To hear the District's biggest bike boosters tell it, cycling is on the right track—and four-wheeled road users are going to have to share a lot more of it soon.
Here's the background: infrastructure tailored specifically for cyclists has grown exponentially since 2001, when then-Mayor Anthony Williams set out to make D.C. a bike-friendly city. The [...]

The New York Times' sprawling profile of the NYC Department of Transportation director Janette Sadik-Khan–one of many, but the first to really illuminate the backlash she's fighting among the city's political elite–has engendered a rash of introspection among urbanists. Why do they hate us? goes the refrain.
Matt Yglesias chimes in with one of his favorite [...]

For bicycle commuters, there are few experiences more frustrating than having automobiles block your bike lanes, as if people weren't actually trying to use them for transportation. It's downright dangerous–cyclists don't expect large stationary objects to appear in the middle of their right-of-way, and the more absent-minded of us are prone to run into them.
The [...]

Mayor Adrian Fenty by 15th Street's contra-flow bike lane yesterday—no police escort in sight!
Yesterday, I did a little reporting on D.C.'s brand new, contra-flow bike lane, which is protected by a lane for parked cars (look closely above.) It's a pilot project on 15th Street NW, and the District Department of Transportation plans to carefully [...]