Eyes on the Street: Elston Bike Lanes Are Clogged With Cars Northwest of “The Hotdog”
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An annoying issue on Elston has a silver lining -- it suggests that protected bike lanes could work on this stretch.
Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about bike lanes
Florida DOT Gets Much-Deserved Mockery for Failing to Make Bridges Safe for Cycling
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A protected bike lane on every bridge. That's the kind of policy that could make a real difference for Florida and improve the state's terrible bike safety record. But it's still just a dream.
CDOT Has Been Busy Installing Bikeways This Spring
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It’s prime time for laying thermoplastic pavement markings, so the Chicago Department of Transportation has been hustling to install new bike lanes and Neighborhood Greenways.
Britain’s Forgotten Protected Bike Lane Network
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A U.K. historian is on a quest to find and reclaim hundreds of miles of protected bike lanes built across his country in the early 20th century and then abandoned.
Street by Street, DC Builds Out a Center-City Protected Bikeway Network
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There are now nearly 16 miles of protected bike lanes in Washington, DC.
Atlanta Looks for Options Where Bidirectional Protected Bike Lanes Intersect
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities connect high-comfort biking networks. Bidirectional protected bike lanes, which put both directions of bike traffic on the same side of a street, aren’t ideal. But they can be useful in a pinch. Like all protected bike lanes, well-designed bidirectionals are […]
Milwaukee Bike Lane Overhaul Includes Some Concrete Protection
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Note: Keating Law Offices, P.C. has generously agreed to sponsor two Streetsblog Chicago posts about bicycle safety topics per month. The firm’s support will help make Streetsblog Chicago a sustainable project. Chicago’s busiest cycling street is receiving some safety improvements, including a segment of bike lanes with concrete protection. Milwaukee Avenue, nicknamed “The Hipster Highway” […]
Avoid Bikelash By Building More Bike Lanes
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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. Here’s one reason the modern biking boom is great for everyone: more bicycle trips mean fewer car trips, which can mean less congestion for people in cars and buses. But there’s a […]
CDOT Tries Out a New Kind of Bikeway on Lincoln Avenue: “Barrows”
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The Chicago Department of Transportation has a toolbox of different bikeway treatments: neighborhood greenways, protected bike lanes, buffered bike lanes, and shared lane markings, also known as “sharrows.” Now they’re experimenting with a new kind of treatment that consists of sharrows — bike symbols with chevrons — with a striped buffer painted on the right. […]
Vote to Decide the Best Urban Street Transformation of 2014
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If you’re searching for reasons to feel positive about the future, the street transformations pictured below are a good start. Earlier this month we asked readers to send in their nominations for the best American street redesigns of 2014. These five are the finalists selected by Streetsblog staff. They include new car-free zones, substantial sidewalk […]
Pittsburgh Business Leaders See Bikeways as Cure for Road-Space Shortage
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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. Downtown Pittsburgh has a perfectly good reason to be running out of room for more cars: Its streets have been there since 1784. “In Pittsburgh, we have too many cars chasing too […]