Today’s Headlines

By Elana Schor
Sep 21, 2009

Detroit’s longtime mayor urges a new focus on transportation reform (Free Press)

Denver’s environmentally sustainable public housing effort gets $10 million federal grant (D.Post)

Bike advocates jumpstart ambitious new project in Las Vegas (Bikes Belong Press)

How did Thomas Jefferson make it into Planetizen’s list of Top 100 urban thinkers? (TNR)

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Photos: Toronto Protesters Meet Bike Lane Removal Crews Head On

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Yesterday was supposed to be the day that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford removed the Jarvis Street bike lane. But things didn’t go exactly according to plan. As Streetsblog NYC reported, protesters physically blocked the pavement-scraping machine as crews set about erasing those painted lines. Everyone’s talking about it. Shawn Micallef at Streetsblog Network member Spacing Toronto was on hand yesterday and […]

Today’s Headlines

By Elana Schor | May 18, 2010

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Walk Score Ranks the Bikeability of Every Address in 36 Cities

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 18, 2012

Walk Score came out with its bikeability rankings in the spring, but they were only at the citywide level. If you wanted to plug in your address and come up with a custom rating for your own address, like you can with Walk Score, the system wasn’t quite ready. That all changes today. Using an […]

Falling Behind on Protected Bike Lanes? Blame Canada

By Brad Aaron | Jul 31, 2015

“Something big is definitely brewing in Canada.” That’s the word from Michael Andersen at People for Bikes, which monitors Twitter for news on protected bike lanes around the English-speaking world. Vancouver’s investment in bike infrastructure paid off with a 64 percent spike in bike traffic from 2013 to this year. And Andersen says Canada as a whole has […]

The Inside Story of How Chicago Built the Dearborn Street Bike Lane

By Gabe Klein | Oct 26, 2015

Editor’s note: As transportation commissioner for DC and later Chicago, Gabe Klein was pivotal in the development of a new model for big-city DOTs. Along with Janette Sadik-Khan in New York, Klein (who sits on the board of OpenPlans, the organization that publishes Streetsblog) pioneered an approach that prioritized people instead of cars and emphasized the importance of […]