Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

Cycling Booms in London, and the City’s Not Looking Back

By Angie Schmitt | May 2, 2016 | 15 Comments

Boris Johnson says that one of his goals as mayor of London was to make cycling “more popular and more normal.” As Johnson’s eight-year tenure winds down, it looks like the progress he made in his second term has accomplished that mission. If current trends continue, bike commuters will outnumber car commuters in central London by 2018, according to a […]

When to Use Protected Intersections? Academic Study Will Offer Advice

By Michael Andersen | Apr 5, 2016 | 14 Comments

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. If 2015 was the year protected intersections arrived in the United States, 2016 is the year the country’s bikeway pros are starting to really figure them out. Inspired by Dutch streets, protected […]

Fast Changes to City Streets: A 9-Step Guide for Creative Bureaucrats

By Michael Andersen | Mar 28, 2016 | 1 Comment

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 most of the 20th century, cities answered transportation problems by adding more pavement. More freeways. More lanes. More parking lots. More things that couldn’t be reversed or revised. So it made […]

5 Strategies for Equitable Active Transportation Planning and Advocacy

By Naomi Doerner | Mar 18, 2016 | 6 Comments

Cross-posted from the Alliance for Biking and Walking. It started as a lively discussion on the Bike Equity Network — a listserv for mobility and equity advocates working within walk/bike advocacy and planning — related to a Washington Post article that examined the notion of bike lanes as symbols of gentrification. The online conversation that […]

American Sharrow Inventor: “I Was Always Under Pressure to Do Less”

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 10, 2016 | 11 Comments

Sharrows, what are they good for? A recent study suggests that one thing shared lane markings don’t do is improve safety for cyclists. The conclusion has sparked an online debate and some detailed defense of sharrows in the right conditions. Seattle-based journalist Josh Cohen produces the Bicycle Story podcast, and in his new episode he digs into some of […]

Houston Unveils a Bold New Citywide Plan for Bicycling

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 19, 2016 | 19 Comments

The same team that helped overhaul Houston’s bus network is turning its attention to the city’s bike network. This week, recently-elected Mayor Sylvester Turner unveiled the city’s first bike plan since 1993. The plan envisions a network of low-stress bikeways — a welcome improvement over Houston’s previous bike plan, from 1993, which mostly consisted of “share the road” signs and sharrows on wide, high-speed roads, […]

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