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Surprisingly, Texas Gets Bike Friendly
A decade ago, looking for signs of bike friendly improvements in Texas was like looking for life on Mars. Gas was cheap, sprawl was kicking into overdrive, and local and state governments committed...
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NACTO Guide A Simple Menu For Bike-Friendliness
Municipal engineers design the roads in your city. Those local engineers draw influence from two federal guides: AASHTO and MUTCD. To make a long story short, those two guides are behind the curve on...
View ArticleSeattle Gets Top Honors for Walk-Friendliness
On April 26, the Walk Friendly Communities program announced the first round of walk-friendly communities. Seattle sits atop the list because of pedestrian-focused planning and engineering, outreach...
View ArticleTrains + Bikes = Magic
I’m convinced that this combination of trains + bikes is magical. Magic that disappears with the tether of an automobile. Cars take you where everyone goes, and you see what everyone sees. Trains,...
View ArticleTexas to Spend $4 Billion on 28 Mile Megaproject
As Texas legislators prepare to cut $4 billion from education, they also plan to spend $4.4 billion on a 28 mile expansion of Interstate 35E between Dallas and Denton. The expansion would more than...
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India Empowers Students With Free Bicycles
Photo by Nitish Kumar Bihar is the least literate state in India, with women’s literacy as low as 33 percent. Now the government says a bicycle-reward program is turning that number around. In the last...
View ArticleChicago to Build First of Many Cycletracks
We’ve mentioned Chicago’s plan to build cycletracks, and now we see they’re going to unveil the pilot cycletrack in one week. On June 17, Chicago will unveil a protected bike lane, aka “cycletrack“, on...
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Bikelash in Arlington, TX
Arlington, TX, the largest US city without public transit, narrowly approved a weakened Bike Plan this week after outraged opposition fought the plan with a litany of criticism. Opponents complained...
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