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16 January 2021
South Bend, Indiana, United States
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Reconfiguring streets to slow automobile traffic through its downtown business district and encourage pedestrians and bicycling enlivened South Bend's street life and proved a boon to its restaurants and other busines...
6 January 2021
United States
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800-1500 Words
American cars made since the early 1980s have carried ratings from the federal New Car Assessment Program, showing how risky they are to human life in a crash. NCAP ratings motivated a host of safety enhancements by m...
8 October 2020
Oakland, California, United States
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Oakland is making an effort to make city planning more equitable to include the needs of communities of color. "Esential Places" is the second iteration of a program that started off as "Slow Streets" and was criticiz...
24 September 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Five years after Los Angeles launched its Vision Zero program to reduce traffic fatalities, the numbers of pedestrians and cyclists killed on city streets have soared. By relying too heavily on the racially fraught an...
3 June 2020
Nairobi, Kenya
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
In Nairobi, as in other major cities around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted travelers away from mass transit to bicycling for social distancing purposes. This presents policy and safety challenges, as man...
9 January 2020
Oslo, Norway
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Under 800 Words
Oslo, Norway saw zero pedestrian and cyclist deaths in 2019. The success comes from infrastructure redesign, increased traffic enforcement, overall policy prioritization of road safety, and collaboration between resid...
21 November 2019
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
An extensive investigation that, despite implementing an initiative called "Vision Zero" that aims to eliminate traffic and pedestrian fatalities, many cities still struggle to reduce the number of fatalities, year-ov...
11 November 2019
District of Columbia, Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
As the District lagged on its Vision Zero goals, bike and pedestrian advocates in Washington turned traffic fatalities into a rallying cry, and got results.
17 October 2019
San Francisco, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
A plan to redesign Market Street in San Francisco uses a controversial approach used by cities around the world: eliminating personal cars entirely. This bicycle, pedestrian and bus-oriented layout approach reduces tr...
7 October 2019
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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800-1500 Words
In order to cut back on automotive emissions and traffic within the city center, Amsterdam has introduced road-dividing "cuts" - called "knips" in Dutch - along major roadways to make travel in the city center easier ...
27 September 2019
London, England
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1500-3000 Words
In an effort to promote safe streets and bicycle and pedestrian safety, Officials in Tower Hamlets, an East London neighborhood, closed down a main community road to car traffic - and it didn't go well. But local offi...
25 February 2019
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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800-1500 Words
To encourage commuters to shift from driving to biking, cities across Europe have tried out a mileage fee earned for commuting via bicycle, often tax-free. Leaders are learning this needs to be coupled with other ince...
22 February 2019
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Under 800 Words
With community support from a network of neighborhood volunteers and financial support from a local business, the Bike Streets Project makes biking more accessible for those “interested, but concerned” about road safe...
28 January 2019
Bari, Italy
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A city in Southern Italy is starting a program that pays commuters to cycle to work on the heels of similar successful programs in France and the Netherlands. While more cycling can mean improved public health and low...
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Mark Wessel
24 January 2019
Buffalo, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
In western New York, local bike advocacy groups have found power in numbers, banding together to gradually convince their governments to expand cycling access and communities to change their attitudes toward cyclists....
9 January 2019
Netherlands
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Under 800 Words
Illinois and Massachusetts have adopted a new traffic safety measure in its road safety manuals. Coined the “Dutch reach,” the international maneuver consists of a person opening their car door with their far hand. Do...
22 December 2018
New Delhi, India
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800-1500 Words
Nearly 25,000 bicyclists died in crashes in a five year span in India, but reflective tape has the potential to help. Reflective tape, which withstands conditions a typical reflector does not, helps improve the visibi...
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Eliot Yang
29 November 2018
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Under 800 Words
A resident of South Los Angeles addressed a gap in mobility justice by creating a pop-up bike shop and repair service in his community. The shop, operated as a co-op, helps cyclists navigate the often unfriendly L.A. ...
15 October 2018
Eindhoven, Netherlands
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Over 3000 Words
The Dutch city of Eindhoven was built around the car, even into the 1970s, but as part of remaking itself after its main industries declined or moved away, it has made a dramatic shift to emphasizing cycling. City off...
12 October 2018
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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800-1500 Words
Milwaukee is poised to pass a complete streets policy that would advance current efforts to make the city more bike- and pedestrian-friendly. But even without this policy in place, projects to widen sidewalk and impro...
5 October 2018
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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800-1500 Words
A retired doctor in Massachusetts created a project to push for more places to adopt the robust culture of cycling and motorist safety from the Netherlands by training everyone in the “Dutch Reach.” Two states have it...
18 September 2018
Pontevedra, Spain
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800-1500 Words
Rather than attempt to change traffic flow, the city of Pontevedra cut straight to the source of their congestion frustrations; they eliminated cars from their streets entirely. The city center, which now fills to the...
17 September 2018
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Minneapolis, the nonprofit behind the city's bike share system plans to expand with a dockless model that will bring bikes into more neighborhoods while addressing some of the issues that model has encountered in o...
14 September 2018
Zwolle, Netherlands
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Under 800 Words
What do you get when you combine the efforts of an engineering company with an energy company? In the Netherlands, you get a new type of environmentally sustainable roads. PlasticRoads, a piloted initiative in the cit...
28 August 2018
Netherlands
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Over 3000 Words
Most people in Holland ride a bicycle every week thanks to a widespread public commitment to a biking culture and infrastructure where everyone feels welcome. That includes very visible dedicated bike paths designed f...
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