#cycletracks

Police Helicopter Above 24th & Maryland

I rode all over town today, and a lot of it was in protected cycletracks. I rode down Fallsway to the gym in Harbor East, on the new Center Street cycletrack over to Mount Vernon for some errands, and the Maryland cycletrack home.  I can’t believe the difference these tracks make for my safety. I know, drivers see them as the enemy, taking away their territory, causing traffic jams, all for…

Here are America’s ten best new bike lanes of 2015

[Editor’s Note: Another year, and Louisville still isn’t competing with cities serious about bike infrastructure. While the city did build a few miles of new bike lanes this year, Louisville still has no protected bike lanes like the ones below that are so great to ride on. In fact, plans for the city’s first have lost steam and will be built as a standard lane.

This article was cross-postedfrom…

Honolulu installs a protected bike lane. Then sees massive drop in sidewalk biking.

[Editor’s Note: This article was cross-posted from PeopleForBikes.]

A few months after Honolulu’s first protected bike lane opened, it’s the latest to demonstrate a very consistent trend across the country: almost every protected bike lane cuts sidewalk biking in half.

From August 2014 (before barriers were installed) to February 2015 (after), the number of bikes using King Street (both…

Protected bike lanes and the social justice of urban space

[Editor’s Note: This article was adapted from a guest piece for Street Roots, a newspaper that covers housing and justice issues in Portland, Oregon. It has been cross posted from People for Bikes.]

It’s one of the most famous images in modern urban planning: three simple photos showing how much city space 80 people take up when they get around by bike, by bus, and by car.

The poster was made in…

How smart language helped end Seattle’s paralyzing bikelash

[Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by PeopleForBikes’ Green Lane Project, a program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. It appears here with permission.]

Instead of “cyclists,” people biking. Instead of “accident,” collision. Instead of “cycletrack,” protected bike lane.

It can come off as trivial word policing. But if you want proof…

People for Bikes rounds up America’s ten best new bike lanes of 2014

[Editor’s Note: While Louisville considers implementing its first “cycletrack,” a type of bike lane buffered from car traffic by physical barriers, take a look at these great bike lanes from around the country. This roundup was originally published by PeopleForBikes’ Green Lane Project on December 17, 2014. It appears here with permission.]

What a difference a year makes.

When we sat down to make