Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

LaHood Kicks Off National Bike Summit

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 8, 2011 | 7 Comments

On the first night of the National Bike Summit, Secretary Ray LaHood told an enormous hotel ballroom filled with cycling advocates about his childhood riding bikes in Peoria, Illinois and reminded them that they need to work harder than ever to convince Congress to support cycling. Last year, he captivated the Summit crowd with his […]

On Eve of National Bike Summit, A Renewed Push for Separated Bike Lanes

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 7, 2011 | 28 Comments

The National Bike Summit begins tomorrow, bringing together an estimated 750 cycling advocates. They’ll hear from NYCDOT Chief Janette Sadik-Khan, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, and they’ll descend on Congress in droves, plastic bike pins fastened to their lapels, to deliver a message about safe cycling access. We’ll be covering the […]

Moving Beyond the Automobile: Bicycling

By Elizabeth Press | Feb 22, 2011 | No Comments

In the second chapter of Streetfilms’ Moving Beyond the Automobile series, we’re taking a look at bicycling. The benefits of cycling are simple: It helps reduce congestion, meet sustainability goals, and improve public health. With Portland leading the way, many American cities have seen the share of people biking to work rise substantially in recent […]

Bike Trail Funding Survives 583 Amendments

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 18, 2011 | 15 Comments

Bet you weren’t expecting to hear any good news from the floor of the House today, were you? Turns out not everyone in Congress is as axe-happy as some high-profile Republicans. For example, Amtrak survived one attempt to cut all its funding and another to cut $447 million. (Amtrak funding does stand to lose $224 […]

Biggest TRB Meeting Ever Highlights Visionary Bicycle Research

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 31, 2011 | 3 Comments

If you attended last week’s annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, you were one of 10,900 people presenting 2,200 papers and 2,500 slide presentations on everything from the conspicuity of pavement markings to complete streets for blind pedestrians. TRB changed in 1976 from a highway research board to a multimodal focus, and now “TRB […]

New T&I Rep. Richard Hanna: A Little Bit Upstate NY, A Little Bit Portland

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 27, 2011 | 9 Comments

Rep. Richard Hanna, recently named the vice chair of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, is one of 19 freshmen Republicans on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. (Duncan Hunter is the 20th new Republican on the committee, but he’s not a freshman.) He represents New York’s 24th District, which includes Cooperstown, Utica, Norwich and the […]

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