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PeopleForBikes' 2023 Industry Community Grants Recipients
December 13th, 2023
On December 12, the PeopleForBikes Coalition Board of Directors approved our 2023 Industry Community Grants recipients, totaling $100,000 in funding across 13 grants. The grants will help fund projects that support our focus on building infrastructure that makes communities great places to ride a bi ...
The Best New U.S. Bike Lanes
January 27th, 2023
With more protected bike lanes and low-stress bike networks being built across the country than ever before, we had a tough time picking this past year’s best new bike lanes. While numerous projects deserve recognition, we rounded up the top nine projects worth emulating. ...
A Proven Model for Accelerating Bike Networks
May 20th, 2022
In 2018, PeopleForBikes set out to accelerate the construction of mobility networks in five U.S. cities — Austin, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Denver, Colorado and Providence, Rhode Island. The project, dubbed the Final Mile, in partnership with Wend Collective, was succe ...
Five of the Best New Bikeways
January 14th, 2022
These 2021 builds are all more than just bike lanes — they represent political wins, Complete Streets projects and crucial connections that make up comprehensive bike networks. ...
Inclusion on Main Street
September 13th, 2021
A 1.5-mile stretch of Broad Street in Providence, Rhode Island, is slated for a holistic mobility upgrade and community engagement is an integral part of the plan. ...
How 5 Cities Are Breaking Down Barriers to Biking
March 25th, 2021
Bike advocates in Austin, Denver, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Providence share how they’re already using recent recommendations from Charles T. Brown and other researchers. ...
“Where America Fails, So Have We in Bicycling.”
March 4th, 2021
A candid conversation with Charles T. Brown, the lead investigator of a new, groundbreaking report on barriers to biking in the U.S. ...
America's Best New Bikeways of 2020
December 18th, 2020
We can all agree, 2020 was tougher than anyone anticipated. As the year began, planning for a pandemic could only be described as a fantastical thought exercise, but by March the realities of COVID-19 reached all corners of America, dramatically changing nearly every aspect of people’s lives. ...
Making Changes Takes Support
December 27th, 2018
PFB’s Big Jump Project continues to provide resources for cities pushing boundaries to accelerate the rate of change. This year, our collaboration with local governments and non-profit organizations yielded big results in a handful of cities. ...
In Providence, City Development Relies on Bikes
November 20th, 2018
Cities evolve. Like people, they grow and change. Providence, Rhode Island, is one place undergoing serious and exciting changes, many of which have to do with bike infrastructure and bike sharing. ...
America’s Best Medium Cities for Biking
October 2nd, 2018
Some of the very best cities for bicycling in the nation are relatively compact —that’s one of the findings from the PlacesForBikes City Ratings, a data-driven comparison of cities based on factors such as the connectivity of their networks, cities’ investment in growing bicycling, ridership and saf ...
Providence Uses Creative Outreach to Build Support for Better Biking
August 10th, 2018
How can a city build community support for a sweeping overhaul of its streetscape that spans eight diverse neighborhoods, crosses private property and lays down a network of protected bike lanes? ...