Category Archives: Bike facilities
Madison 5th Best Cycling City in US … so far
According to the new site Bike Score, Madison is ranked the 5th most “bikeable” city in the US. Announced during bike to work week, the new rankings comes from the creators the creators of Walk Score and Transit Score. Bike Score launched the new site with rankings for ten major (populations more than 200,000) U.S. cities: To request Bike [...]
Get Outta My Bike Lane! Hot Tips For Effective Advocacy
Recently there was a thread on the Milwaukee bike to work listserv about some problematic stretches of bike lanes on a couple different city streets. The thread began with a complaint that motorists were ignoring a bike lane and just driving in it like it is a regular travel lane. The thread shifted to another [...]
City of La Crosse embraces parkland
Thank you to the City of La Crosse Common council who voted unanimously Thursday evening to designate a 160 acre city property, part of La Crosse’s Blufflands, to forever be a park and not developed. 4,500 supporters signatures 1,100 Facebook Supporters 100+ in attendance A special thanks you to; Tim Keneipp for drafting and distrubuting the petition, Michelle Jerome for [...]
Bicycle Boulevards Evolve Into Greenways
Bicycle Boulevards have proven to be incredibly successful in Portland and other cities where they have been installed. They offer a lot of advantages that bike lanes don’t. In addition to providing a pleasant place to ride a bike, they slow motor vehicle traffic, making neighborhood streets more pleasant and safe for the residents. This [...]
WisDOT: No Bikes On Hoan
This afternoon, the Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation released the announcement below that they will not accommodate bicycles or pedestrians on the Hoan Bridge. While this is certainly a severe blow to the decade-long efforts to fill the missing link in the 162 mile long Lake Michigan Trail Network, the staff at the Bike Fed have [...]
Inspiration from the Big Apple
Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with how impressed we are at how fast New York City, once a bicycle desert, has been transformed into what is perhaps the most bicycle-friendly big city in the country. After a visit to NYC for a conference earlier this year, I reported in a blog posting [...]
Videos of Three Chicago Commutes
This week there were three very different videos published of bicycle commuting south of the Cheddar Curtain. Taken as a group, I think they provide tremendous insight into the state of bicycle infrastructure in the United States and help to answer why less than one percent of people bike to work even though nearly half [...]
Saved: W. Main Contraflow Lane in Madison!
Road users tend to violate the laws they can get away with breaking if doing so gets them where they are going faster. Many motorists speed, most pedestrians won’t wait for the walk signal if no cars are coming, and bicyclists sometimes ride on sidewalks if they don’t have a safe or convenient place to [...]
Is Wisconsin Slow To Change?
Friends and regular readers know I am a big booster for Wisconsin and a proud life-long resident of Milwaukee. I am usually the first one to say what a great place this is to live and ride a bicycle. The Bicycle Federation has even been criticized for being an institutionalized booster for anything cycling related [...]
Overflow Crowd At Hoan Meeting
Even with the Packers-Vikings game on Monday Night Football nearly 300 people pedaled and drove to last night’s public information meeting about a bike path on the Hoan Bridge. While the Packers easily trounced the Vikings on the frozen tundra later that night, path proponents at the meeting made the case that Minneapolis continues to [...]
