Streetsblog » New High-Visibility Bike Lanes in Brooklyn

Could be that the NYC Department of Transportation actually listened to groups like Transportation Alternatives, which advocates painting bike lanes a solid color in order to improve visibility and curb blockage by motor vehicles.

Streetsblog » London Releases Its Fifth Annual Congestion Pricing Study

An increase in cycling within the zone of 43 per cent. Congestion Charge generated provisional net revenues of £123m in 2006/07, which will be spent on further improvements to transport across London, particularly bus services.

Streetsblog » An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks

The new bike racks have been installed at the Bedford Avenue L subway station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As the Dept. of Transportation announces in today's press release, "The facility marks the first time car parking spaces have been removed to accommodate bikes".

BikePortland.org » Tour of Tomorrow will put policy makers in the saddle

For the third year, a who’s-who list of regional bigwigs and policy makers from Portland and Vancouver will escape from their cubicles for an up-close look at the highs-and-lows of our regional bikeway network.

BikePortland.org » Bike theft on the rise, is RFID the solution?

One idea that holds promise comes from bike theft guru and founder of StolenBicycleRegistry.com, Brian Hance. He recently published an article titled, “Open Source Bike Recovery - On The Cheap” that details the use of radio frequency identification tags.

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