Cities around the world are discovering that the elegantly simple and efficient bicycle can be a serious transportation mode — if the right facilities are developed to make biking safe and convenient.

Recent GreenCityBlueLake coverage of Northeast Ohio bicycling

• Does Cleveland have bike sharing in its DNA? (April 19, 2010)
• Cleveland parking garages unprepared for bike parking ordinance (April 14, 2010) 
• Access for all: New Innerbelt bridge bike and pedestrian access
• Stock in Cleveland Bike Plan rises as region's plans fall flat (July 22, 2009)
• Downtown Cleveland Alliance launches bike rental program (June 19, 2009)
• See all GCBL bicycling posts 

Northeast Ohio bicycle maps and data

• Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA)
  • County bicycle maps
  • Final Bike Plan (March 2008)  
    • Summary document
  • 2009 NOACA bicycle counts - numbers are growing! (28k, PDF)
• Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study (AMATS)
  • Summit and Portage County bicycle maps (draft)
• City of Cleveland
  • 2010 Active Transportation Plan
  • Bikeway facts
  • Ordinance 522-08: Bicycle parking requirements

Bicycle photos

• Image gallery of existing bike facilities and new ideas for Northeast Ohio

News and analysis

• Update from Pittsburgh's Mayors' Institute on City Design:
  "The automobile does not rule.  Cities are about people, not cars.  Cities are successfully dismantling obsolete freeways that separate neighborhoods, undoing one-way street patterns from the 1950s, encouraging bicycling with bike lanes and trails, and expanding public transit with streetcars and rubber wheeled trolleys. The development of bike trails and bike lanes in the past 10 years in Pittsburgh has greatly increased bicycle commuting. Compared with other cities of its size, Pittsburgh has the highest percentage of daily transit use to its employment centers."  
  From the Post Gazette (March 2010)
• How to Get More Bicyclists on the Road: To boost urban bicycling, figure out what women want, Scientific American (October 2009)
• Bike sharing comes to S.F., San Francisco Chronicle (August 3, 2009)
• Happy streets: Holland's carfree thoroughfares, The Brooklyn Paper (July 14, 2009)
• "My Other Bike is a Public Transportation System: What's wrong with bike-sharing?" compares US bike sharing programs with the Velib bike sharing program in Paris, and identifies issues that remain with successful expansion of these programs in the US.  Sept. 2008.

Bicycle blogs and web resources

• Alliance for Biking & Walking
  • Alliance 2010 Benchmarking Report
  • People Powered Movement Blog
• Best practice bicycle planning for the suburbs (April 2010) 
• Urbanplacesandspaces blog - Ideas for making bicycling irresistable in Washington, D.C. 
• Streetsfilms.org - Documenting livable streets worldwide 
• Bicycle Comics - Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery
• National Complete Streets Coalition
• ClevelandBikes
• Congress considers Cycling Transportation bill
• EcoCity Cleveland bike pages
• Federal Highway Administration
  • Review of Ohio Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning and Safety Efforts (April 2009)
• Ohio Bicycle Federation
• Ohio City Bicycle Co-Op 
• Ohio Department of Transportation
  • Office of Multi-modal planning
• Walk + Roll Cleveland
• Walk + Roll Lakewood
• League of American Bicyclists' list of federal funding sources for bike facilities

Bicycle and pedestrian indexes, reports and design guidelines

• National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) Urban Bikeway Design Guide
• AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities (1999, PDF 2.4MB)
• FHWA Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)
• National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project
• Bellevue, Washington Pedestrian and Bicycle Report (Fall 2009, using cameras to count)
• Bicycle Environmental Quality Index (San Francisco)

Bicycle stations and parking

• Bike parking
  • Push Bike Parking - Green Pod (and others)
• Bike stations
  • Cleveland Bike Rack  

Bicycle sharing programs

• Information on bike sharing - The Bike Sharing Blog 
• North America bike sharing programs
  • Denver, Colorado - Denver Bike Sharing 
  • Montreal, Canada - bixi
  • Columbus, Ohio - Everyone Bikes
• Europe bike sharing programs
  • Vienna, Austria - Citybike  
  • Dublin, Ireland - Dublinbikes
  • Barcelona, Spain - Bicing (English translation here)
  • Rome, Italy - Roma'n'bike
  • Paris, France - Velib (English translation here)