A House committee defeated an attempt to mandate federal funding for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure Thursday morning. As TN reported earlier this week, the House wants to eliminate so-called transportation “enhancements” that require states to spend up to 10% of surface transportation money on non-highway projects like bike paths or beautification projects. At least two…
KALW’s Julie Caine overcomes her fear of speeding cars and messy helmet hair in this audio essay. Listen as Caine gets a lesson in urban cycling. Not a proverbial lesson, but a literal one, while attending a class in urban biking offered around downtown Oakland. The East Bay Bike Coalition teaches free classes in cycling…
The reviews are in on the House transportation bill: “It’s like funding a quit-smoking program by lowering the smoking age to generate more revenue from cigarette taxes.” (USPIRG statement) “It would reverse all the progress we have made in the past 20 years…horrible.” (League of American Bicyclists) “This bill is less about creating jobs and…
When New York rolls out its bike share program in July, ten thousand bikes will be spread across the city. In a place where every inch of space is contested, figuring out where to locate 600 bike share stations is no small task.
Since 1992, thousands of cyclists have gathered on the last Friday of every month to show off their bike pride by getting in the way of auto traffic on city streets in the Critical Mass demonstration rides. As part of KALW’s special bike coverage, we bring you the history of the most prominent bike protest…
Seventeen miles of bike lanes have been painted in San Francisco since summer 2010, and more are in the works, including the city’s first parking protected bikeway–a bike lane separated from car traffic by a row of parked cars. Other plans include removing a lane of parking or of traffic to lay down a dedicated bikeway….
We took KALW’s news magazine, Crosscurrents, on the road and devoted an entire show to life on two wheels in the SF Bay Area. Our intrepid (and very fit) executive news editor, Ben Trefny, hosted the show while riding 23 miles all over San Francisco. You can listen to the whole show here: In it,…
In the past, bicyclists wanting to cross Central Park had two legal choices: ride a couple of extra miles around the loop, or use the more direct — but narrow and often dangerous — transverses used by vehicles. Until now. Shortly before New Year’s, the New York City Parks Department and the Central Park Conservancy…
Leaders in Howard County, Maryland, and the unincorporated town of Columbia are trying to figure out whether something that seems to be working quite well in more urban areas can be part of the plan going forward in their neck of the woods — they’re exploring the potential of bike sharing. The two municipalities have…
Watch what happens to a fully loaded bike left to fend for itself, with a bell, basket, lights and all, and just two locks against the NYC poachers … for 356 days.
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