An 1899 Plan to Build A Bike Highway in Los Angeles (And Why It Failed)
Gizmodo
4/27/15
Over a century ago, the California Cycleway promised an elevated, dedicated bike path from Los Angeles to the nearby city of Pasadena. In this excerpt from the new book LAtitudes: An Angeleno’s Atlas, author Dan Koeppel tracks its path through Southern California—and discovers why it was never finished.
Bike lane improvements blooming all over SF
San Francisco Examiner
4/27/15
[…] More than 53 miles of safety improvements for new or existing bike lanes are planned for this year — an abundance not seen in San Francisco since 2012. […]
LA Times
4/24/15
[…] I’m very proud that along the very first route we did in 2010, downtown, I think 90% of it is now striped with bike lanes. And it had no stripes when we started. […]
SF Gate
4/24/15
[…] Consider this: Guns were used to murder 8,454 people in this country in 2013, but more than 32,000 people — almost four times as many — were killed on our roadways that year. […]
KATU News Portland
4/15/15
[…] a national bike group even gave the city a “platinum bike friendly community” ranking.
Now, an online petition is asking the group to strip that status, claiming the city doesn’t deserve it. […]
Chicago Sun Times
4/15/15
[…] So I don’t believe the commissioner should be able to arbitrarily decide where she wants to honor planned development obligations,” he said. […]
How Do We Protect New York City’s Pedestrians?
New York Times
April 23, 2015
[…] Longo was one of around 12,000 New York City pedestrians who were injured in traffic accidents in 2013, a statistic that has stayed fairly constant over the last five years. […] The city has deemed about 450 intersections and corridors high-priority zones, where the largest numbers of pedestrian fatalities and injuries have taken place. […]
Boston NPR WBUR 90.9
April 3, 2015
[…] There are more cyclists on the road, and more of them are getting hurt in accidents, some fatal. […] you do need research, and data, to help fix the problem — that is, reduce the number of accidents and deaths. […]
Next City
3/19/15
[…] “Every year, as many as 50 fatalities and 1,200 serious pedestrian injuries could be prevented if the City reconstructs all arterial streets with complete street design changes,” it states. […]
