Bicycle Infrastructure
PeopleForBikes Wants Your Help to Rate Cities on Cycling
How well does your city work for bicycling? PeopleForBikes wants you to weigh in for a new city ranking that will be released in the fall.
February 17, 2017
Side-Street Bikeways Only Pay Off If You Have Protected Bike Lanes Too
Building bikeways only on quiet streets might actually be the worst option, one study says.
January 6, 2017
Protected Intersections in the U.S.: From Zero to 12 in Two Years
The country's newest major bike-lane innovation is very young. But so far, it's spreading faster than the protected bike lane did.
January 3, 2017
The ‘Peanutabout’ Concept Could Be a Breakthrough for Diagonal Streets
Wickedly good biking ideas continue to pop up in Massachusetts.
December 1, 2016
Protected Bike Lanes Are Sprouting Up in Walmart Country
Can protected bike lanes get people biking for transportation in northwest Arkansas?
November 22, 2016
Cycling Is Getting a Lot Safer in American Cities Adding a Lot of Bike Lanes
American cities still have a long way to go before they're considered safe for people of all ages and abilities to bike. But many of them have made a lot of progress recently, especially the ones building protected bike lanes.
November 16, 2016
American Traffic Engineering Establishment Finally Approves Bike Boxes
The wheels of change grind slowly at the institutions that guide the American traffic engineering establishment, but they are moving forward.
October 14, 2016
Edmonton’s Quick-Build Protected Bike Lane Grid: “A New Model” for Change
Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities connect high-comfort biking networks.
October 12, 2016
A “Dutch Junction” With Glow-in-the-Dark Bike Lanes Now Exists — in Texas
It's America's first unsignalized "Dutch Junction" -- a type of intersection with protected space for cycling. It even has solar luminescent bike lanes. And here's the kicker -- it's in the heart of Texas.
October 7, 2016
El Paso’s Bid to Create a Regional Active Transportation Network
A lot of regional transportation agencies talk a good game when it comes to improving biking and walking, but El Paso's Metropolitan Planning Organization is actually doing something about it.
September 6, 2016