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Michael Andersen

Michael Andersen writes about housing and transportation for the Sightline Institute. He previously covered bike infrastructure for PeopleForBikes, a national bicycling advocacy organization.

Recent Posts

Providence's Jewelry District before the I-195 removal. Photo: Runaway Jim

Providence Is Using Bikes to Build a Future on a Freeway’s Footprint

By Michael Andersen | Mar 30, 2017 | No Comments
Fifty years ago, almost every city in the country discovered the effects a freeway has on the neighborhoods nearby. Now, one of the country's oldest cities is about to learn what happens when you move a freeway out.
Chicago, Illinois.

Are Women Really More Risk-Averse on Bikes, or Just More Honest?

By Michael Andersen | Mar 22, 2017 | No Comments
A researcher raises some interesting skepticism.
Map: City of Austin

Austin Is Starting 3-Year Plan To Use Bikes To Fight Congestion

By Michael Andersen | Mar 6, 2017 | No Comments
Austin's proposed biking network will increase road capacity as much as a freeway expansion.
Photo: Gerald Fittipaldi

In Baltimore, Combining Bikes and Buses to Reconnect a Car-Lite City

By Michael Andersen | Mar 2, 2017 | No Comments
In the first in a series of profiles of the 10 focus areas in the PeopleForBikes Big Jump Project, we look at Baltimore's plans to beef up frequent bus service and install a low-stress biking network in six neighborhoods.
A bike-friendly local street in southeast Copenhagen. Photos: Michael Andersen.

Side-Street Bikeways Only Pay Off If You Have Protected Bike Lanes Too

By Michael Andersen | Jan 9, 2017 | No Comments
Building bikeways only on quiet streets might actually be the worst option, one study says.
Berkeley's first protected intersection opened the week before Christmas. Video still: Bike East Bay

Protected Intersections in the U.S.: From Zero to 12 in Two Years

By Michael Andersen | Jan 3, 2017 | No Comments
The country's newest major bike-lane innovation is very young. But so far, it's spreading faster than the protected bike lane did.
At this irregular intersection in Cambridge, the city plans to improve safety with what the locals call a "peanutabout." Image via Boston Cyclists Union

The ‘Peanutabout’ Concept Could Be a Breakthrough for Diagonal Streets

By Michael Andersen | Dec 1, 2016 | No Comments
The Boston Cyclists Union shared the inspiring back story behind a new concept for the long, complex seven-way intersection created by the acute crossing of Cambridge and Hampshire streets. Like a lot of good ideas in modern American bicycling history, it involves Anne Lusk, a Harvard public health professor who's been a major brain behind the spread of protected bike lanes in the United States.

Bikes Belong on Main Streets Because Bikes Are Not Mainly for Commuting

By Michael Andersen | Nov 4, 2016 | No Comments
Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Trivia question 1: Of all the trips taken by U.S. adults, how many lead to or from somewhere other than work? The answer is 78 percent. Trivia question 2: Of all the […]

Edmonton’s Quick-Build Protected Bike Lane Grid: “A New Model” for Change

By Michael Andersen | Oct 12, 2016 | No Comments
Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities connect high-comfort biking networks. The most interesting thing about this week’s best bike infrastructure news isn’t what’s being built. It’s how it’s being built. Two years ago, the sprawling Canadian prairie metropolis of Calgary decided to buck tradition and test […]

AASHTO’s Draft Bikeway Guide Includes Protected Bike Lanes and More

By Michael Andersen | Jul 18, 2016 | No Comments
Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities connect high-comfort biking networks. As the most influential U.S. transportation engineering organization rewrites its bike guide, there seems to be general agreement that protected bike lanes should be included for the first time. A review panel appointed by the American […]

Unless US DOT Changes Course, Building Protected Bikeways May Get Tougher

By Michael Andersen | Jul 11, 2016 | No Comments
Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities connect high-comfort biking networks. “Hey, how long does it take you to get to work?” “Well, on average my car is usually traveling at 36 mph.” No actual human makes transportation decisions this way. But for some reason, the federal […]

Room to Breathe: The Feds Just Made It Easier to Fit Bike Lanes on Streets

By Michael Andersen | May 6, 2016 | No Comments
Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. A large car is less than seven feet wide. But thanks in part to an obscure federal rule, millions of miles of traffic lanes on local streets around the country are 12 […]
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