Bicycling
Streetsblog California
Bike Coalition Says ‘No Way’ as S.F. Backs off Protected Bike Lanes
Painted-buffer lanes on Golden Gate Avenue failed miserably, so the SFMTA proposed them for Turk as well.
April 4, 2017
Are Women Really More Risk-Averse on Bikes, or Just More Honest?
A researcher raises some interesting skepticism.
March 22, 2017
Busting the Myth of the “Scofflaw Cyclist”
According to a certain perspective that seems to hold sway among local newspaper columnists, bicyclists are reckless daredevils who flout the road rules that everyone else faithfully upholds. But the results of a massive survey published in the Journal of Transport and Land Use point to a different conclusion -- everyone breaks traffic laws, and there's nothing extraordinary about how people behave on bikes.
March 17, 2017
The Motherland of Soul Is Getting an All-Ages Biking Network
Even as South Memphis has left deep marks on U.S. culture, its neighborhoods themselves have suffered. Now the city is working through many channels to reverse that -- one of which is putting the district at the front of the queue to get one of the country's first connected networks of all-ages bikeways.
March 14, 2017
In Baltimore, Combining Bikes and Buses to Reconnect a Car-Lite City
In the first in a series of profiles of the 10 focus areas in the PeopleForBikes Big Jump Project, we look at Baltimore's plans to beef up frequent bus service and install a low-stress biking network in six neighborhoods.
March 3, 2017
Key SF Supervisor Commits to Protected Bike Lanes on Upper Market
Last week, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) launched a letter-writing drive to make sure protected bike lanes are part of SFMTA's Upper Market Street Safety Project from Octavia to the start of the Duboce bicycle path. It looks as if the campaign worked.
February 27, 2017
Bill Would Require Caltrans to Actually Follow Its Own Complete Streets Guidelines
Caltrans already has a “Complete Streets Program.” But the department too often makes moving vehicles a priority over safe and attractive infrastructure for people not sitting in a car.
February 22, 2017
Caltrans Bike and Pedestrian Plan Meeting Update (Tomorrow)
Tomorrow's in-person meeting is cancelled, but you can still attend the webinar, happening as scheduled.
February 22, 2017
New Bike Legislation that Works for Bicycle Riders
Richard Masoner at Cyclelicious has a roundup of new bicycle-related bills introduced just before California's deadline on Friday. Two are big news, including one that should clarify the rules about what the law about staying to the right actually means.
February 21, 2017
Does Bike-Share Replace or Enhance Transit Use? That Depends
This graphic is based on research by two UC Berkeley faculty into the effects of bike-share use in different U.S. cities. It was originally published in Access Magazine by the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies.
February 15, 2017
