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
Landmark Study Tests a Bike Network’s Effects on Safety and Ridership
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Fascinating results from a city whose bike network was literally a Communist plot.
Connecting Cities’ Scattered Bikeways Is Going to Be Harder, But Worth It
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When the low-hanging fruit has all been eaten, there's only one thing to do: climb higher.
Britain’s Forgotten Protected Bike Lane Network
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A U.K. historian is on a quest to find and reclaim hundreds of miles of protected bike lanes built across his country in the early 20th century and then abandoned.
Grassy Storm Drainage Can Be a Transportation Twofer, New Guide Shows
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If your city's transportation department and its stormwater management department were to team up to put storm drainage in just the right places, it could be a very cost-efficient way to manage runoff while creating permanent, attractive separation between bike and car traffic.
Hot Take: People Sometimes Bump Into Bike Lane Separators, and That’s OK
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People do it in cars and on bikes. It's a tradeoff worth taking.
The Main Street of Latino Culture in Providence Will Get a Bike-Walk Upgrade
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Broad Street sees more biking and walking collisions than any other street in the city.
For People of Color, Barriers to Biking Go Far Beyond Infrastructure, Study Shows
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New research from New Jersey shows huge gaps in conventional wisdom.
Memphis’s Spectacular Street Experiments Moving Toward Permanence
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It's taken a few years, but Memphians' hands-on experimentation with their streets is starting to pay off in permanent improvements.
The Country’s Newest Biking Boomtown Looks to the Next Level
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Bike transportation in New Orleans has doubled in the last few years.
Providence Is Using Bikes to Build a Future on a Freeway’s Footprint
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Fifty years ago, almost every city in the country discovered the effects a freeway has on the neighborhoods nearby. Now, one of the country's oldest cities is about to learn what happens when you move a freeway out.
Are Women Really More Risk-Averse on Bikes, or Just More Honest?
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A researcher raises some interesting skepticism.
Wichita Upgrades Guerrilla Plungers to Permanent Bike Lane Posts
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Two weeks after two rows of toilet plungers set up to temporarily protect a Wichita bike lane went viral, the city of Wichita has decided that come to think of it, those plungers were making a pretty good point.