Bicycling
Basics
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
The Motherland of Soul Is Getting an All-Ages Biking Network
Even as South Memphis has left deep marks on U.S. culture, its neighborhoods themselves have suffered. Now the city is working through many channels to reverse that -- one of which is putting the district at the front of the queue to get one of the country's first connected networks of all-ages bikeways.
March 13, 2017
Street by Street, DC Builds Out a Center-City Protected Bikeway Network
There are now nearly 16 miles of protected bike lanes in Washington, DC.
March 8, 2017
Austin Is Starting a Three-Year Plan to Fight Congestion With Bikes
Its proposed biking network will increase road capacity as much as a freeway expansion.
March 6, 2017
In Baltimore, Combining Bikes and Buses to Reconnect a Car-Lite City
In the first in a series of profiles of the 10 focus areas in the PeopleForBikes Big Jump Project, we look at Baltimore's plans to beef up frequent bus service and install a low-stress biking network in six neighborhoods.
March 2, 2017
