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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, […]

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 […]

Build parking spaces and they will come — in cars. New research presented this week at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board finds a direct, causal relationship between the amount of parking in cities and car commuting rates. University of Wisconsin researcher Chris McCahill and his team examined nine “medium-sized” cities — with relatively stable […]

The new year is right around the corner and it’s time to take stock of the year that’s passed. In 2015, we saw some painful setbacks and some important strides in the national movement for better walking, biking, and transit. You determine the winners and losers of 2015 with your votes. Yesterday we asked you to vote on […]

Alex Ihnen at NextSTL uncovered this video from a 1965 television program about traffic and commuting in the St. Louis region. Noting the growing number of businesses in the suburbs with “free parking,” the narrator asks, “Who needs to go downtown at all?” This leads to a vision of the future that turned out to be eerily […]