Michael Andersen, PlacesForBikes
Recent Posts
Six Secrets From the Planner of Sevilla’s Lightning Bike Network
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Here's one way to understand the story of biking in Sevilla, Spain: It went from having about as much biking as Oklahoma City to having about as much biking as Portland, Oregon. It did this over the course of four years.
Lightning Fast, Dirt Cheap: Five Tips From SF’s Protected Bike Lane Projects
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How to cut the project time of a new protected bike lane by 90 percent and the cost by 75 percent.
Bikes and Transit Keep Racking Up Ballot Wins Across the Country
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In one U.S. city after another, voters keep making their opinions clear.
Fort Collins Just Built Five Miles of Bikeway for Less Than $1 Million – Here’s the Trick
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Fort Collins, Colorado, is the latest city to embrace America’s most underrated type of bike facility. As it works to improve the low-stress biking network in the newer, car-oriented neighborhoods of its northwest, the city of 164,000 has used a tool that can be perfect for quickly, cheaply linking up the biking grid: a neighborhood […]
Want People to Bike? Skip the Sweet Talk and Build
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Don't waste time trying to convince people to feel warmly about bicycling.
Study After Study Finds Latinos Have a Strong Affinity for Social Biking
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Most people find it pleasant to bike with people they know. But there's growing evidence that Latino Americans are particularly interested in social biking.
An Idea That Sticks: Another Plunger-Protected Bike Lane Goes Permanent
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Tactical urbanism projects are prompting cities to improve the bike-riding environment.
Here’s a New Street-Level Analysis of the Biking Networks in 299 U.S. Cities
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PeopleForBikes has just made the first attempt to measure and compare local bike networks on a nationwide scale.
Landmark Study Tests a Bike Network’s Effects on Safety and Ridership
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Fascinating results from a city whose bike network was literally a Communist plot.
Connecting Cities’ Scattered Bikeways Is Going to Be Harder, But Worth It
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When the low-hanging fruit has all been eaten, there's only one thing to do: climb higher.
Grassy Storm Drainage Can Be a Transportation Twofer, New Guide Shows
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If your city's transportation department and its stormwater management department were to team up to put storm drainage in just the right places, it could be a very cost-efficient way to manage runoff while creating permanent, attractive separation between bike and car traffic.