Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

Bikes on Bridges: A How-To Guide for Advocates

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 10, 2010 | 2 Comments

The country’s crisis of crumbling infrastructure could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand bicycle access. With one out of every four U.S. bridges deemed deficient, obsolete, or inadequate, a spate of bridge reconstruction is already overdue. And as planners start engineering the improvements, pedestrians and cyclists have to make sure they’re part of the process. […]

Dutch Planners School U.S. Cities on Bikeability

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 18, 2010 | 14 Comments

In the Netherlands, 30 percent of trips under five miles are by bike. I know, I know, Euro-envy can get a little old. So the Dutch are trying to give us a little less to be jealous of. What if our streets were as bike-friendly as theirs? We could get there. Our trip patterns aren’t […]

Will Florida’s Next Governor Sink the State’s Chances for Rail?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

We’re keeping the news coming on the governor’s races we’re following most closely. Check out our previous coverage of Wisconsin, Ohio, California, Texas, Maryland, Colorado, and Tennessee. This one could be the most important yet. The most high-profile election in Florida is the three-ring circus of a Senate race, with Republican-turned-Independent Charlie Crist trailing badly […]

Bike-Ped Funding Dips as Stimulus Spending Slows

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

Via the League of American Bicyclists, new information is out about how much the feds are spending on bike-ped projects. While federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects is down a bit from last year’s all-time high, it still comes in at more than a billion dollars. A third of the money is from the American […]

Frontrunner for Tenn. Gov Gets Bike Award — But Look Behind the Curtain

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 8, 2010 | 2 Comments

Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam is a biking mayor. He shows up almost every year to Bike to Work Day. The small-government Republican has allocated $20,000 for bike improvements. “Twenty thousand may not sound like a lot,” said Kelley Segars, Knoxville’s Principal Transportation Planner. “But it meant that we could put up our first three signed […]

State DOTs Make Deeper Bike-Ped Budget Cuts Than Expected

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 1, 2010 | 4 Comments

We reported recently that the federal government was demanding $2.2 billion back from state DOTs in rescissions — money that was already allocated to states that they were then asked to give back. Bike and pedestrian advocates were worried that states would disproportionately target active transportation projects for cuts, instead of carving into car-centric programs. They were […]

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