Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Bikes, Cars, and People Co-Exist on Pittsburgh’s Shared Streets

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 3, 2014 | 10 Comments

Summer is finally here, but livable streets advocates already can’t wait for September to come. The biennial Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place conference is taking place in Pittsburgh, a city that’s shedding its “Rust Belt” image and emerging as a leader in progressive street design with the help of a new mayor who’s committed to biking, […]

What a Great Pilot Bike Lane Project Looks Like: 3 Best Practices

By Michael Andersen | Jul 3, 2014 | 6 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. From Calgary to Seattle to Memphis, the one-year pilot project is becoming the protected bike lane trend of 2014. Street designers looking to use the design have been putting down their digital […]

FHWA: Bike-Ped Investments Pay Off By Cutting Traffic and Improving Health

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 26, 2014 | 10 Comments

Nine years after launching a program to measure the impact of bike and pedestrian investments in four communities, the Federal Highway Administration credits the program with increasing walking trips by nearly a quarter and biking trips by nearly half, while averting 85 million miles of driving since its inception. In 2005, the FHWA’s Nonmotorized Transportation […]

Senator Pat Toomey Fights to Spare America From Safe Streets

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 25, 2014 | 4 Comments

You know the Senate is close to passing transportation legislation when someone introduces a hare-brained amendment to ban bike and pedestrian programs. Sen. Ron Wyden, as promised, yesterday introduced a bill to extend MAP-21 and the Highway Trust Fund’s authority by three months. It also transfers some money from the general fund into the HTF to keep […]

371 City Leaders Ask Boxer For More Local Control Over Bike/Ped Money

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 25, 2014 | No Comments

Last week, 371 mayors and other city leaders wrote a letter [PDF] to Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, in support of local control over transportation dollars for bike and pedestrian projects. About two-thirds of the signatories are mayors, from cities as big as Philadelphia and Los Angeles and as […]

Building a Bike-Ped Data Model That Planners Will Take Seriously

By Tanya Snyder | May 30, 2014 | 1 Comment

It’s hard to make the case for public spending on biking and walking without hard data. And quality data has been hard to come by. The Rails-to-Trails Conservancy is looking to change that. The group has taken on a new project to rigorously measure walking and biking on various corridors, providing baseline data that can […]

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