Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
If you can use your local bus service without too much inconvenience, you can vote for public transit with your feet and your dollars. You don’t have to wait for a referendum, and you can vote as often as you like.
If these projects inspire you, it’s probably time to launch an intervention of your own.
What forward-looking cities are learning about race, equity and building better bike lanes + 6 ways to broaden support for better bike lanes.
Businesses often fret that installing bike lanes on their streets will cut down customer traffic, but a new study published at Seattle Transit Blog found no evidence to back up that worry.
Impossible, many folks would tell me. Special bike lanes are strictly a European thing that would never fit in our newer, auto-dominated cities. You’re selling America short, I answered…
Former New York mayor Ed Koch envisioned bicycles as vehicles for the future, and in 1980 created experimental bike lanes on 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan where riders were protected from speeding traffic by asphalt barriers. It was unlike anything most Americans had ever seen–and some people roared their disapproval. Within weeks, the bike lanes were gone.
“I’ve never had my driver’s license,” Kevin Campbell says. A curly-headed 22-year-old with a Movember ‘stache, Kevin is the newest staff member at the groundbreaking Reno Bike Project. There’s a reason he’s never driven: A few years back, he was struck by a car while walking in a crosswalk.
