Michael Andersen
Michael Andersen writes about housing and transportation for the Sightline Institute. He previously covered bike infrastructure for PeopleForBikes, a national bicycling advocacy organization.
Recent Posts
The Calgary Model: Connect Protected Bike Lanes Fast, Watch Riders Pour In
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Last week, we shared a new report about the best practices for cities that want to make faster, cheaper changes to their streets. Today, let’s take a moment to recognize the North American […]
When to Use Protected Intersections? Academic Study Will Offer Advice
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. If 2015 was the year protected intersections arrived in the United States, 2016 is the year the country’s bikeway pros are starting to really figure them out. Inspired by Dutch streets, protected […]
Bike Counts Rising Fast at Automated Counters Around the World
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. The battle to make biking a viable transportation or recreation choice for more people is fought mostly at the local level: a protected bike lane here, a BMX course there, a new […]
Chattanooga’s Custom-Built De-Icer for Protected Bike Lanes Is Adorable
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. As we wrote the other day, clearing snow and ice from protected bike lanes isn’t hard. It just requires some effort. Fortunately for Chattanooga, Tennessee, that’s no problem. This winter, to keep […]
Change Is Afoot on the Country’s Most Important Street Design Committee
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. One year after some progressive civil engineers around the country feared a crackdown against new-fangled street and signal designs, the opposite seems to be taking place. The obscure but powerful National Committee on […]
New Philly Mayor Promises 30 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes by 2021
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A map of possible future protected bike lanes proposed by the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia. Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. The bike-friendliest big city on the Eastern Seabord has been falling a bit behind the times, […]
How Cities Clear Snow from Protected Bike Lanes: A Starter Guide
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This post is by Tyler Golly of Stantec and Michael Andersen of The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes. As protected bike lanes have spread from city to city across North America, a problem has followed: snow. Most protected bike lanes are too narrow for standard street plows. […]
Portland Is First U.S. City to Make Protection Default for All New Bike Lanes
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SW Moody Avenue in Portland, Oregon. Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Sometimes, the most important question in the world is “why not?” For decades, U.S. cities built roads around driving and (sometimes) walking. If people wanted to […]
Latest Trend in Protected Bike Lanes: Installation in One Year or Less
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Of all the reasons Denverites had to get excited about the two protected bike lanes their city opened Thursday, the most underrated was a feat that you maybe will only fully appreciate […]
Salt Lake City Cuts Car Parking, Adds Bike Lanes, Sees Retail Boost
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Protected bike lanes require space on the street, and removing curbside auto parking is one of several ways to find it. But whenever cities propose parking removal, retailers understandably worry. A growing […]
Massachusetts’ Bikeway Design Guide Will Be Nation’s Most Advanced Yet
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Bikeway design in this country keeps rocketing forward. The design guide that Massachusetts is planning to unveil in November shows it. The new guide, ordered up by MassDOT and prepared by Toole […]
Protected Bike Lanes 7 Times More Effective Than Painted Ones, Survey Says
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. We all know that if your goal is to get meaningful numbers of people to ride bicycles, protected bike lanes are better than conventional ones painted into a door zone. But how […]