Michael Andersen
Michael Andersen writes about housing and transportation for the Sightline Institute. He previously covered bike infrastructure for PeopleForBikes, a national bicycling advocacy organization.
Recent Posts
Connecting Cities’ Scattered Bikeways Is Going to Be Harder, But Worth It
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When the low-hanging fruit has all been eaten, there's only one thing to do: climb higher.
Grassy Storm Drainage Can Be a Transportation Twofer, New Guide Shows
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If your city's transportation department and its stormwater management department were to team up to put storm drainage in just the right places, it could be a very cost-efficient way to manage runoff while creating permanent, attractive separation between bike and car traffic.
Hot Take: People Sometimes Bump Into Bike Lane Separators, and That’s OK
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People do it in cars and on bikes. It's a trade-off worth making.
For People of Color, Barriers to Biking Go Far Beyond Infrastructure, Study Shows
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New research from New Jersey shows huge gaps in conventional wisdom.
Are Women Really More Risk-Averse on Bikes, or Just More Honest?
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A researcher raises some interesting skepticism.
The Motherland of Soul Is Getting an All-Ages Biking Network
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Even as South Memphis has left deep marks on U.S. culture, its neighborhoods themselves have suffered. Now the city is working through many channels to reverse that -- one of which is putting the district at the front of the queue to get one of the country's first connected networks of all-ages bikeways.
Austin Is Starting a Three-Year Plan to Fight Congestion With Bikes
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Its proposed biking network will increase road capacity as much as a freeway expansion.
In Baltimore, Combining Bikes and Buses to Reconnect a Car-Lite City
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In the first in a series of profiles of the 10 focus areas in the PeopleForBikes Big Jump Project, we look at Baltimore's plans to beef up frequent bus service and install a low-stress biking network in six neighborhoods.
The Dutch’s Beloved Bikeway Design Manual Just Got an Update
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The guide to Dutch bikeway engineering is a critical darling, at least among the nation's hipper street designers.
Side-Street Bikeways Only Pay Off If You Have Protected Bike Lanes Too
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Building bikeways only on quiet streets might actually be the worst option, one study says.
Protected Intersections in the U.S.: From Zero to Twelve in Two Years
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The country's newest major bike-lane innovation is very young. But so far, it's spreading faster than the protected bike lane did.
The ‘Peanutabout’ Concept Could Be a Breakthrough for Diagonal Streets
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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. Wickedly good biking ideas continue to pop up in Massachusetts. Last year, it unveiled the country’s best state-level bikeway design guide and Cambridge opened the country’s best new bike lane on Western […]