Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bicycle Infrastructure

Connecting Cities’ Scattered Bikeways Is Going to Be Harder, But Worth It

By Michael Andersen | May 22, 2017 | No Comments

For 20 to 30 years now, many cities have been laying down bike infrastructure where it's cheap and easy. This catch-as-catch-can method has left cities with bike networks that look like so many pick-up sticks. Is it any wonder that bike transportation, though growing, remains fairly unusual?

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Street by Street, DC Builds Out a Center-City Protected Bikeway Network

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 8, 2017 | No Comments

Bike advocates from all over the country are in Washington right now for the League of American Bicyclists' annual Bike Summit. Among other things, it's a chance for out-of-towners like Jonathan Maus at Bike Portland to appreciate the city's progress on bike infrastructure. There are now nearly 16 miles of protected bike lanes in Washington, DC.

A proposed design in Cambridge. Image: Kittelson and Associates via Boston Cyclists Union.

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The ‘Peanutabout’ Concept Could Be a Breakthrough for Diagonal Streets

By Michael Andersen | Dec 1, 2016 | No Comments

Wickedly good biking ideas continue to pop up in Massachusetts.

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Edmonton’s Quick-Build Protected Bike Lane Grid: “A New Model” for Change

By Michael Andersen | Oct 12, 2016 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities connect high-comfort biking networks. The most interesting thing about this week’s best bike infrastructure news isn’t what’s being built. It’s how it’s being built. Two years ago, the sprawling Canadian prairie metropolis of Calgary decided to buck tradition and test […]

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A “Dutch Junction” With Glow-in-the-Dark Bike Lanes Now Exists — in Texas

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 7, 2016 | No Comments

It’s America’s first unsignalized “Dutch Junction” — a type of intersection with protected space for cycling. It even has solar luminescent bike lanes. And here’s the kicker — it’s in the heart of Texas. The Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M led the design and installation at a campus intersection in College Station. The Dutch Junction is designed to keep bicyclists out of […]

Eyes on the Street: The Emergent Sixth Avenue Bikeway

By Brad Aaron | Jul 19, 2016 | 13 Comments

6th Ave finally got its bike lane! #bikenyc pic.twitter.com/5yYF9SaxkL — Jesse Chan-Norris (@jcn) July 19, 2016 Work has started on the Sixth Avenue bikeway. The pic in the above tweet is at Sixth and 18th Street. The photo below, sent to us by a reader, was taken at 16th Street. Sixth Avenue is one of the […]

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