Protected Bike Lanes Archives — Page 5 of 12

Streetsblog NYC |Cars

A Round and a Roundy: Fighting Over Crumbs

Car drivers are selfish. Pedestrians and cyclists are fighting over crumbs. Our roads are unsafe.

Streetsblog

May 5, 2021

A Round and a Roundy: Fighting Over Crumbs

Streetsblog NYC |Bicycling

Streetfilms Auteur Reveals How You, Too, Can Create ‘Bike Count’ Videos

Clarence Eckerson Jr. — the Orson Welles of the streets — shares the secrets of making a great bike count video, and how such footage can help create change in your city.

Clarence Eckerson Jr.

April 19, 2021

Streetsblog NYC |Promoted

A Round and a Roundy: Godzilla vs. Kong is Not the Real Terror on our Streets

National treasure cartoonist Bill Roundy is certainly not above glomming onto today's hottest trends.

Streetsblog

April 12, 2021

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Bicycling

New ‘Controlling Criteria’ Will Make Sidewalks, Bike Lanes a Default Feature In State Road Projects

While many state highway bureaucracies treat bike, pedestrian, and transit infrastructure as an afterthought, new MassDOT highway engineering guidelines will require traffic engineers to include sidewalks, crosswalks, bus stops, and high-quality bike facilities when they design upgrades for the Commonwealth’s major roadways. In a directive adopted in January 2020, MassDOT formally adopted three new “controlling […]

Christian MilNeil

March 22, 2021

Streetsblog California |Bicycling

A Reminder that Protected Bike Lanes Can Make Streets Safer for Everyone

Building safe facilities for cyclists is one of the biggest factors in road safety for everyone.

Melanie Curry

January 7, 2021

Streetsblog NYC |E-scooters

Scooter Injuries Revealed! New Report Shows (Again!) the Need for More Protected Space for Two-Wheelers

A new report wants to be read as an attempt to curtail scooter use, but it makes a different case.

Gersh Kuntzman

October 15, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Bicycling

Cambridge City Council Votes to Fast-Track Citywide Protected Bike Lane Network

On Monday evening, seven of nine Cambridge city councilors voted to enact a suite of proposed amendments to the city’s year-old Cycling Safety Ordinance and set a 2026 deadline for a large suite of protected bike lane projects across the city. The 7-1 vote (Councilor Toomey voted against the ordinance, and Councilor Simmons merely voted […]

Christian MilNeil

October 5, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Bicycling

A Suburban Strip In Newton and Needham Is Getting a Complete Streets Makeover

Among other improvements, the project will build new protected bike lanes that will create a continuous, 1.8 mile bike route from Needham to Newton Highlands.

Christian MilNeil

October 1, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Bicycling

Boston Bike Counts Make the Case for Better Bike Lanes on Key Routes

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 […]

Christian MilNeil

September 4, 2020

Bicycling

How To Get More People on E-Bikes

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.

Kea Wilson

September 2, 2020

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