Research Articles
Seville Built a Bike Network, Not a Collection of Bike Lanes
- Infrastructure
- August 18, 2026
- 13 mins
How Seville built a connected protected bike network fast, multiplied cycling, reduced risk per trip, and exposed the limits of lane mileage.
read-more →Reporting Cars in Bike Lanes: A History of Citizen Enforcement
- Policy
- July 5, 2026
- 17 mins
How cyclists turned smartphones into an enforcement tool—from 311 and Bike Lane Uprising to Bike Bureau's open data and fast-growing Boston-area reporting network.
read-more →Traffic Calming Saves Lives
- Safety
- January 10, 2026
- 15 mins
How traffic-calming implementations in the US have contributed to pedestrian safety.
read-more →NYC Congestion Pricing: What It Is, Why It Works, and What to Watch
- Policy
- December 20, 2025
- 11 mins
A research-backed guide to NYC congestion pricing: how cordon tolls reduce gridlock, fund transit, affect equity, and what lessons London and Stockholm offer.
read-more →The Right Hook: Why Protected Lanes Still Kill at Intersections
- Infrastructure Safety
- December 20, 2025
- 8 mins
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.
read-more →The Importance of Covering Your Eyes When Biking
- Safety
- December 18, 2025
- 9 mins
Why cyclists should treat eye protection as essential safety gear, from debris and UV to glare, reaction time, and long-term vision health.
read-more →How a Traffic Filter in Oxford Became a Global Conspiracy
- Policy
- December 17, 2025
- 10 mins
How a mundane traffic filter scheme in Oxford morphed into a global ‘15-minute city’ conspiracy, and what it reveals about car-brain politics and urban planning.
read-more →The Reason Our Streets Switched to Cul-De-Sacs
- Infrastructure
- December 16, 2025
- 16 mins
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.
read-more →Paris After the Car
- Infrastructure
- December 15, 2025
- 12 mins
Paris shows how a car-choked capital can quickly become quieter, cleaner, and more livable, and what other gridlocked cities can copy.
read-more →Super Commuters and the Price of Distance in the American Dream
- Policy
- December 14, 2025
- 16 mins
How housing costs, megaregions, and policy choices turned long commutes and super commuting into a normal part of American life—and what it would take to live closer to everything again.
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