How Protective are Protected Bike Lanes?
Protected bike lanes are popping up everywhere in the Boston area and around the country. These newfangled facilities, where the bike lane is separated from tra...
Category: Sidepaths
Dooring is Real. So Stop Putting Bike Lanes in the Door Zone
I have been doing some research about bike lanes and on-street parking over the past few years and have found: Most crash data sources do not include crashes wh...
The More Things Change
the American biking community itself split, violently, in the eighteen-nineties, between those who were in favor of dedicated bike paths and those who mistruste...
Bicycle Guidelines and Crash Rates on Cycle Tracks in the United States
Anne Lusk and her collaborators have published a paper in the American Journal of Public Health claiming that “the risk of bicycle–vehicle crashes is lowe...
Out of The Frying Pan
In a recent column, Derrick Z. Jackson of The Boston Globe makes this observation about city cycling: “But for the most part, the streets still belong to ...
Save the Bike Lanes on Concord Ave!
Concord Avenue north of Fresh Pond in Cambridge has perfectly nice, five-foot bike lanes. They’re not even in the door zone, since there is no on-street p...