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On Wednesday, Atlantic columnist Ian Bogost unleashed the full ire of bike Twitter with the publication of his essay, "The E-Bike is a Monstrosity." Streetsblog had some thoughts.

The dust is still settling, and Newsom hasn't signed on the dotted line yet

Smoking, once a celebrated totem of American culture, is increasingly an ostracized habit of the marginal few. Getting there, though, took deliberate vision, coordinated efforts, and persistent policy trial and error over decades — and those efforts reveal a partial roadmap for breaking our country’s similarly dangerous addiction to cars.

The mayor, who has been inviting her neighbors and constituents to join her on her rides, has enjoyed lots of company on her bike commutes.

How were cities regulated before zoning — and should zoning abolition be the ultimate goal?

The husband of a U.S. diplomat who survived an evacuation from war-torn Ukraine only to be killed in a car crash as she biked on a Maryland road is raising money to stop other families from having to endure similar tragedies — and urging the public to reckon with an epidemic of traffic violence that's left his children without a mother.