According to a report prepared for the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation by a few people with PhDs, cycling infrastructure generally has a positive effect on cyclists without negatively impacting motorists. A survey of Portland, Oregon cycle track users found that 70% of respondents [thought] the cycle track made cycling safer and easier. Motorists…
Utility Cycling
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Road Diet
Road Diet
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Traffic Calming
Traffic Calming
The Bicycle City Trailer
The Bicycle City Trailer
Bicycle Signage: Signs, Markings & Signals
Bicycle signage is implemented to guide cyclists and to improve roadway safety for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers. There are three general categories of signage, including posted signs, roadway markings and electronic signals, and within these categories, there are numerous variations.Signs for cyclists are typically wayfinding signs placed at intersections where bikeways or bike routes are…
Carrying Your Stuff: Cargo Bicycles
There is more than one way to skin a cat just like there is more than one way to transport such unfortunate cats or other things on your bicycle. To be exact, there are three widely used, reliable ways to carry stuff on you bicycle. We’ve looked at carrying stuff by bike in Bicycling Bags…
National Bike Summit Ride
National Bike Summit Ride
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Congestion Pricing
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Congestion Pricing
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Bus Rapid Transit
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Bus Rapid Transit
Floating Parking & Bike Buffer Zones
Floating Parking & Bike Buffer Zones
Tips for Riding in the Rain
Tips for Riding in the Rain
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Car Sharing
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Car Sharing
Gary Fisher Commutes By Bike
Gary Fisher Commutes By Bike
Me and My Bike
Me and My Bike
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Bicycling
Moving Beyond the Automobile: Bicycling
Cycling & the Media in the Netherlands
Cycling & the Media in the Netherlands
Moving Beyond the Automobile Series
Moving Beyond the Automobile Series
Bicycles and Public Transportation
When given the choice to ride a bike or to take the Metro (rail or bus), I would love to be able to choose the bike every single time. But, the reality of living in a city like DC (and most cities across the country) is that sometimes combining methods of transportation is necessary to…
Bike Church Tool Cooperative
Bike Church Tool Cooperative
Carrying Your Stuff: Bicycle Cargo Trailers
Last April, we covered the most common methods for transporting goods on a bicycle in Stacey Moses’s article Carrying Your Stuff: Bicycle Bags and Racks. Now it is time to turn our utility cycling obsessed brains in the direction of a less frequently used method for transporting goods by bicycle, bicycle cargo trailers. Though used…
Riding in the Winter
Riding in the Winter
Youth Bike Summit
Youth Bike Summit
Emergency & Patrol Services by Bike
One of our goals for the year 2011 is to complete our “dictionary” of Utility Cycling. In our 2010 Utility Cycling Year in Review, I listed out all of the categories and subcategories of utility cycling that we have conceptualized over the last year and a half. While we have written on many of the…
Bicycle Count Data
Bicycle Count Data