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
Best Bike Cities? Forget the Census, Let’s Start Asking Mobile Apps
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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. The most popular bicycle transportation measurement system in the country is hopelessly skewed toward a niche activity. We refer, of course, to the U.S. Census. The niche activity: going to work. Most […]
What a Great Pilot Bike Lane Project Looks Like: 3 Best Practices
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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. From Calgary to Seattle to Memphis, the one-year pilot project is becoming the protected bike lane trend of 2014. Street designers looking to use the design have been putting down their digital […]
Surprise! People Aged 60-79 Are Leading the Biking Boom
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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. The national surge in adult bicycling since 1995 may have more to do with healthy hips than with hipsters. Biking rates among people between the ages of 60 and 79 are soaring, […]
Memphis Turns Two Highway Lanes Into a Car-Free Oasis By the Mississippi
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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. Once you start thinking about new ways to use your city’s streets, you start to see opportunities everywhere. That’s exactly what’s happened last weekend in Memphis, Tennessee, where half of a separated […]
The Street Ballet of a Bike Lane Behind a Transit Stop
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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. Why don’t more cities escape the curse of bus-bike leap-frogging by putting bike lanes between transit platforms and sidewalks? Though “floating bus stops” and similar designs are being used in many cities, […]
The Younger You Are, the More Likely You Are to Like Protected Lanes
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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. Before we totally wrap up our coverage of last week’s big new study of protected bike lanes, we couldn’t resist sharing one last detail that might be of interest to American politicians […]
There Is Now Scientific Evidence That Parking Makes People Crazy
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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. Fifth in a series. All this week, we’ve been unpacking the nuances of the first major study of protected bike lanes in the United States. Today, we’re wrapping things up by taking […]
Protected Bike Lanes Make the “Interested But Concerned” Feel Safer Biking
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If you like painted bike lanes, you’ll probably love protected bike lanes. That’s a key finding from the first academic study of U.S. protected lanes, released this week, which surveyed 1,111 users of eight protected lanes in five cities around the country and 2,301 people who live near them. Among people whose most important reason for […]
Protected Bike Lanes Attract Riders Wherever They Appear
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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. Second in a series. The data has been trickling in for years in Powerpoint slides and stray tweets: On one street after another, even in the bike-skeptical United States, adding a physical […]
Get Ready for a Landmark Study of America’s Protected Bike Lanes
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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’s a sign of how new the modern protected bike lane is to the United States that we haven’t actually known very much about them, scientifically speaking. Until now. Most academic studies […]
Real Talk: Why the Mayor of Memphis Is Building Protected Bike Lanes
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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. While the Green Lane Project team was interviewing smart people around the country for our new video about the rise of protected bike lanes, we asked Mayor AC Wharton of Memphis why he’s been […]
Anthony Foxx Kicks Off Nationwide Project for Better Bike Lanes
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Staring down a highway trust fund that he described as “teetering toward insolvency” by August or September, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Monday that better bike infrastructure projects are part of the solution. “When you have a swelling population like the USA has and will have for the next 35 years, one of the […]