With the numerous benefits that widespread e-bike adoption could bring to New York State, a state-wide e-bike incentive program would…
Part 1: Why e-bikes? What if I told you that there was a low-cost transportation policy measure that New York…
Buying an e-bike is expensive. Starting last year, a local startup is providing low-cost, self-charging e-bike libraries to low-income communities…
A recent study shows that a separated bike lane installed in Cambridge, Massachusetts has been a resounding success. The study conducted by…
The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) has been awarded a $7 million grant through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets…
Indianapolis will be the first U.S. city to offer all its residents free annual bike share passes on Pacers Bike…
The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is releasing a new tool to inform local public agencies of corridors where pedestrians…
A recent consumer study conducted by specialty outdoor retailer REI Co-op has unveiled significant insights into the barriers and opportunities…
Roughly two-thirds of respondents to an REI Co-op survey said they would ride bikes more if protected bike lanes and…
To support inter-modal transportation and National Bike to Work Week, Davenport CitiBus, Bettendorf Transit, and the Illinois Quad Cities Metro public…
Are you ready to imagine a world where transportation is not only accessible but also sustainable? Do you want your…
Rails to Trails Conservancy, the nation’s largest trails, walking and biking advocacy organization, today marked five years of progress toward…
The Better Bike Share Partnership, a collaboration between PeopleForBikes, the City of Philadelphia, and the National Association of City Transportation…
Electric bicycle rebates have exploded in popularity in North America as transportation planners try to get people out of their…
A combination of new technologies is paving the path forward for increased public safety on the road when it comes…
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According to a report by John Greenfield in Streetsblog Chicago, the Divvy bike share system is installing new docks at its stations…
A new program titled ‘South Central Power Up’, is offering free electronic bikes through a new e-bike lending library pilot…
A RAISE grant recently awarded to Kenosha, WI is going to be used to create bike trails in a former railroad corridor.
The “Bike Bus” is returning this spring – and expanding – as part of an effort to encourage students to…
Official measurements have found that Paris is rapidly becoming a city of transportation cyclists. The survey of how people now…
The number of cyclists who died in traffic crashes reached the highest number in 2022 since the federal government started…
Over $830 million in one-time funding awarded through the Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods program will advance projects that focus solely…
More than 160 e-bike purchase incentive programs currently exist in the United States and Canada. An author of a report…
At a Capital Regional District (CRD) transportation committee meeting, Victoria Council member Dave Thompson spearheaded a motion, now awaiting CRD…
E-bikes have captured widespread attention across the U.S., and for good reason. They are the most energy-efficient way to move from place to place,…
New research from the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF), an advocacy group based in Brussels, has confirmed that if a city…
Updating Caltrans’ Highway Design Manual takes a long time, so it’s frustrating but not that surprising that Caltrans’ Design Information…
Glasgow offers free bikeshare memberships The promotion is part of the CoMoUK’s Shared Transport for All project and aims to…
Commuting by bike is touted for reducing carbon emissions and traffic congestion while improving health. The physical benefits, such as…
When it comes to recent improvements to bike lanes, Nashville is getting noticed. The recently-completed project bringing new, protected bike…
These American-made cells have grown from a partnership between Nanotech Energy, Soteria Battery Innovation Group and Voltaplex Energy, who are…
Ever heard of the Buffalo Bike? It probably doesn’t look like the flashy, lightweight, or streamlined bicycles we normally see.…
Forest is boosting access to shared e-bikes amongst older people with its Friends of the Forest scheme, following feedback from…
Norway is looked upon by the rest of the world as the model on how we all can help reduce…
In 2022, the latest year complete data is available, 201 people were killed on Chicago’s roadways. Traffic crashes, injuries and deaths have…
Dramatic videos and phone footage of a fire in a Toronto subway car Sunday afternoon after an e-bike and its battery…
The most effective way to reduce transportation emissions is to expand access to and improve infrastructure for alternative modes of…
While many predicted that a shared electric scooter ban could have a knee-jerk reaction to return to larger vehicles, a…
The Circles Campaign of the Mid-Ohio Valley is a local nonprofit dedicated to helping families get out of poverty permanently.…
CycleRAP is an international program that assesses road safety on bike routes in five cities across the globe. Fayetteville was…
E-bikes can be a critical mobility aid for seniors or people with disabilities — but the first step is getting those…
In a move to enhance sustainable transportation options, the Department of Economic and Sustainable Development in Bloomington announces the launch…
According to a 2020 study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute, protected bike…
To encourage more biking (less driving) for everyday trips, Ride Illinois initiated “I Can Bike There” in June, partnering with Pointz and Working…
New physical barriers separating bike from vehicle lanes in Boulder have been installed along a busy stretch of roadway in…
Faced with a seven-figure gap in its operating budget and unable to find a corporate sponsor, Houston BCycle, the city’s…
A recent ruling by the EU Court of Justice was just released which officially classifies electric bicycles as bicycles, and not motor vehicles. Technically…
RMI’s new e-bike calculator helps city policymakers and advocates quantify the environmental and economic benefits of replacing short-distance vehicle trips…
The city has been investing in infrastructure like protected and unprotected bike lanes and greenway systems. A look at the…
he bike share service has been in service opened back on May 25, 2017, and allowed anyone who needed a…
The new law, which is effective retroactively to January 1, 2023, will let taxpayers deduct a much broader range of…
Glasgow’s cycling parking hubs are accessed through the free Cyclehoop app and will allows users to find vacant spaces, add…
There might be a few cases of transportation funding whiplash at Portland City Council today. After the grim reality of…
A new report reveals that bicycle trips in the US have increased by 37 per cent from 2019 to 2022,…
After the recent announcement that Houston’s popular BCycle bike-share program is scheduled for closure because of funding problems, Houston METRO…
After a rough few years and a failure to secure the funding needed to continue the program, Houston’s BCycle bike share program…
If you’re a cyclist in San Francisco I’m guessing you will be massively jealous of the Trampe Bicycle Lift, located in…
Income-qualified Santa Monica residents are one step closer to an opportunity to receive up to $2,000 toward a new e-bike,…
Most e-bikes are powered by lithium, which has its environmental and social downsides. But there’s now a lithium-free alternative: electric…
Measures to improve pedestrian crossings, provide a high-quality cycleway and improve bus service reliability are to be introduced in the…
On August 3, 2023, the City Council passed Int. 289-A, which requires the Department of Transportation to create a searchable…
As technology advances and a focus on environmental sustainability grows, e-bikes have emerged as a convenient and eco-friendly mobility solution.…
The new Stride 3 electric cargo bike from Raleigh is a good example of an e-vehicle designed with families in…
In Fort Smith, AR, the University of Arkansas’s Civil Engineering Department partnered with the municipality to create a bikeshare program…
As cities worldwide strive to address the challenges of traffic congestion, air pollution, and sustainable transportation, a new paradigm is…
Streetsblog talked to four Black bike advocates in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and the Twin Cities to get a snapshot of…
A new tool will help U.S. advocates fight for a national bike infrastructure network with the same passion with which…
As part of a partnership with the City and funding from California Energy Commission, the library allows patrons to make…
The shift toward greener, healthier, and more economical means of transportation has led to a surge in the popularity of…
Low ridership on fixed route buses. Lots of taxis waiting around. Communities in need of transit. The Socially Aware Mobility…
The concrete-island-protected bike lanes on Oakland’s Telegraph corridor in the KONO district are all but completed. This controversial project was nearly…
Philadelphia-based Jawnt is partnering with citywide bike-share operator POGOH to make it easier for employers to offer subsidized access to…
The explosion early on a June morning ignited a blaze that engulfed a New York City shop filled with motorized…
In Athens, OH, the local library system used a Creating Healthy Communities grant to launch their book-a-bike program. Athens, Ohio,…
The intersection of technology and bike racks in public transit is an intriguing aspect of modern urban life that is…
Ridership in major US cities has increased 27% since 2019, reaching almost 45 million annual trips.
Nine of the 10 of the world’s best cities for cyclists are in Europe, and they’re not necessarily the ones…
The City of Raleigh recently passed an e-bike voucher program that provides 150 residents between $500 and $1,500 to buy…
The project will leverage See.Sense’s intelligent bike lights, equipped with patented sensor technology Initiative will help to support the Romford…
Transportation is the largest source of heat-trapping emissions in the United States and one of the largest globally, so there’s an…
Janesville’s Recreation division is teaming up with Rock County Mobility Management to bring back their Cycling Without Age program this…
Despite the popularity of micromobility sharing as a first/last mile way to get around, more people still prefer to use…
In addition to public health guidelines, active transportation has several concepts that should be pursued in parallel. The first concept…
Here at Electrek we have spent countless hours undertaking detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through those thousands of miles of riding,…
On YouTube, fans of cycling infrastructure can marvel at a broad selection of video tours through cavernous bike garages in…
he California e-bike incentive program’s public workgroup met for the last time yesterday to hear how the program is shaping…
Say goodbye to designated bike lanes in downtown Culver City. By a vote of 3-2 this week, the Culver City…
For many of us, getting to work means mornings trapped behind the wheel in a traffic jam, or jostling for…
Amsterdam boasts that it’s the bike capital of the world. Smaller North American cities can learn from their best practices.…
What does trouble at the company operating four of the top five bike share systems in the United States mean for shared…
According to data collected by the US department of transportation, the number of people aged 60 and over riding electric…
In the spring of 2022, Walmart Inc. created a new position among the roughly 15,000 employees who work at its…
On any given Wednesday during the school year, you can find a pack of more than 150 kids bicycling to…
These projects could include activities such as the following: Create a network of active transportation facilities Integrate active transportation facilities…
In a groundbreaking development that could change the face of personal transportation, technology company Aerwins Technologies has unveiled the world’s…
On this episode of The Brake, host Kea Wilson talks with Elkins about what makes this Black-led, family-owned bikeshare stand out, why…
Protected bike lanes — or cycling paths that are physically separated from roadways to keep cars away from more vulnerable…
After launching its wildly successful e-bike voucher program last April, the city of Denver, Colorado has become an exemplar for…
New incentives — like the ones offered in Denver — are promising to advance the adoption of e-bikes and are…
Despite bone-chilling temperatures and often treacherous snowy conditions on city streets, many Winnipeggers are embracing living in a winter city by choosing cycling as…
Bike New York is a non-profit with an incredibly diverse mix of outreach programs to help get more people riding bikes. Free…
Installing protected routes tends to boost local shops. But many store owners remain attached to their street parking—and fight to…
California is set to join a number of other cities and states in the US by offering rebates and tax credits for…
A recently posted video shows a modified e-bike, capable of hitting 75mph, driven on the street, showing the future of…
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to an increase in cycling in many countries worldwide, it is not yet known…
You may think you’ve seen it all with the walking desks and under-desk exercise bikes that are on the market. At CES 2023, Acer took it up…
In an area with a reputation for shunning other forms of transportation, a handful of Johnson County commuters have a…
A new scheme that provides bikes to local communities has launched across Greater Manchester, following a £145,000 (US$173,000) investment from…
A roadway setup known as the ‘bike box,’ a painted-off area for bicyclists at the front of an intersection, can…
Researchers Jennifer Dill, Jiahui Ma, Nathan McNeil, Joseph Broach and John MacArthur of Portland State University have published a new article…
To make way for pedal-powered mobility, the Dutch capital embarked on a decades-long campaign to design streets around the needs of…
Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced the launch of the Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure (BICI), which will help ten cities around…
MobilityData, a nonprofit aiming to ease travel through shared data and information, will permanently oversee the General Bikeshare Feed Specification,…
In perhaps the most comprehensive literature review on the topic to date, researchers at Monash University in Australia analyzed thousands of international…
Nonprofit Shared Mobility is helping community groups set up e-bike libraries in low-income neighborhoods, where residents can check out an…
Move Ahead Washington is ambitious in its scope, requiring the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to “identify gaps that…
To encourage more Angelenos to take to the streets by bike — and keep them safe there — a demonstration project set to…
Can an electric bike lending program reduce congestion and smog in low-income city neighborhoods while improving mobility? Oakland, California, is…
In an effort to promote cycling as a realistic commuting option, Detroit’s Office of Mobility Innovation provided 110 workers electric…
Iowans will soon be able to ride the rails on what are known as “railbikes,” which resemble steel-framed go-carts that…
Vikki “Ayanna” Jones was driving through Homewood late last year when she saw a group of neighborhood children kicking the…
The Civic Bicycle Commuting project is a coalition of organizations in Los Angeles working on a data-driven, community-based platform that…
New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez today announced a Better Barriers pilot program to test new…
Transport users in San Antonio in Texas in the USA can now purchase, store and activate bike share passes as…
Thankfully Buffalo is home to the East Side Bike Club (ESBC – affiliate of the Buffalo United Front) – a…
Personal vehicles such as bicycles, e-bikes, e-scooters, and motorcycles have skyrocketed in popularity in the US over the last few…
A new study from VeiligheidNL, a Dutch organization focused on the prevention of injuries, concludes that e-bike riders have a greater…
UPS said on Friday it was trying out a four-wheeled “eQuad” electric cargo bike for deliveries in densely packed urban areas,…
AI sensors from Vivacity Labs are to be installed in three locations, in partnership with Monmouthshire County Council, to gather multi-modal…
Boston Properties introduced bicycle parking at Reston Town Center in Reston, Va., to help their tenants and customers tackle public…
In “Benchmarking Bike Networks,” the country’s largest bicycling advocacy organization takes stock of the best infrastructure and policy practices for…
European cities that installed pop-up bike lanes during the early days of the pandemic increased the number of daily cycling…
A software startup run by two seniors at Brown University aims to help more bike riders find better bike routes…
A pilot project offering holders of a Prague public transport pass free access to short-term bike rides has been successful…
The powered bikes have gone beyond being machines for the fitness-minded and moved into mainstream use.
SEMCOG, the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, has awarded $2,812,081 in Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) funding for four projects for…
A new community-based effort to bring more transportation options to low-income residents is set to begin early next year. Stakeholders…
Climate-friendly e-bikes are a key part of plans to decarbonize urban transportation. To speed adoption, more cities are offering lending programs…
What does it all mean, this numerically quantified bluster from the ACA and the USBRS? In short: better bike touring…
A team at the University of Oregon is working to give bicyclists smoother rides by allowing them to communicate with traffic signals…
The long-term health benefits of using bike share vastly outweigh the short-term risks, even in the most polluted and car-dominated…
The Oakland City Council voted Tuesday to install concrete barriers to protect bicyclists on a 10-block stretch of Telegraph Avenue…
An NBC News analysis of bike-share data from 11 of 13 cities that have comparable numbers shows that in May…
The mobility company is launching an updated electric model with a host of durability and accessibility improvements. But can it draw commuters…
Supported by a $50,000-grant from the Colorado Energy Office, 16 low-income workers in Durango, Colorado will receive e-bikes through a pilot program…
Here is a potentially telling statistic: Between 2001 and 2017, cycling trips to work for U.S.-born Latinos increased by 54%,…
The National Association of City Transport Officials reports “cycling explosions” in many cities in the United States. Bicycle stores are…
The city of Orlando is trying to encourage commuters to ride greener and reduce the usage of single-occupancy cars. In a…
For more than 250 formerly incarcerated people, attending weekly bike classes with the Opportunity Alliance and Reentry Richmond Inc. represents…
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) partnered with the Colorado Energy Office to assess the travel-behavior impacts of providing low-income…
People in Durham who prefer two-wheeled transportation say bike lanes with physical barriers reduce road fatalities, and they’re partnering with…
n 2020 and into 2021, transportation agencies, companies and advocacy groups acted swiftly in the face of the unique public…
A study of European cities adds to a growing body of evidence that investments in cycling infrastructure can encourage bike…
Engaging and encouraging marginalized communities and investing in infrastructure will grow cycling and make it more inclusive, according to a…
Lime, a major leader in the worldwide shared electric mobility industry, has just unveiled its latest electric bicycle model. Now…
Long popular in Europe, interest in e-bikes is growing in the United States among both cyclists and environmentalists. E-bikes are reportedly up to…
Hence came into existence the Onnee Minibike pod driven by the need to have a safe parking spot for bicycles.…
A proposed bill in the United States aimed to help the environment and promote car-free commuting could potentially benefit prospective…
The Active Transportation Assessment will look at collecting data within the city about roadways and where walking or biking facilities could go, in addition…
The transportation sector is now the primary contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the USA. The Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI),…
ike- and scooter-share systems across the country may soon be eligible for the federal transit dollars they need to remain…
The New Community Project calls the reclaimed ribbon the Northend Greenway. Foot by foot, the nonprofit and its partners are…
When you think a folding bike, you might picture a decidedly small, underwhelming bicycle that’s not much fun to ride, can’t…
Modeled after the widely used General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS), General Bikeshare Feed Specification (GBFS) defines a common format to share the…
In collaboration with the Advocacy Council for Tribal Transportation and other tribal members, researchers monitored 10 roadway sites specified as…
If bicycles and e-scooters could “talk” to cars on the road, riders would be safer — at least in theory.…
Electric bicycles are divisive in the cycling community. Some cyclists think that they are for lazy people and others think…
The Iowa City Bike Library has been an incredible resource for folks looking to get into cycling, whether for sport…
Bike -sharing platform Roam NRV will offer free rides to the polls on Election Day next month, according to the…
San José is rolling out the green carpet for biking, thanks to the City Council’s unanimous passage today of the Better…
As pedestrian and biker fatalities increased in the last decade, the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments is asking for volunteers…
On November 3rd, Holy Spokes bike share will o?er free bike rides to polling places in Charleston for Election Day.…
Studying usage in Singapore, MIT and SMART researchers find scooter rentals allow for increased sharing frequency and fewer vehicles needed.
A new interactive map from the Mapping and Data team at Buckeye Hills Regional Council attempts to paint a picture…
Last month, cycling advocates in the U.K. cheered the opening of Manchester’s “CYCLOPS.” Short for “Cycle Optimised Protected Signals,” the redesigned…
HUB Cycling has partnered with TransLink, Mobi by Shaw Go, and Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST) to increase awareness about…
Vancouver neighbourhoods often make for a pretty jaunt outdoors for cyclists and pedestrians, but a new study finds these areas…
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