We love all the great videos people are making about Strong Towns-related topics! This one explains why high bicycling rates are safer for all road users.
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This bicycling pastor’s new book offers valuable advice for any Strong Towns advocate—religious or otherwise.
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This Strong Towns member saw a huge problem with the parking minimums in his city—and decided to do something about it.
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And should I get one?
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Kirk Seyfert is helping get bikes to people who need them in Salem, OR.
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To move the needle of biking access, we have to thoughtful advocates. This guide will help you become one.
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Does YOUR city have problems? Learn how to solve them with one WEIRD, simple trick!
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A brilliant cargo bikeshare program in Germany could serve as a model for North American cities.
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Getting yourself from Point A to Point B in your city shouldn’t require 100-square-feet of space.
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Streets designed to keep people on bikes safe also boost community wealth. And budget-conscious city officials are starting to take notice.
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People are driving at half the normal rate. Now’s the time to cultivate new uses for our streets—uses which will help us both now and into the future.
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The lifelong champion of vehicular cycling—an approach that gives in to inhumane street design instead of questioning it—passed away this month. No better time to put his still-influential bad ideas to rest.
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Bike infrastructure is important, but it isn’t a substitute for making our roads safer. Case in point: the long winter months when many bike trails become unusable.
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A controversial new ad from Peloton has everyone talking. But will it finally get people talking about the benefits of real cycling—benefits that go far beyond just improved physical health?
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The way we design our cities, the metrics we track, and even our language — they all betray how we’ve come to prioritize cars over human bodies. What’s lost when our transportation paradigm doesn’t account for the diverse ways people still use our streets?
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Copenhagen’s famous biking culture—over 3 out of every 5 commutes are by bike—is lauded internationally as an achievement for the environment, public health, and—we’d add—fiscal sustainability alike. But they didn’t get there just by building bike lanes.
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So your city’s made progress on bike safety—there are some nice new bike lanes, and more people out and about on two wheels. How to keep the momentum going? That’s the situation in this Strong Towns member’s hometown, and he has some ideas to share.
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Los Angeles, where the car is famously king, may have one of the best shots of any American city of becoming a car-optional place at scale—not just in a few trendy neighborhoods lucky enough to have good transit. Here’s why.
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“We’ve gotta be perfect. If a negligent driver kills someone, people see it as a necessary evil. But if a cyclist runs a red light, or a scooter hops onto a sidewalk alongside a busy street, we are just jerks driving crazy little vehicles with no regard for the law.”
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In this episode of our podcast It’s the Little Things, Jacob chats with Strong Towns’s own Aubrey Byron about how to start your own bike advocacy group and have an impact on bike policy in your place.
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