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Talking Headways Podcast: Bike Guides to Build Your City
Let's talk bike lane design guides, the importance of history, political will, and the stress of being an expert witness in court.
June 2, 2025
Four Unanswered Questions about Biden’s Transportation Relief Plan
January 15, 2021
State DOTs to Feds: We Don’t Want to Reveal Our Impact on Climate Change
Every year state DOTs receive tens of billions of dollars in transportation funds from the federal government. By and large, they can do whatever they want with the money, which in most states means wasting enormous sums on pork-laden highway projects. Now that U.S. DOT might impose some measure of accountability on how states use these funds, of course the states are fighting to keep their spending habits as opaque as possible.
August 18, 2016
AASHTO’s Draft Bikeway Guide Includes Protected Bike Lanes and More
Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities connect high-comfort biking networks.
July 18, 2016
State DOT Engineers Say They’ll Do Better on Walking, Biking, Transit
In a welcome sign from an industry group that has been slow to embrace street designs that prioritize walking, biking, and transit, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) released a statement last week saying it intends to "better address multi-modal issues."
June 1, 2016
State Engineers Warm to Protected Bike Lanes for Next AASHTO Bike Guide
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.
September 23, 2015
The American Highway Safety Establishment Warms Up Some Leftovers
A group of heavy hitters in the road building and traffic safety establishment recently came out with a plan called "Toward Zero Deaths" [PDF], presented as an ambitious strategy to cut traffic fatalities in America. But don't get too excited by the branding -- the ideas inside don't present much of a challenge to practices that have made the U.S. a shameful laggard on traffic safety compared to other affluent nations.
March 20, 2015
AASHTO Chief: Don’t Blame Street Design for Cyclist Deaths
This is a pretty revealing (read: depressing) exchange between a U.S. representative and the president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, which represents state DOTs.
March 18, 2015
Pieces in Place for AASHTO to Endorse Protected Bike Lanes… by 2020
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.
January 28, 2015
What AASHTO’s “Top Projects” Tell Us About State DOT Leadership
Who can build the biggest road slab the fastest? Those seem to be the major criteria used by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials to determine the "best" projects by state DOTs across the country.
September 19, 2014