Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Washington DC

All Eyes on Portland at Bike Summit

By Ben Fried | Mar 6, 2008 | 30 Comments

An organized ride on one of Portland’s bike boulevards. If there was a star at yesterday’s National Bike Summit, it was Portland, Oregon. After Earl Blumenauer, one of the city’s congressional reps and a former county commissioner, delivered the morning address, Portland’s bike planners and advocates shared their strategies at some of the more urban-focused […]

Bike Network 2.0

By Ben Fried | Mar 6, 2008 | 17 Comments

One of the more intriguing stories at yesterday’s National Bike Summit in Washington D.C. came from Nicole Freedman, who was appointed Boston’s first bike czar last September. A planner and one-time professional cyclist, Freedman was charged with building a bike network out of nothing, in a city routinely ranked among the nation’s worst for bicycling, […]

Earl Blumenauer Kicks Off 2008 Bike Summit

By Ben Fried | Mar 5, 2008 | 5 Comments

Congressman Blumenauer works the room Streetsblog’s Ben Fried files this report from Washington, DC. The National Bike Summit is in full swing today. There are more than 500 participants from 47 states on hand this year, organizers say, making this bike summit the biggest yet. Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), a bike commuter himself, kicked things […]

2008: Year of the Bicycle?

By Jason Varone | Mar 3, 2008 | 8 Comments

Ahead of this week’s National Bike Summit in Washington, DC, syndicated columnist Neal Peirce wonders if 2008 will be "bicycling’s best year since the start of the auto age." He writes about developments promoting the bicycle as a legitimate form of transportation around the world, many of which have been featured right here on Streetsblog: […]

From Mad Messenger to More Peaceful Cyclist

By Alex Marshall | Jan 14, 2008 | 11 Comments

Alex Marshall some time in the not-too-distant future… A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a bicycle courier. It was in the fall of 1979, during the semester I took off from college to start a rock band in Washington DC with friends. When not playing guitar in a roach-infested […]

DC Could Mandate Bike Parking, Sort Of

By Brad Aaron | Sep 17, 2007 | 9 Comments

While New York continues its on-again, off-again relationship with cyclists, Washington, DC is on the verge of requiring bike parking for commercial and residential development. Examiner.com has the story: The D.C. Council next week is expected to adopt legislation that could dramatically increase the number of parking spaces for bicyclists, a bill praised by the […]

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