Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

“Macho Bike Culture” and America’s Paucity of Bike Infrastructure

By Angie Schmitt | | 27 Comments
This morning Andrew Sullivan highlighted a story in the Australian journal The Conversation that explains how the “macho” bike culture of the 1970s contributed to low cycling rates in that country and the United States as well. The Conversation‘s Steven Fleming points to recent studies showing that streets with protected bike infrastructure are safer than streets without it. People prefer […]

FHWA to Transportation Engineers: Use the NACTO Bikeway Design Guide

By Angie Schmitt | | 30 Comments
In a significant step forward for American bike infrastructure, the Federal Highway Administration issued a memorandum late last month essentially endorsing street designs like protected bike lanes. In the memorandum, FHWA urges transportation engineers to use the guidelines issued by the National Association of City Transportation Officials, which contains templates for bikeway designs widely deployed […]

Atlanta’s Big Bike Push

By Angie Schmitt | | 5 Comments
What would it take to change Atlanta into a place that values and celebrates healthy, active transportation? We just may see, in short order. Atlanta just recently installed its first protected bike lane on a short segment of 10th Street at Piedmont Park. But that’s just the beginning of what the city has planned. Atlanta […]
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