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
Protected Bike Lanes Make the “Interested But Concerned” Feel Safer Biking
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If you like painted bike lanes, you’ll probably love protected bike lanes. That’s a key finding from the first academic study of U.S. protected lanes, released this week, which surveyed 1,111 users of eight protected lanes in five cities around the country and 2,301 people who live near them. Among people whose most important reason for […]
Protected Bike Lanes Attract Riders Wherever They Appear
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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. Second in a series. The data has been trickling in for years in Powerpoint slides and stray tweets: On one street after another, even in the bike-skeptical United States, adding a physical […]
Get Ready for a Landmark Study of America’s Protected Bike Lanes
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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. It’s a sign of how new the modern protected bike lane is to the United States that we haven’t actually known very much about them, scientifically speaking. Until now. Most academic studies […]
Real Talk: Why the Mayor of Memphis Is Building Protected Bike Lanes
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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. While the Green Lane Project team was interviewing smart people around the country for our new video about the rise of protected bike lanes, we asked Mayor AC Wharton of Memphis why he’s […]
Anthony Foxx Kicks Off Nationwide Project for Better Bike Lanes
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Staring down a highway trust fund that he described as “teetering toward insolvency” by August or September, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Monday that better bike infrastructure projects are part of the solution. “When you have a swelling population like the USA has and will have for the next 35 years, one of the […]