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
Three Street Design Pros on the New Golden Age of Traffic Engineering
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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. James Bond needs a Q. Scooby-Doo needs a Velma. Katniss Everdeen needs a Beetee. And today’s urban biking movement won’t get far without engineers, either. As the country’s civil engineers converge for […]
U.S. Awareness of Protected Bike Lanes Is Literally Growing Exponentially
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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 people in the protected bike lane movement start to get a handle on 2015, it’s worth pausing to look at the magnitude of 2014’s success. If any one chart can tell […]
As Protected Bike Lane Design Evolves, New Lessons Emerge
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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. Last year offered lots of case studies for those of us working to make the case for protected bike lanes. With the explosion of protected lanes in the United States, we have far more […]
How Pittsburgh Builds Bike Lanes Fast Without Sacrificing Public Consultation
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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. Four months — that’s how long it took Pittsburgh to announce, plan, and build its first three protected bike lanes. One of the country’s most beautiful (and probably still underrated) cities has […]
Four Reasons Pedestrian Injuries Have Plummeted Along 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. Protected bike lanes are good at making it safer to bike. But they are great at making it safer to walk. As dozens of thought leaders on street safety gather in New […]
Sign of the Times: Protected Bike Lanes Pop Up in Lego Book
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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. “Let me publish the textbooks of a nation and I care not who writes its songs or makes its laws,” the 19th century entrepreneur D.C. Heath supposedly said. The movement to spread […]
Six Tips From Denver for Crowdfunding a Bike Project
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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. Need money for a better bike lane? Try asking the Internet. A year after a neighborhood enhancement group in Memphis turned heads around the country by raising $70,000 for a new protected […]
Don’t Believe the Headlines: Bike Boom Has Been Fantastic for Bike Safety
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The Governors Highway Safety Association released a report Monday that, the organization claimed, showed that the ongoing surge in American biking has increased bike fatalities. Transportation reporters around the country swung into action. “Fatal bicycle crashes on the rise, new study shows,” said the Des Moines Register headline. “Cycling is increasing and that may be […]
NYC Bike-on-Sidewalk Tickets Most Common in Black and Latino Communities
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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. Of all the possible ways to break the law on a bicycle, pedaling on the sidewalk ought to be one of the most sympathetic. Yes, sidewalk biking is unpleasant and potentially dangerous […]
A New Bike Network Takes Shape, and Atlantans Turn Out in Droves
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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 capital of the New South is working on its latest “highway” network. This one is going to be a lot quieter. The massive Beltline trail and an impressive grid of protected lanes […]
#MinimumGrid: Toronto Advocates Move Politicians Beyond Bike Platitudes
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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. Almost all urban politicians will tell you they think bikes are great. But only some actually do anything to make biking more popular. In Toronto’s current mayoral and city council election, a […]
Census Finds DC and NYC Bike Commuting Has Doubled in Four Years
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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 the first and second U.S. cities to start building networks of modern protected bike lanes, the payoff seems to have arrived. In both Washington, DC, and New York City, the rate […]