Why thank you very much, City of Santa Monica. (Photo: Evan G via Flickr) A couple of follow-ups on yesterday’s bike rack post. First, we noticed a very nice photo that reader Evan G recently posted to our Flickr pool (at right). It shows a sign that directs riders to expanded bike parking facilities at […]

Proper bike racks: It’s really so simple. (Photo: Illuminate LA) This morning on the Streetsblog Network, a bike parking success story from Los Angeles. Network member Soap Box LA reports on how the organized efforts of bike advocates forced a new branch of Trader Joe’s in Hollywood to install bike parking — just weeks after […]

A new study on how design and planning can keep these numbers down. (Photo: Amy the Nurse via Flickr) How the heck can we get people to drive less? That’s one of the most vexing questions facing sustainable transportation advocates. Higher gas prices seem to do the trick, although anecdotal evidence suggests that watching an […]

Can this trend be reversed in Beijing? (Photo: crypt K. via Flickr) Today on the Streetsblog Network, Eco Velo has a post about the precipitous decline in bicycling in Beijing: According to a recent article published by Agence France-Presse (AFP), increasing affluence in China has caused the rate of bicycle ridership in Beijing to drop […]

An e-bike used by a business to haul sandwiches in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo: Ben Cooper via Flickr) You’re seeing electric-powered bicycles more and more on the streets of New York these days, so far mostly ridden by restaurant deliverymen. But are they just early adopters of what will become a more widespread trend? Today on […]

Graph: Ad Age (Source for numbers: US Department of Transportation) An article published on May 31 in Ad Age about the decline in driving among young Americans has caught the eye of many Streetsblog Network members. The piece — which frames this as a big problem for the automobile industry — posits that the younger […]

A Danish take on the sushi-bike connection. (Photo: Mikael Colville-Andersen via Flickr) How is a bicycle like a fish? Specifically, a piece of raw fish on sticky rice wrapped in seaweed? Over at Copenhagenize Mikael Colville-Andersen is talking about the parallels between bicycle culture and sushi — from a marketing standpoint. It’s part of a […]

BP’s Tony Hayward admits he has a problem with oil. (Photo: via BullsOil.com) Today, even the CEO of BP used the words "environmental catastrophe" to characterize what’s happening in the Gulf of Mexico. Admitting you have a problem is, of course, the beginning of the road to recovery in the 12-step tradition of overcoming addiction. […]

In honor of National Bike Month, we asked you to send in pictures of bike infrastructure you love. And we got one message loud and clear: you love your bike infrastructure. A lot. We got hundreds of submissions.  It was terrific to see all the great stuff that’s out there, particularly because so much of […]

Moving a kid and a tub of compost, with an electric assist. (Photo: Mark Stosberg via Flickr) How much energy does it take to move two tons? Streetsblog Network member Mark Stosberg, who blogs at Bikes as Transportation, had the occasion to think about it recently when he embarked on a renovation project that involved […]

Iz in ur city uzing ur urbanizm. (Photo: St0rmz via Flickr) If you’ve been roaming the urbanist blogosphere this week, you may have happened upon the comments made by one of the progenitors of New Urbanism, Andres Duany, in an interview with the Atlantic. Duany, apparently, has a problem with young people coming into a […]

One of the beauties of the Streetsblog Network (now with 411 members) is that it gives us a pavement-level view of what’s happening in communities that are mostly glossed over by both mainstream media and what might be termed the mainstream blogosphere. Places like Sioux Falls, South Dakota. You might not think of Sioux Falls […]