Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Women

Women’s Bicycling Forum Confronts Obstacles to Getting More Women Riding

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 4, 2014 | 23 Comments

This year marks the third time a Women’s Bicycling Forum has preceded the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC, and, despite weather emergencies and an epidemic of flight cancellations, this is by far the best-attended one yet. Despite impressive momentum, the movement to get more women on bikes faces many obstacles. Yesterday, National Organization of […]

The Freezing NYC-DC Bike Ride to Support Women in Cycling

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 3, 2014 | 4 Comments

The 2014 National Bike Summit is underway in our nation’s capital, starting with the Women’s Bicycling Forum, with its focus on expanding the share of women on two wheels. You can follow along on Twitter at #womenbike. In 2009, according to the League of American Bicyclists, women accounted for just 24 percent of bike trips […]

SSTI to Transport Officials: Start Planning for a Future With Less Driving

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 2, 2013 | 8 Comments

For a long time in the United States, driving activity moved in step with the economy. Since economic growth was fairly steady, consistent growth in driving was built into all the traffic modeling the engineers used to plan and build streets and transportation infrastructure. But now per capita driving has declined eight straight years in America. Total […]

The National Push to Close the Cycling Gender Gap

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 19, 2013 | 21 Comments

Women have been called an “indicator species” of a bike-friendly city because they tend to pedal more in places that are safe and practical for biking. But on those counts, the United States has some work to do. In 2009, the last time good data was released, less than a quarter of bike trips in […]