Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

NACTO Beats the Clock With Quick Update of Bike Guide

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 6, 2012 | 6 Comments

Once again, the National Association of City Transportation Officials has proven what an agile, modern coalition of transportation agencies is capable of. It was just a year and a half ago that NACTO released its first Urban Bikeway Design Guide and today, it’s released the first update to that guide. NACTO’s guide is far ahead of the industry standard, […]

AASHTO Adds Designs to Bikeway Guide, But Not Protected Bike Lanes

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 19, 2012 | 37 Comments

Last week, AASHTO, the national association of state DOTs, published the first update to its bicycle facility design guide in 13 years (available online for $144). Since many transportation engineers take their cues from AASHTO, there was an urgent need to update the 1999 guide, which failed to include many effective design treatments and promoted […]

Green Lane Project Spreads the Word About NACTO’s Bikeway Design Guide

By Katie Pearce | May 29, 2012 | 6 Comments

For the next two years, the Green Lane Project will lend expertise and support to Austin, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. as those cities implement the type of infrastructure that has proven successful at leading people to take up biking for transportation. The project bills itself as a “storytelling campaign” for the cities […]

The Unintended Consequences of Michigan Students’ Bike-to-School “Prank”

By Ben Goldman | May 24, 2012 | 19 Comments

Tuesday morning, a group of intrepid high schoolers in the western Michigan city of Walker got onto their bikes and into a heap of trouble. The Kenowa Hills High School students, eschewing a tradition of senior pranks that often destroy school property (spray-painting lockers and super-gluing doors, for example), opted to ride their bikes to […]

New WHO Tool Calculates the Health Savings of Bike/Ped Infrastructure

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 23, 2012 | 5 Comments

Sidewalks, bike lanes, traffic calming projects — they save lives. Not just by protecting cyclists and pedestrians (not to mention motorists), but by encouraging physical activity that leads to a healthy life. Of course, it can be hard to convince politicians to see things in those terms when it’s time to pony up for walking […]

Cold Climate Can’t Stop Minneapolis’s Surging Bike Rates

By Ben Goldman | Jan 20, 2012 | 5 Comments

Good news out of the Sierra Club Green Transportation Campaign, whose national conservation organizer Rachel Butler brings our attention to Minneapolis’s first ever Bicycle Account [PDF]. The compilation of cycling-related data shows a marked increase in the number of cyclists and a steadily decreasing injury rate to go along with substantial investments in bicycle infrastructure […]

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