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.
This section will cover all the efforts to make Northeast Ohio a more bike-friendly place.
Recent GreenCityBlueLake coverage of Northeast Ohio bicycling
- 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
Bike photos
- Image gallery of bike 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.
Bike blogs and web resources
- Streetsfilms.org - Documenting livable streets worldwide
- Bicycle Comics - Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery
- National Complete Streets Coalition
- ClevelandBikes
- City of Cleveland
- Congress considers Cycling Transportation bill
- EcoCity Cleveland bike pages
- Federal Highway Administration
- Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA)
- County bicycle maps
- Final Bike Plan (March 2008)
- Ohio Bicycle Federation
- Ohio City Bicycle Co-Op
- Walk + Roll Cleveland
- Walk + Roll Lakewood
- League of American Bicyclists' list of federal funding sources for bike facilities
Bike sharing programs
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Montreal, Canada - bixi
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Vienna, Austria - Citybike
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Columbus, Ohio - Everyone Bikes
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Dublin, Ireland - Dublinbikes
