Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Combat Joblessness, Stripe a Bike Lane

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 7, 2011 | 1 Comment

A bummer of a jobs report came out today, showing that although unemployment dropped to its lowest point in 19 months, it’s still way higher than economists had hoped. But here’s some good news: according to the League of American Bicyclists, bike infrastructure creates more jobs for the money than roads. How can that be, […]

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: The Last of the Streetsies 2010

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 5, 2011 | No Comments

We couldn’t put a bow on 2010 until we’d thanked those who contributed to the cause of sustainable transportation and smart growth last year and shaken our fist at those who’d done their darnedest for sprawl and highways. Check out our first two installments of national, state and local Streetsie winners. Here are our parting […]

AAA Gets an Earful From Members About Equality for Bikes

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 13, 2010 | 13 Comments

In July of last year, when AAA launched their roadside bicycle repair service, cyclists got a warm fuzzy feeling for a minute and thought AAA was about as bike-friendly as an automobile organization could be. That bubble burst in July when AAA Mid-Atlantic President and CEO Don Gagnon editorialized that highway trust fund money should […]

Bikes on Bridges: A How-To Guide for Advocates

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 10, 2010 | 2 Comments

The country’s crisis of crumbling infrastructure could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand bicycle access. With one out of every four U.S. bridges deemed deficient, obsolete, or inadequate, a spate of bridge reconstruction is already overdue. And as planners start engineering the improvements, pedestrians and cyclists have to make sure they’re part of the process. […]

Dutch Planners School U.S. Cities on Bikeability

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 18, 2010 | 14 Comments

In the Netherlands, 30 percent of trips under five miles are by bike. I know, I know, Euro-envy can get a little old. So the Dutch are trying to give us a little less to be jealous of. What if our streets were as bike-friendly as theirs? We could get there. Our trip patterns aren’t […]

How Pedestrian! The Walking Movement Flexes Its Muscle

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 16, 2010 | 1 Comment

People tend to identify most strongly with things that set them apart. If everyone’s doing something, it hardly seems worth calling attention to the fact that you do it too. Which may be part of the reason it’s been hard for pedestrian advocacy organizations to build a strong identity around walking. Urban cyclists are constantly […]

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