Published at beltline.org September 2, 2013 ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta will receive an $18 million TIGER V grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the development of a 2.5-mile portion of the Atlanta BeltLine in the southwest corridor, announced Atlanta Mayor Reed on Monday. The TIGER V grant from the federal government…
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by Chris Asay I was in the Big Apple last week, and walked the High Line, which was formerly an elevated rail line that runs through Manhattan’s Lower West Side. It has been “recycled” in to an elevated garden and walkway. It is beautiful! And heavily used. There were lots of people just strolling along,…
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For quite a few people in America, talking about what Americans can learn from the cheese-eating surrender monkeys of the Old World is about as popular as replacing the Super Bowl by the World Cup would be. If you are one of those people, STOP READING RIGHT NOW. Still there? OK, here are the…
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RELATED: • To See The Future of Cycling in the U.S., I Slipped Over the Border
Last week I slipped over the border to get a glimpse into a possible future for U.S. cycling. Less than 40 miles from the U.S. border is a city of 1.8 million people at the heart of the 15th largest metropolitan area in North America. I woke up the first morning of my visit to…
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I had read about what bicycling was like in Europe, especially in cities such as Amsterdam and Copenhagen, but had never experienced it until last month. My husband and I did a fully supported bike tour* from Budapest to Prague and got to ride a wide variety of roads and bike paths. Wow! We encountered…
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Minneapolis (named the most bicycle-friendly city in U.S. by Bicycle Times magazine). Boulder (one of just four “platinum” ranked bicycle-friendly cities in U.S) Seattle (a “gold” bicycle-friendly city in the most bicycle-friendly state in the U.S.) Portland (another “platinum” U.S. city) What do all of these bicycle-friendly places have in common? Great urban bike paths…
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by Steven Litt Published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer In ambition, aesthetics and follow-through, Indianapolis’s new $63 million Cultural Trail deserves to be mentioned alongside New York’s acclaimed High Line park, Chicago’s Millennium Park and other new paragons of urban place-making. If there were an award for an American city with the most improved public realm, Indianapolis would…
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by Sophie Egan Published in the New York Times June 13, 2013 It took only a few days for reports of the first cycling accident involving New York’s new bike-sharing program to begin circulating. But experts and growing experience from bike-sharing programs in other cities make clear that bicycling can be a safe mode of…
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