Bike/Ped
Bicycle Advocates Thank LaHood, Talk Strategy
This was a big week for bike advocates: They had a pow-wow with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, launched a new coalition, and refined their strategy for the 112th Congress.
January 14, 2011
Is the Livability Movement Doomed to Homogeneity? The CDC Says No.
The first time Adolfo Hernandez went to the National Bike Summit, he got a sense of just how monochromatic the livability movement can be.
January 13, 2011
Creative Crusaders Who Inspired Us in 2010
Travelling the country this past year promoting our book Carjacked, we met some pretty remarkable people who are working to reduce the price Americans pay for mobility. In the book we detail how our car dependent transportation system offers an awesome array of downsides, though they are often obscured by the auto industry’s relentless marketing blizzard.
January 13, 2011
Combat Joblessness, Stripe a Bike Lane
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.
January 7, 2011
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: The Last of the Streetsies 2010
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 thoughts and your final votes. Then we can really move into 2011.
January 5, 2011
AAA Gets an Earful From Members About Equality for Bikes
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 be reserved just for highways [PDF].
December 13, 2010
Bikes on Bridges: A How-To Guide for Advocates
The country’s crisis of crumbling infrastructure could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand bicycle access.
December 10, 2010
Dutch Planners School U.S. Cities on Bikeability
In the Netherlands, 30 percent of trips under five miles are by bike.
November 18, 2010
How Pedestrian! The Walking Movement Flexes Its Muscle
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.
November 16, 2010