Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Protected Bike Lanes

A Protected Bike Lane Network Springs Fully Formed from Advocates’ Brains

By Michael Andersen | Feb 19, 2015 | 2 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. For supporters of cycling both inside and outside government, the playbook has become familiar. Lobby city planners to make a bike network plan. Get it funded. Make it as forward-thinking and ambitious […]

Dutch Suburbs Are Like America’s, and Protected Bike Lanes Work Fine There

By Kirk Boydston | Jan 15, 2015 | 67 Comments

This post is part of The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. This is the first in a two-post series on Dutch suburbs. People the in U.S. street design world — sometimes even people who write for this very website — regularly say […]

Vote to Decide the Best Urban Street Transformation of 2014

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 17, 2014 | 72 Comments

If you’re searching for reasons to feel positive about the future, the street transformations pictured below are a good start. Earlier this month we asked readers to send in their nominations for the best American street redesigns of 2014. These five are the finalists selected by Streetsblog staff. They include new car-free zones, substantial sidewalk […]

How Pittsburgh Builds Bike Lanes Fast Without Sacrificing Public Consultation

By Michael Andersen | Nov 19, 2014 | 12 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. Four months — that’s how long it took Pittsburgh to announce, plan, and build its first three protected bike lanes. One of the country’s most beautiful (and probably still underrated) cities has […]

A State DOT Designing a Protected Bike Lane? It’s Happening in Kalamazoo

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 9, 2014 | 52 Comments

A tipster in Chicago sent over these images of an impressive street redesign planned for downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. The treatment shown above — a two-way parking-protected bike lane with planted pedestrian islands — will apply to about a mile of Michigan Avenue, near Western Michigan University. Protected lanes would continue north on Rose Street and east […]