Dutch Bike Embassy Brings Expertise to Austin
November 11, 2012
One of the many great things the Green Lane Project has done is provide funding for our city leaders to travel to Holland. Last month, members of the Dutch Cycling Embassy traveled to Austin to assess our streets and help envision how to make biking an integral part of Austin culture. Check out this ...
Memphis in the Netherlands: "Blown Away"
November 7, 2012
Even Kyle Wagenschutz, Memphis’ Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator, manages to crack a smile from the helm of a tandem where Memphis City Councilman Bill Morrison rides in tow. ...
Introducing green lanes on Fell and Oak streets in San Francisco
November 6, 2012
Physically separated green lanes will be introduced on Fell and Oak streets, making the route safer and more inviting for all people who wish to ride a bike. These streets are the flattest and most direct links to the Panhandle bike path and the Wiggle route, which is an extremely popular path despi ...
Washington DC: Green lane to connect rail trail with transportation hub
October 31, 2012
Running north from Union Station, 1st Street NE is quickly becoming the main street of one of Washington, DC’s newest neighborhoods, NoMa. Short for “North of Massachusetts,” NoMa has risen from long-ignored former rail yards to become the east end of downtown. In the last decade, the area has adde ...
Memphis on Broadway
October 12, 2012
Maybe you saw Memphis when it landed on Broadway in October 2009. Or, maybe you read earlier this month about Warner Brothers’ plans to turn the “tale of two star-crossed lovers living in segregated Memphis in the 1950s” into a motion picture. After all, the Broadway performance of Memphis netted ...
Imagine Austin - Compact and Connected
September 12, 2012
Garner Stoll is the Assistant Director for the Planning & Development Review Department for the City of Austin. He oversaw the development and completion of Imagine Austin, the city’s official comprehensive plan on dealing with growth population and development over the next three decades. ...
How Portland won its crown - and how to keep it
September 4, 2012
Portland has been the country’s bicycle capital for less than a decade. Claiming that crown took serious work — and retaining it will, too. ...
Chicago: Getting Ready for the Green Lane 'Breakthrough'
August 31, 2012
Last week dozens of engineers and planners from across the Chicago area converged on the Sears Tower to learn about green lanes and other new developments in bike facility design. The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, the region’s official planning organization, hosted this workshop, ?Design ...
San Francisco: Cycling in the City
August 24, 2012
It was a foggy August afternoon seven years ago when I arrived in San Francisco, my life neatly packed into a few boxes. Without a car, my options for transportation were walking, bicycling and taking public transit; luckily, San Francisco is a compact 47 square miles. I quickly learned that walking ...
Washington, DC: Nation’s Capital Commits to Green Lanes
August 23, 2012
Washington, DC is already one of the best biking cities in the United States, frequently being honored on various “best of” bicycling list. But the rapid rise of Capital Bikeshare membership and bike commuter share shows that the Nation’s Capital has room to grow. The success of bike facilities adde ...
The simple, inexpensive breakthrough that is transforming American cities
June 6, 2012
You can glimpse the future right now in forward-looking American cities a few blocks here, a mile there where people riding bicycles are protected from rushing cars and trucks. ...
Using the Land and Water Conservation Fund for Local Bike Projects
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There’s an opportunity to increase funding for cities and states to build new bike projects across the U.S. thanks to the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The federal government fully and permanently funded the LWCF at $900 million annually when the Great American Outdoors Act became law in ...
FEDERAL AGENDA FOR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION 2021
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When it comes to advancing pro-bike policies in 2021, we’re not waiting to get things done. ...
PeopleForBikes Responds to Tariff Announcement and Timetable
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On Monday, September 17, President Trump announced tariffs on $200 billion of goods imported from China, including bicycles of all sizes, as well as many bike parts and accessories. For the bike industry, these tariffs amount to a $250 million annual tax increase. Considering that 94 percent of comp ...
E-bike Access in National Parks
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On Aug. 29, Department of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt ordered the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service (NPS) to establish interim policies within 30 days that guide the use of e-bikes on public lands. The departments were en ...
New Utah Bill Defines Multiple-Mode and Out-of-Class Electric Bicycles
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The bill is the first in the nation to define multiple-mode products and their labeling requirements while establishing truthful advertising requirements for OCEVs sold as “e-bikes.”