Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

El Paso’s Bid to Create a Regional Active Transportation Network

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 6, 2016 | No Comments

A lot of regional transportation agencies talk a good game when it comes to improving biking and walking, but El Paso’s Metropolitan Planning Organization is actually doing something about it. The organization passed a new rule that designates seven key corridors as the “active transportation system.” Next, the MPO will identify gaps in the walking and biking network and […]

Atlanta Looks for Options Where Bidirectional Protected Bike Lanes Intersect

By Michael Andersen | Jul 25, 2016 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities connect high-comfort biking networks. Bidirectional protected bike lanes, which put both directions of bike traffic on the same side of a street, aren’t ideal. But they can be useful in a pinch. Like all protected bike lanes, well-designed bidirectionals are […]

Of Course the GOP Transportation Platform Is a Catastrophe

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 21, 2016 | 24 Comments

In the past few years, Congressional Republicans tried and failed to turn the federal transportation program into a highways-only affair. Still, the GOP isn’t giving up on eliminating federal funds for transit, walking, and biking. Donald Trump may have made his name building on the most transit-rich real estate in the nation, but he hasn’t changed the […]

Report: As Cities Add Bike Lanes, More People Bike and Biking Gets Safer

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 20, 2016 | 9 Comments

The more people bike on the streets, the safer the streets are for everyone who bikes. This phenomenon, originally identified by researcher Peter Jacobsen, is known as “safety in numbers.” And that’s exactly what American cities are seeing as they add bike infrastructure — more cyclists and safer cycling — according to a new report from the National […]

Take a Look at Tampa’s First Protected Bike lane

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 17, 2016 | 2 Comments

Tampa is starting to make progress on safe bike infrastructure. Last weekend, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn led a celebratory ride to mark the opening of the city’s first protected bike lane — a curb-protected two-way lane on Cass Street downtown. The Cass Street project is one of the first protected bike lanes in Florida — a notoriously dangerous […]

Eyes on the Street: London “Cycle Superhighway” Teems With Bike Traffic

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 7, 2016 | 18 Comments

Good Morning, London. This is what London’s Blackfriars Bridge looks like #cyclesuperhighwaypic.twitter.com/byAMWq1QLz — Sustrans London (@SustransLondon) May 17, 2016 In case you’re looking for a good visual to show how bike lanes can be extremely efficient transportation infrastructure, check out this short video from the UK-based advocacy group Sustrans. It shows rush hour on the Blackfriars Bridge […]

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