Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike Lanes

Pittsburgh Business Leaders See Bikeways as Cure for Road-Space Shortage

By Michael Andersen | Aug 28, 2014 | 17 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. Downtown Pittsburgh has a perfectly good reason to be running out of room for more cars: Its streets have been there since 1784. “In Pittsburgh, we have too many cars chasing too […]

After Cyclists Protest, Toronto Will Protect Downtown Bike Lanes

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 13, 2014 | 2 Comments

In a victory for bike safety in Toronto, officials have agreed to add protective posts to three new downtown bike lanes. Toronto striped two buffered bike lanes in July and is preparing to add another. Local cyclists were expecting the lanes to have some physical protection to keep out illegally-parked cars and shield riders from […]

Study: To Keep Bicyclists Outside the Door Zone, You Need a Buffer

By Steven Vance | Jul 30, 2014 | No Comments

A new study has found that bike lanes with a buffer next to the parking lane are better than conventional bike lanes at encouraging bicyclists to ride outside the door zone. The study, recently published by the Transportation Research Board, concludes that wider but un-buffered bike lanes aren’t necessarily better than narrower lanes in encouraging bicyclists […]

Study: People Living Near Biking and Walking Paths Get More Exercise

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 21, 2014 | 8 Comments

People who live near safe, high-quality biking and walking infrastructure tend to get more exercise than people who don’t, according to a study published last week in the American Journal of Public Health. Researchers surveyed randomly selected adults before and after new bike/ped infrastructure was built in three communities in the U.K. Two of the […]

Denver’s Big Opportunity for World-Class Streets

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 11, 2014 | No Comments

Just a few months ago, Denver opened its first protected bike lane on 15th Street. But was that a one-off project or will the Mile High City change the way it designs streets citywide? The city’s approach to the redesign of Broadway will give a pretty strong indication of how serious Denver leaders are about […]

San Antonio to Tear Out the “Best Thing” City Has Done for Cycling

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 9, 2014 | 33 Comments

Score one for the NIMBY crowd in San Antonio. City Council representatives have voted 10-1 to remove 2.3 miles of bike lanes on South Flores Street, which the local blog Bike San Antonio says is one of the few cases where the city put a bike lane “where one needs to be.” Council members apparently […]

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