The Monday Roundup

Here’s the news that caught our eye last week: – In response to constituents’ complaints, a Manhattan official has conducted an unscientific study of the city’s bike lanes, and found that they are being equally disrespected by all mode users. – During a period of heavy construction leading up to the UK Olympics, a plumber … Read more

Here’s the news that caught our eye this week: – Organizers guess that 100,000 people turned out on Sunday for CicLAvia, Los Angeles’ first open streets event, where 7.5 miles of streets were opened up for bicycling, walking, and hanging out. Check out this short video with on-the-street interviews and great footage:

Here’s the news that caught our eye this week: – National organization Bikes Belong is using some of its clout and funding to send U.S. city officials and planners to the Netherlands to bring home lessons in bicycle culture and infrastructure. A reporter followed one delegation and describes what he observed. – In NYC, bicycling … Read more

Here’s the news that caught our eye this week: – In Baltimore, a 30 year old woman who was running as the Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate was struck and killed while bicycling last week. – One more obstacle to an important bicycle trail connection in Seattle has been overthrown in court.

Here’s the news that caught our eye this week: – A government-commissioned study in the UK has found, presumably to nobody’s surprise, that overall, most drivers don’t like sharing the roads with bikes when there is no bicycle infrastructure and that negative views of cyclists, generally of the “they don’t obey laws or pay for … Read more

[Publisher’s note: Please welcome back contributor Elly Blue from her Bikestravaganza Tour. This is her first Monday Roundup for the past month or so.] Here’s the news that caught my eye this week: – Remember the three-year injunction on any bike projects in San Francisco? Now that it’s lifted the City attorney is going after … Read more

The First Family on a bike ride! Welcome back to Monday everyone. Here are the news items and other interesting tidbits that caught our eye last week… – President Obama and his family enjoyed a bike ride on their recent trip to Martha’s Vineyard. This news video (below) of the Obama bike path sighting is … Read more

A strange torpedo child trailer is just one of many interesting images of bike traffic in The Netherlands via a 1950s era video below. Happy Monday everyone. Ms. Blue is on her big Bikestravaganza tour, so I’m doing the Monday Roundup for the next few weeks. Here goes… – The “fixie craze” is being taken … Read more

Advocates in San Francisco finally got their wish.(Photo © J. Maus) Here’s the news that caught our eye this week: – The San Francisco bike infrastructure injunction has been lifted! The city is preparing to roll out 35 bike lanes that it’s planned over the last four years, during which bicycling rates in the city … Read more

Without a home, but not without a bike. (Photo © J. Maus) Here’s the news that caught our eye this week: – London has officially launched their new bike-sharing scheme with a fleet of 6,000. Here’s a look into how the technology works. – In Anchorage, Alaska a change in municipal code is being considered … Read more

London is the latest big city to get a public bike-share system, and it comes with these cool illustrations. Here’s the news that caught our eye this week: – The outcome of this year’s particularly dramatic Tour de France was decided by a mere 39 seconds. Meanwhile, Bend Oregon’s very own Chris Horner had a … Read more

Here’s the news that caught our eye this week: – Bend, Oregon continues to be the choice of big-time race organizers. They’ve been chosen to host the 2011 and 2012 Marathon Mountain Bike National Championships. – The final 150 mile gap of an off-road biking and walking path running from Washington, DC to Pittsburgh will … Read more