Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bicycling

Protected Bike Lanes Even More Useful in Snowy Cities Than in Warm Ones

By Annie van Cleve | Sep 21, 2015 | 3 Comments

Annie van Cleve is a guest writer for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Here’s the best argument not enough people are making for protected bike lanes: Winter. Hear me out. If you have ridden your bike through snow or ice, you know […]

House Dems: We Won’t Support a Transpo Bill That Cuts Bike/Ped Funding

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 15, 2015 | 1 Comment

House Democrats won’t stand for any cuts to federal funding for walking and biking infrastructure. That was the gist of a letter signed by every Democratic member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee last week. Groups aligned with the Koch brothers and their organization Americans for Prosperity have pushed to eliminate all federal funds for walking, biking, and […]

You Won’t Soon Forget These Photos of Ghost Bikes. That’s Exactly the Point.

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 11, 2015 | 2 Comments

You’ve seen them, locked to signposts on the side of the road. Maybe you’ve helped install one. Maybe you’ve cried at the sight of them. Ghost bikes memorialize people who have been killed while riding bikes. The bikes don’t usually stay up for more than a few weeks or months before the city removes them […]

Binge Watch This Video Series Profiling Unsung Bike Heroes

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 3, 2015 | No Comments

From the creative minds of bike activist and filmmaker Joe Biel and feminist bike ‘zine writer Elly Blue comes a new project that I bet you’re going to love. Groundswell is a series of videos that spotlight grassroots bicycle activists who don’t normally get much glory. Eight videos have been completed — the one above is the first […]

“Share the Road” Signs Don’t Work

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 2, 2015 | 28 Comments

Delaware got rid of its “Share the Road” signs about two years ago. Though the signs were designed to affirm cyclists’ rights to the road, they were widely misinterpreted — by both motorists and cyclists — as an exhortation to cyclists to stop “hogging” the road, or as a recommendation that drivers and cyclists share a lane (leading to tight squeezes and […]

It Just Works: Davis Quietly Debuts America’s First Protected Intersection

By Michael Andersen | Aug 11, 2015 | 54 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. The city that brought America the bike lane 48 years ago this summer has done it again. Davis, California — population 66,000, bike commuting rate 20 percent — finished work last week […]

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