Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

Calgary Opens a Downtown Protected Bike Lane Network All at Once

By Michael Andersen | Jun 22, 2015 | 6 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. One of North America’s unlikeliest and most ambitious protected bike lane projects is now on the ground. Calgary, the arid Alberta prairie town and natural gas capital, agreed last year on a […]

Vancouver Set to Claim Another Bridge Lane for Active Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 2, 2015 | 19 Comments

In 2009, Vancouver converted a southbound car lane on the west side of the Burrard Bridge to a protected bikeway using concrete dividers, freeing up the sidewalk for pedestrians. On the east side, the city converted the existing sidewalk into a bike path. The three-month experiment defied predictions of carmageddon and became a permanent fixture. Thanks to the protected lane and […]

Four Cities Race to Finish the Country’s First Protected Intersection

By Michael Andersen | May 28, 2015 | 4 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. Sometimes, change builds up for years. And sometimes, it bursts. Fifteen months after American bikeway designer Nick Falbo coined the phrase “protected intersection” to refer to a Dutch-style intersection between two streets […]

Tampa Installs Its First Green Bike Lane

By Angie Schmitt | May 28, 2015 | 2 Comments

There are splashes of green appearing in downtown Tampa, as the city installs its first buffered bike lanes on Platt, Cleveland, and Brorein streets, complete with green intersections. The Platt Street redesign trimmed the one-way, three-lane road down to a two car lanes plus a buffered bike lane. (The bike lane on Cleveland will offer a travel option for cyclists heading in […]

Biking and Walking Get About as Much Research Funding as Chicken Trucks

By Angie Schmitt | May 12, 2015 | 8 Comments

When traffic engineers don’t want to install protected bike lanes, they’ll often say that more research is needed to prove their safety (because any results from outside America don’t count, of course). But then when opportunities arise to study the safety of protected bike lanes, the engineering establishment doesn’t take advantage. And so the cycle […]

Salt Lake City to Install Nation’s First Protected Intersection for Bicycling

By Angie Schmitt | May 6, 2015 | 159 Comments

Salt Lake City is on track to implement America’s first protected intersection for bicycling this summer. The intersection design is based on a Dutch template that minimizes potential conflicts between people biking, driving, and walking. For example, it allows cyclists to make a left turn in two stages without crossing against oncoming car traffic. It will be part of […]

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