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Alternative Transportation
Blog post
With a little help and encouragement, active and micro modes, including walking, bicycling, scooters, e-bikes, and their variants, can provide huge benefits.
Despite Houston's reputation for sprawl, the city has made impressive efforts to build out its bike infrastructure.
Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research
A new survey reveals broad support for a less car-centric approach to capital investment in the city of New York.
Gothamist
The North American Bikeshare Association released the first-ever state of the industry report for active forms of micromobility—i.e., bike share and electric scooter rental companies.
Smart Cities Dive
A nationwide network of bike and pedestrian trails could give drivers new options for planning their next cross-country adventure.
Fast Company
The city of Houston is embarking on an ambitious plan to reshape how new development in the city prioritizes walkability, and deprioritizes the automobile.
Houston Chronicle
Feature
An interview with Kurt Kaminer, founder of the Bike Share Museum in Miami.
Bike share data from six U.S. cities offer insight into how Americans have changed travel patterns during the pandemic.
Citymetric
As economies begin to reopen around the world, some cities are taking action to prevent widespread gridlock.
The New York Times
Introducing the proposed Queens Ribbon Bridge, a $100 million idea to connect Manhattan to Long Island City in Queens, by way of Roosevelt Island.
The New York Times
City officials in New York are discussing the possibility of converting a car traffic lane on the Brooklyn Bridge for use by people on bikes.
Brooklyn Paper
Shared bike companies in China report that many residents in Wuhan have been relying on bikes for transportation in the immediate aftermath of a 76-day lockdown.
China Daily
Suddenly, cars aren't the first priority on 10 percent of the roadway in Oakland, California.
KRON
Four predictions for the future of the conspicuous, controversial dockless scooter rental industry.
CityLab
All these newfangled devices and no universal nomenclature.
The City Fix
This performance ranking separates the fakers from the legit operation to reduce carbon emissions from transportation.
Streetlight Data
Banning cars will not be effective as long as U.S. cities continue to prioritize transportation systems where mobility is dependent on driving.
Brookings
The world, including the United States, could be entering a new era of personal mobility.
The Verge
The consequences of car-centric planning are clear, a century after cars took over streets and lives across this country. According to this article, so to is a new way forward.
Citymetric
Men are twice as likely to ride electric scooters and related small, electric assist vehicles, according to new research.
CityLab