Insider Advice on How Best to Bike Your City
With bike use exploding across North America, The New York Times has asked its readers to submit their suggestions for how best to navigate their city streets on two wheels. Covering 16 cities, the project has received 4,614 comments to date.
On interactive maps for Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Boston, and 14 other cities, readers have pinpointed obstacles, short cuts, advisories and observations in ten words or less. Comments cover a range of local wisdom, from where recent accidents and assaults have taken place to the best routes to access bike paths and circumvent construction.
The New York maps also include a guide to "popular routes into Manhattan based on hundreds of thousands of rides taken by users of Strava, a running and cycling app."
Full Story:
Published on Friday, June 7, 2013 in
Topics
- Is There a Perfect Density?
- The Left Critiques YIMBYism
- Friday Funny: Satirizing the War on Cars
- Aurora Rising
- 100-Year-Old Law Explains Why There Are So Many Trucks on the Highway
- Imagine: A City Built for Cycling
- How Not to Do a Pedestrian Safety PSA
- $604 Million Makeover Coming to San Francisco's Market Street
- New Community Plan Poises Downtown L.A. for Transformation
- The 'Steady Decline' of Suburban America
- Testing New 'High Tech Security Screening' for Transit Users
- Study Sheds Light on the Effect of Streetlights on Crime
- County Gas Taxes at Work in Florida
- Trump's Infrastructure Plan Slow to Materialize Despite New Executive Order, Flow Chart
- Is Brownfield Development Health Risk Tolerance Out of Whack?
- Maine Town of Brunswick Completes Zoning Code Rewrite
- New Orleans Stormwater Systems Failing Again
- Corridors Are the Secret to Improving Transit in Small Cities
- San Francisco's Muni Has a New $21 Billion, 20-Year Capital Plan
- Charlottesville and the 'War Against Public Space'
