using planters as separation
June 27, 2013
We’ve been sharing this photo of Portland’s NE Multnomah protected bike lane in our presentations. We love the use of the planters as part of the separation between the car lane and the bike lane. We’ve been asked how planters can be justified from an engineering standpoint, as they could be conside ...
Green Lane Project officially kicks off in Chicago
May 31, 2013
Bikes Belong’s Green Lane Project is officially kicking off tomorrow, May 31, in Chicago. This initiative will work with Austin, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, Ore., San Francisco and Washington, D.C., to support the cities? development of world-class bicycling facility networks over the next two years ...
Memphis announces major initiatives for protected bike lanes
May 8, 2013
The city named as one of the worst for biking in the U.S. by Bicycling Magazine only five years ago is now aiming to be the best in Tennessee. Memphis Mayor AC Wharton announced groundbreaking plans today to implement a network of protected bike facilities as a part of their commitment to the Green ...
Ray LaHood supports green lanes at Safety Summit
May 3, 2013
The U.S. Department of Transportation hosted two Bicycle Safety Summits in April — one in Tampa and one in Minneapolis. Each summit brought together Federal, state and local officials, planners, designers, engineers, law enforcement, safety experts and others throughout the bicycle community to iden ...
Building support in Chicago, neighborhood by neighborhood
April 13, 2013
As Chicago seeks to implement grand plans for 100 miles of green lanes by 2015, a grant from the Green Lane Project is enabling theActive Transportation Alliance’s Neighborhood Bikeways Campaign to conduct valuable public outreach that is helping to keep Chicago’s plans moving forward. ...
Washington, DC prepares to double down on bicycling
April 12, 2013
The process of creating green lanes starts long before the construction crews show up, before the designs are presented to the public and before the engineers start their studies. It really starts in the unglamorous world of planning. Between 2009 and 2012 Washington has built four miles of protecte ...
Chicago Considers Bold Steps to Make Room for Protected Lanes
March 7, 2013
The Chicago Department of Transportation has added many miles of protected and buffered bike lanes across the city, but it can be challenging to find space for protected lanes on the streets where they are needed the most. CDOT has implemented ?road diets? on several streets, replacing excess car la ...
Portland retailers swoop into storefronts along bikeways
March 4, 2013
Urban commercial real estate has always been a rough-and-tumble scrum, and now Amazon.com has torn up the playbook. Across the country, many brick-and-mortar retailers are in big trouble. ...
Boxed in by politics,Portland tries a splash of color
February 15, 2013
When protected bike lanes compete for space with commercial auto access, even Portlanders sometimes balk. That’s why the city is trying a new tool to make bikers feel safe: paint. ...
Improved Pennsylvania Avenue Green Lane in the spotlight
February 12, 2013
Last month, Washington, DC had its usual day in the sun for the 57th Presidential Inauguration. But as the traditional parade moved from the Capitol to the White House, it became clear that one of the unexpected stars of the parade would be DC’s Pennsylvania Avenue green lanes. In fact, DC’s commitm ...
Chicago keeps on trucking toward goal of 100 miles of green lanes by 2015
February 1, 2013
In a report released today (PDF), the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced that in 2012 it installed and restriped a total of 39 miles of on-street bike facilities throughout Chicago, and has kept pace with Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to install 100 miles of protected green lanes by 2 ...
Mueller District Finds Cycle Tracks Good for Business in Austin
February 1, 2013
The first thing that struck me when I walked into the main administrative building for Mueller was the mounted bicycle hanging over the diorama. I was meeting with some representatives from Catellus Development Group, the master developer of the Mueller mixed-use village, to find out what motivated ...
Looking back at San Francisco's big year
January 20, 2013
San Francisco had a landmark year for bicycle improvements and infrastructure in 2012. From the implementation of physically separated green lanes, to new bicycle traffic signals and more, each development gives added safety to those on and off a bicycle. After years of stalled improvements due to a ...
How economic growth sold Portland landlords on a bikeway
January 6, 2013
Not long ago, in the dark days of auto-only transportation planning, a property manager that urged the city to eliminate two auto lanes adjacent to its planned 650-apartment complex might have been judged completely insane. ...
Protected Green Lanes Nearly Double Nationwide in 2012
December 9, 2012
Total to Double Again in 2013 According to New Inventory ...
Oh Dearborn! A virtual tour of Chicago's first 2-way green lane
December 3, 2012
These are definitely thrilling times for Chicago cyclists. Last summer Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) would be installing the city’s first two-way protected bike lane on Dearborn Street, a multilane northbound street through the center of the Loop d ...
Relaxing Rides in San Francisco
November 25, 2012
The seasons are changing in San Francisco?the air is becoming increasingly crisp, as the days are growing darker. With the inevitability of winter upon us, now is the perfect time to get outside, ride your bike and enjoy the last few days of Indian Summer. And since the upcoming holiday season can b ...