Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike Lanes

Bike Ban Averted in Albuquerque, City Moves to Add Bike Lanes Instead

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 23, 2012 | 5 Comments

Albuquerque is a League of American Bicyclists certified “Bronze-Level” Bike Friendly Community. So everyone was a little taken aback when it looked like the city was pursuing a bike ban on a popular thoroughfare last week. No more. This New Mexico city redeemed itself in the eyes of bike advocates when city officials said Friday […]

Who Knew? Memphis on Track to Add 55 Miles of Bike Lanes in Just Two Years

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 11, 2011 | 5 Comments

It seems nowadays you aren’t truly a bike-friendly city until you’ve had your first civic dust-up over bike lanes. And by that standard, Memphis, Tennessee has arrived. Last month, this mid-sized Southern city fought back challenges by business owners to install a bike lane on one of its main major commercial thoroughfares, Madison Avenue. That […]

Arturas Zuokas, World’s Most Bike-Friendly Mayor

By Ben Fried | Aug 2, 2011 | No Comments

From the Irish Independent: Rebellious Lithuanian mayor Arturas Zuokas has taken clearing bike lanes of illegally parked cars into his own hands. He drove an army personnel carrier over an old Mercedes-Benz S-Class that had been parked in a bike lane in the capital Vilnius in a bid warn owners of “posh” cars that they […]

Bike-Ped Access to Cleveland’s New Bridge Picking Up Political Support

By Elana Schor | Mar 12, 2010 | No Comments

The push to add a bike-ped lane to Cleveland’s planned new Cuyahoga River bridge, a replacement for the crumbling Innerbelt span, is picking up new political support this week after a local advocacy campaign. The existing Innerbelt Bridge is in line for a $450 million replacement. (Photo: Cleveland.com) The Plain Dealer newspaper reported earlier this […]

To Tame World’s Most Dangerous Traffic, Delhi Turns to Bike Lanes

By Noah Kazis | Jan 26, 2010 | No Comments

(Photo: DaveBleasdale via Flickr) Delhi, home to over 12 million people and the seat of India’s national government, is widely considered to have the most dangerous traffic in the world. As The Guardian wrote recently, traffic safety in Delhi basically consists of "good horns, good brakes, good luck." Nationally, crashes in India killed more than […]

Study Provides a New Vision for Allen and Pike Street Malls

By Sarah Goodyear | Sep 19, 2008 | 5 Comments

Local residents turned out to give their opinions on the renovation of the malls early last summer. Residents of the Lower East Side and Chinatown have been fighting for improvements to the Allen and Pike Street pedestrian malls for more than a decade. Now, with the city’s Parks Department set to begin a $5.4 million […]

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