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
One-Day Protected Bike Lane Demos Have Swept America this Summer
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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. This is what a tipping point looks like. Around the country in the summer of 2014, community groups across the United States have been using open-streets events and other festivals to give […]
How Bike-Friendly Streets Help Denmark Combat Inequality
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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. We don’t have to dream of a country where protected bike lanes and other quality bike infrastructure have dramatically improved life for poor people. We can visit it. It’s called Denmark, and […]
What the Data Tell Us About Bicycling and Household Income in America
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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. As part of the Green Lane Project’s upcoming report on the connection between transportation equity and protected bike infrastructure, I’ve been digging deeper into the difference between (as Veronica Davis put it […]
African American Cyclists — And Others — Weigh in on Race and Biking
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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. Yesterday I wrote about a complicated subject: the links between biking and race in the United States. It’s the first in an ongoing series over the next three months that will finish […]
Why Do African Americans Tend to Bike Less?
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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 took a week in Copenhagen for Albus Brooks to start thinking seriously about bicycling. The Denver City Council member, 35, had never owned a bike. By the time he headed home […]
Best Bike Cities? Forget the Census, Let’s Start Asking Mobile Apps
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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. The most popular bicycle transportation measurement system in the country is hopelessly skewed toward a niche activity. We refer, of course, to the U.S. Census. The niche activity: going to work. Most […]
What a Great Pilot Bike Lane Project Looks Like: 3 Best Practices
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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. From Calgary to Seattle to Memphis, the one-year pilot project is becoming the protected bike lane trend of 2014. Street designers looking to use the design have been putting down their digital […]
Surprise! People Aged 60-79 Are Behind More Than a Third of the Biking Boom
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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. The national surge in bicycling since 1995 may have more to do with hip surgeries than hipsters. More than a third of the increase is coming from people between the ages of […]
Memphis Turns Two Highway Lanes Into a Car-Free Oasis By the Mississippi
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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. Once you start thinking about new ways to use your city’s streets, you start to see opportunities everywhere. That’s exactly what’s happened last weekend in Memphis, Tennessee, where half of a separated […]
The Street Ballet of a Bike Lane Behind a Transit Stop at Duboce and Church
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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. Why don’t more cities escape the curse of bus-bike leap-frogging by putting bike lanes between transit platforms and sidewalks? Though “floating bus stops” and similar designs are being used in many cities, […]
The Younger You Are, the More Likely You Are to Like Protected 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. Before we totally wrap up our coverage of last week’s big new study of protected bike lanes, we couldn’t resist sharing one last detail that might be of interest to American politicians […]
There Is Now Scientific Evidence That Parking Makes People Crazy
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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. Fifth in a series. All this week, we’ve been unpacking the nuances of the first major study of protected bike lanes in the United States. Today, we’re wrapping things up by taking […]