Infrastructure

San Francisco’s Bike Lane Battles: Valencia, JFK, and the Great Highway

How San Francisco’s battles over Valencia Street, JFK Promenade, and the Great Highway reveal the politics and data behind reallocating space from cars.

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Barcelona’s Superblocks: When Traffic Lanes Became Public Squares

How Barcelona’s superblocks reclaim streets from cars, cut pollution and noise, and spark fierce debates about business, gentrification, and the right to the city.

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Bicycle Snow Plows and the Cities That Clear a Path

How cities and DIY tinkerers use bikes and small plows to keep winter bike lanes clear—and what it means when bicycles start doing car jobs.

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The Infrastructure That Brings Women Back to Bikes

Women aren’t ‘less into cycling’—they’re less into getting hit by cars. Here’s the street design that reliably closes the gender gap in biking.

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Paris After the Car

Paris shows how a car-choked capital can quickly become quieter, cleaner, and more livable, and what other gridlocked cities can copy.

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The Right Hook: Why Protected Lanes Still Kill at Intersections

Protected bike lanes save lives mid-block, but many serious crashes still happen at intersections. Here’s why right hooks remain deadly—and how better design plus tools like Loud Bicycle horns can help.

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The Reason Our Streets Switched to Cul-De-Sacs

How federal housing policy, neighborhood-unit planning, and engineering manuals pushed North American streets from walkable grids to cul-de-sacs—and what that means for safety, traffic, and active travel.

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Why Women in the US Don't Bike as Much as Men

In Utrecht, women ride bikes as much as, or more than men. But in Chicago, men dominate the bike lanes. The difference isn’t culture or biology; it’s how the streets are built.

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Why Your Bike Lane Ends at Every Intersection (And How the Dutch Fixed This)

Why bike lanes vanish at intersections, how Dutch-style protected junctions solve it, and what North American cities can copy right now.

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