Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
Bull World Health Organ
Gary Humphreys
1 November 2021
Bogotá, Colombia
Text
800-1500 Words
Safe System design is a public health framework for preventing traffic accidents and death. The system adapts and transforms roads as part of a broader system of reforms. In Bogotá, in addition to a city-wide speed li...
15 July 2021
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Vision Zero program many cities use to reduce traffic deaths depends on data to inform where to target safety measures like redesigned streets and speed limits. But, when significant numbers of crashes, particular...
9 July 2021
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Pedestrian-activated traffic signals that flash red to allow people to cross busy streets midblock have saved lives in one of the nation's most dangerous cities for pedestrians. On one stretch of Phoenix highway where...
27 May 2021
Rochester, New York, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
One of the first cities to undo the damage that mid-20th-century urban highways did to neighborhoods has filled in a sunken highway and opened streets to new shops, pedestrians, and bikes. After more than two decades ...
26 May 2021
Bogotá, Colombia
Text
800-1500 Words
Citizen participation in meetings, door-to-door surveys, and via an open-source online platform where residents could edit and add to draft plans resulted in 7,000 citizen proposals to redesign one of Bogota’s major, ...
10 May 2021
Richmond, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A bicycle shop owned cooperatively by its worker-owners is also a nonprofit that serves its community in a number of ways. Rich City Rides plans wellness events and programs in California in addition to social bike ri...
29 April 2021
New York, New York, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Many cities created "open streets" during the pandemic, limiting traffic on certain streets to give people a safe outdoor place to relax and play. Which programs outlive the pandemic depends on a host of factors, most...
20 April 2021
Zambia
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Onyx Connect sprang from the imagination of one entrepreneur who saw how poor roads and poverty made bicycles the only practical alternative to walking great distances in southern Zambia. Onyx sells sturdy bikes with ...
22 March 2021
Berlin, Germany
Text
800-1500 Words
Bicycle education programs around the world are helping those who want to become cyclists overcome that fear while also addressing problems in their communities—from pollution to racial injustice. #BIKEYGEES in Berlin...
12 February 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Citi Bike started the NYC Critical Workers program, which offered free bike-share memberships to essential workers in New York City because of the coronavirus pandemic. The free membership started for one month but wa...
11 February 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
An early-stage startup with big plans to change bicycling culture and commuting habits has notched one victory already, with its first secure-parking pods in New York City: Out of 60,000 times they've been used, the p...
16 January 2021
South Bend, Indiana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
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...
BBC
Hope Ngo
12 January 2021
China
Text
800-1500 Words
A boom in Chinese bike-share companies sought a technology-driven transport solution for people traveling short distances. While investors were drawn to green transportation solutions, a lack of any regulatory framewo...
29 October 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A pilot project in several American cities has provided a large amount of data on how residents use streets where vehicular traffic is restricted. The initiative tested out ways to calm traffic, provide space for fami...
8 October 2020
Oakland, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
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
Text
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...
10 August 2020
Bogotá, Colombia
Text
1500-3000 Words
To help essential workers navigate the notorious traffic of Bogota, the city built over 50 miles of an emergency bike network. The plan was in place before the arrival of coronavirus but the execution was sped up to m...
7 August 2020
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Artificial intelligence and traffic cameras are being used to identify dangerous intersections in Bellevue, Washington. Data from thousands of hours of footage revealed that intersections where drivers, bikers and ped...
15 July 2020
France
Text
1500-3000 Words
Some cities are using coronavirus shutdowns as opportunities to start infrastructure projects that support car-free living and encourage walking or biking to jobs, shopping, and city services. Car-free urban developme...
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...
1 June 2020
San José, Costa Rica
Text
1500-3000 Words
The capital city of San José in Costa Rica is taking steps to become greener and less dependent on cars. By focusing on public transportation initiatives like city bikes and bike lanes, a green esplanade, and an elect...
21 May 2020
Warrenton, Virginia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As the U.S attempts to reopen, restaurant owners from California to Florida are expanding their restaurants into nearby outdoor space, including sidewalks and parking lots. In doing so, they are able to offer patrons ...
28 April 2020
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Downtown Greenway in Greensboro was already underway when the coronavirus hit and it has turned out to be quite the respite and economic boon. The Greenway draws visitors in with trails, greenways, public art, loc...
27 March 2020
New York, New York, United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
In an effort to prevent overcrowding in public spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City has closed a few streets in four out of five boroughs. This density reduction plan, though, doesn’t seem to be getting ...
9 March 2020
Noordwaard, Netherlands
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
The Dutch government bought out and relocated 200 households in high-risk areas as a way to create more space for rising water levels instead of building bigger levees. The program is called Room for the River, and mo...
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