Bicycling
Basics
Popular Support for Bike Lanes Is Precisely the Problem for Atlanta Columnist Bill Torpy
A plan to put an extra-wide suburban Atlanta thoroughfare on a road diet, adding protected bike lanes in the process, has come under fire from a local columnist with an unhealthy vendetta against people who ride bikes.
April 25, 2017
Hot Take: People Sometimes Bump Into Bike Lane Separators, and That’s OK
People do it in cars and on bikes. It's a tradeoff worth taking.
April 24, 2017
It’s Hard to Overstate the Health Benefits of Biking to Work
A massive new study of commuters in the United Kingdom reveals that people who bike to work tend to live longer and are at lower risk of heart disease and cancer. While the study establishes correlation but doesn't prove causation, the size of the sample and the magnitude of the effects strongly suggest that biking to work can yield major health benefits.
April 24, 2017
The Main Street of Latino Culture in Providence Will Get a Bike-Walk Upgrade
Broad Street sees more biking and walking collisions than any other street in the city.
April 20, 2017
For People of Color, Barriers to Biking Go Far Beyond Infrastructure, Study Shows
New research from New Jersey shows huge gaps in conventional wisdom.
April 18, 2017
The Country’s Newest Biking Boomtown Looks to the Next Level
Bike transportation in New Orleans has doubled in the last few years.
April 3, 2017
Providence Is Using Bikes to Build a Future on a Freeway’s Footprint
Fifty years ago, almost every city in the country discovered the effects a freeway has on the neighborhoods nearby. Now, one of the country's oldest cities is about to learn what happens when you move a freeway out.
March 30, 2017
Why Do Teenage Girls Lose Interest in Biking?
Jennifer Dill at Portland State University is taking a close look at why girls' attitudes about biking change over time. In a study of 300 Portland-area families, she observed that a gender gap in attitudes toward cycling isn't apparent in younger kids, but when girls reach adolescence, they don't view cycling as positively as boys do.
March 29, 2017
Are Women Really More Risk-Averse on Bikes, or Just More Honest?
A researcher raises some interesting skepticism.
March 21, 2017
Busting the Myth of the “Scofflaw Cyclist”
According to a certain perspective that seems to hold sway among local newspaper columnists, bicyclists are reckless daredevils who flout the road rules that everyone else faithfully upholds. But the results of a massive survey published in the Journal of Transport and Land Use point to a different conclusion -- everyone breaks traffic laws, and there's nothing extraordinary about how people behave on bikes.
March 16, 2017
