Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Protected Bike Lanes

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How Bike Counts Make for Better Bike Lanes

By Christian MilNeil | Sep 4, 2020 | No Comments

Earlier this summer, the City of Boston published the results of its 2019 bike counts, an annual tally of bike traffic that’s conducted every June and September. And while the city is busy building new bike infrastructure in an effort to increase the number of bike trips people make across the city, the 2019 counts […]

How To Get More People on E-Bikes

By Kea Wilson | Sep 2, 2020 | No Comments

It will take a different kind of advocacy to increase e-bike adoption in the U.S. — and the whole cycling community might be better for it.

This 30 km per hour "slow" lane in Madrid is sandwiched squarely between high-speed driving lanes on a 7 lane arterial — and cyclists are required by law to ride in the middle of it. Source: Google Maps via Cycling Savvy.

Should the U.S. Try Madrid's Cycling Approach?

By Kea Wilson | Aug 11, 2020 | No Comments

The Madrid Model of "slow" lanes in the middle of roads could rival the Scandinavian model of protected lanes that separate cyclists from traffic altogether — if Americans will have it.

The WeClaim lane delineator. Image description: A man bikes in a protected bike lane, shielded from car traffic by a series of recycled car tires that have been sculpted into planters for tall grasses and outfitted with reflective tape. Source: Spin

Protected Bike Lanes that Any City Can Afford

By Kea Wilson | Jul 29, 2020 | No Comments

You don't need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect cyclists, scooter riders, and other vulnerable road users from car traffic.

The Saris "Wave" delineator is one of a tiny handful of road barriers that both provide meaningful protection to the vulnerable *and* aren't hideous to look at. A new contest hopes to find more options — and make them cheap, sustainable and durable enough that cities have no excuse not to deploy them. Image source: Creative Commons.

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Contest Needs You to Create Better Bike Lane Barriers

By Kea Wilson | Apr 23, 2020 | No Comments

We need something better than either bulky, expensive, and profoundly ugly concrete bollards, or shrimpy, plastic poles that drivers can plow straight over.

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2020/02/19/lightfoots-crackdown-on-bus-and-bike-lane-violations-is-a-step-in-the-right-direction/

Chicago Has a Great New Tool to Keep Cars Out of Bus Lanes

By John Greenfield | Feb 20, 2020 | No Comments

Editor’s note: How many times have you seen drivers decide that the bike or bus lane would be the perfect place to idle in their cars — even if it forces cyclists out into dangerous traffic, or slows down what’s supposed to be a rapid bus route? Chicago has a great idea to stop that […]

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