Michael Andersen
Michael Andersen writes about housing and transportation for the Sightline Institute. He previously covered bike infrastructure for PeopleForBikes, a national bicycling advocacy organization.
Recent Posts
Protected Lanes Are a Great Start — Next Goal Is Low-Stress Bike Networks
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. For decades, protected bike lanes were a “missing tool” in American street design. Now that this is changing, bikeway design leaders are identifying a new frontier: low-stress grids. “Separated bike lanes are […]
“Build It for Isabella”: Putting a Face on Why People Hesitate to Bike
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Eight years ago, Portland Bicycle Coordinator Roger Geller wrote one of the most influential pieces of modern American bike-planning theory when he divided the potential transportation bikers in his city into four […]
The Letter to the Times That Foresaw NYC’s Biking Triumph 10 Years Ago
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. With the recent news that Bicycling Magazine has named New York America’s best city for biking, this seems like a particularly good moment to share the very first time protected bike lanes were mentioned […]
In Austin, Posts and Paint Bring a New Bike Bridge From Good to Great
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Here are a few images from Austin bikeway engineer Nathan Wilkes that show how a protected lane can cheaply add a lot of value to a larger project. The bicycle and pedestrian […]
Pittsburgh Business Leaders See Bikeways as Cure for Road-Space Shortage
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Downtown Pittsburgh has a perfectly good reason to be running out of room for more cars: Its streets have been there since 1784. “In Pittsburgh, we have too many cars chasing too […]
Seattle DOT Hits the Street to Tell People About a New Bike Lane Proposal
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. One part public outreach and one part PARK(ing) Day, Seattle DOT held a three-hour open house last Wednesday for a half-mile protected bike lane on Dexter Avenue. The outreach session took place […]
6 Things to Like About Seattle’s New Broadway Bike Lanes (And One to Fix)
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. To see how dramatically Seattle has changed Broadway, just above its downtown, by adding streetcar tracks and one mile of two-way protected bike lane, compare the photo above (from Saturday) to the […]
One-Day Protected Bike Lane Demos Have Swept America this Summer
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. This is what a tipping point looks like. Around the country in the summer of 2014, community groups across the United States have been using open-streets events and other festivals to give […]
How Bike-Friendly Streets Help Denmark Combat Inequality
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. We don’t have to dream of a country where protected bike lanes and other quality bike infrastructure have dramatically improved life for poor people. We can visit it. It’s called Denmark, and […]
What the Data Tell Us About Bicycling and Household Income in America
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. As part of the Green Lane Project’s upcoming report on the connection between transportation equity and protected bike infrastructure, I’ve been digging deeper into the difference between (as Veronica Davis put it […]
African American Cyclists — And Others — Weigh in on Race and Biking
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Yesterday I wrote about a complicated subject: the links between biking and race in the United States. It’s the first in an ongoing series over the next three months that will finish […]
Why Do African Americans Tend to Bike Less?
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. It took a week in Copenhagen for Albus Brooks to start thinking seriously about bicycling. The Denver City Council member, 35, had never owned a bike. By the time he headed home […]