Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Bike Boulevards

Milwaukee Forges Ahead With Its First Bike Boulevards

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 13, 2017

Milwaukee will be getting its first bike boulevards, the city announced this week, the beginning of what should eventually be a citywide network of low-traffic, low-stress streets for cycling.

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NACTO Beats the Clock With Quick Update of Bike Guide

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 6, 2012

Once again, the National Association of City Transportation Officials has proven what an agile, modern coalition of transportation agencies is capable of. It was just a year and a half ago that NACTO released its first Urban Bikeway Design Guide and today, it’s released the first update to that guide. NACTO’s guide is far ahead of the industry standard, […]

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Portland’s Bike Boulevards Become Neighborhood Greenways

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Nov 8, 2010

Transportation planners in Portland, Oregon are taking their famous bicycle boulevards to the next level. By adding more routes and stepping up the traffic calming treatments, the city is not only making these streets more attractive and usable for cyclists, but also for pedestrians, runners, children, and anyone else who gets around under their own […]

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Streetfilms: Long Beach Shifts Cycling Into High Gear

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 16, 2010

Long Beach, Los Angeles’s neighbor to the south, has started to put some serious effort into making cycling an attractive and safe mode of transportation, and it’s already paying dividends. Bicycling Magazine’s 2010 rankings for bike-friendly cities ranked Long Beach a respectable 23rd. But the city has more ambitious goals, aiming to ultimately become the […]

Streetfilms: The Case for Bicycle Boulevards in NYC

By Elizabeth Press | Dec 3, 2009 | 20 Comments

We’ve seen lots of new, innovative bikeway designs appear on New York City streets over the past few years. But there’s one very promising concept we haven’t seen — bicycle boulevards. Bicycle boulevard design uses a variety of techniques to create low-traffic, low-speed streets where cyclists mix comfortably with cars. They’re very popular in Portland […]

Wiki Wednesday: Bike Boulevards

By Ben Fried | Feb 18, 2009 | 10 Comments

The inclusion of $825 million for Transportation Enhancements in the stimulus package should help pay for a lot of bike projects. Writing for Citiwire this week, transportation analyst Sam Seskin suggests investing a chunk of that stimulus money in bicycle boulevards, as opposed to bike lanes or cycle tracks. What are bike boulevards? This week’s […]

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