Protected Bike Lanes Archives — Page 5 of 12

Dashed bike lanes: Better than nothing, or total trash?

Are they a pragmatic, better-than-nothing approach on streets where stripping parking is seen as a nonstarter. Or are they a depressing capitulation to car culture?

John Greenfield

August 23, 2021

Dashed bike lanes: Better than nothing, or total trash?

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Bicycling

Research Suggests Boston’s New Protected Lanes Boosted Bikeshare Traffic 80 Percent

Bikeshare traffic across the Allston and Fenway neighborhoods more than doubled after a city project added protected bike lanes on Commonwealth Avenue. Furthermore, the fastest growth involved trips that would have been likely to use the newly-built protected bike lanes.

Christian MilNeil

July 22, 2021

Bicycling

An American Buys an E-Bike Every 52 Seconds

The two-wheeled electric vehicle revolution is taking off — but is Washington up to the task?

Kea Wilson

July 1, 2021

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

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

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