Protected Bike Lanes

America’s best bike lanes of 2016 show how to build robust...

(Editor's Note: Yesterday we looked at how Louisville stacks up nationally in terms of bike ridership and infrastructure. Part of that involved suggestions from...

Louisville becoming a more bike friendly city, but has room for...

(Editor’s Note: As you’ve likely noticed, Broken Sidewalk has been sidelined for several months. Last Spring, I was diagnosed with Leukemia and immediately went...

Charlotte’s Protected Bike Lane vote shows the southeast’s new biking rivalry

(Editor's Note: This article cites a Charlotte bike advocate who used competition among southeastern cities as one reason to implement better bike infrastructure like...

Anatomy of a Protected Bike Lane: Infographic shows overwhelming benefits of...

Have you ever pedaled along a real Protected Bike Lane? A bike lane separated from the stress of fast-paced streets filled with speeding motorists...

Majority of U.S. mayors would back bike lanes over parking or...

Road space needs to come from somewhere. And with the nation's infrastructure budgets buckling under road maintenance costs, there's growing consensus that ever-wider roads...

Protected bike lanes and transit can work together to form safer...

Because protected bike lanes can make it comfortable for almost anyone in a city to ride a bike to a good transit station, they're...

Here are America’s ten best new bike lanes of 2015

(Editor's Note: Another year, and Louisville still isn't competing with cities serious about bike infrastructure. While the city did build a few miles of...

Louisville’s newest bike lane—and the first to get green paint—is now...

On Thursday, October 29, Louisville newest bike lane was striped on Sixth Street. As we reported in August, the new 1.4 mile stretch of...

Salt Lake City’s street redesign shows how bike lanes are good...

Protected bike lanes require space on the street, and removing curbside auto parking is one of several ways to find it. But whenever cities...