An Idea That Sticks: Another Plunger-Protected Bike Lane Goes Permanent
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Tactical urbanism projects are prompting cities to improve the bike-riding environment.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Infrastructure
There’s a Great New Entryway to NYC’s Most Uncomfortable Bike-Ped Path
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The new and improved entry path to the Brooklyn Bridge Promenade from Downtown Brooklyn is finally rideable. If the rest of the bridge path ever gets a widening and makeover to match this one, it will become one of the great walking and biking connections in New York.
Connecting Cities’ Scattered Bikeways Is Going to Be Harder, But Worth It
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For 20 to 30 years now, many cities have been laying down bike infrastructure where it's cheap and easy. This catch-as-catch-can method has left cities with bike networks that look like so many pick-up sticks. Is it any wonder that bike transportation, though growing, remains fairly unusual?
Street by Street, DC Builds Out a Center-City Protected Bikeway Network
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Bike advocates from all over the country are in Washington right now for the League of American Bicyclists' annual Bike Summit. Among other things, it's a chance for out-of-towners like Jonathan Maus at Bike Portland to appreciate the city's progress on bike infrastructure. There are now nearly 16 miles of protected bike lanes in Washington, DC.
The ‘Peanutabout’ Concept Could Be a Breakthrough for Diagonal Streets
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Wickedly good biking ideas continue to pop up in Massachusetts.
Edmonton’s Quick-Build Protected Bike Lane Grid: “A New Model” for Change
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities connect high-comfort biking networks. The most interesting thing about this week’s best bike infrastructure news isn’t what’s being built. It’s how it’s being built. Two years ago, the sprawling Canadian prairie metropolis of Calgary decided to buck tradition and test […]