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Creating Safer Streets in New Mexico’s Largest City

  • Author: Laurel Schwartz
  • Date: March 26, 2024

This multi-use trail project, funded by a Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grant, is designed to reinvigorate New Mexico’s largest city’s downtown while creating safer streets, a more environmentally sustainable environment, and improved quality of life.

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Eastern Iowa city uses RAISE grant for multimodal transit

  • Author: Laurel Schwartz
  • Date: February 1, 2024

On the northern banks of the Mississippi River, Dubuque, IA, is using multimodal transit projects to revitalize its historic neighborhoods. The project is being largely funded through a Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant. The City of Dubuque’s $2.28 million RAISE Planning Grant from the US Department of Transportation strives to use multimodal transportation to connect and revitalize communities.

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E-bike Subsidies Rise in Popularity

  • Author: Laurel Schwartz
  • Date: August 10, 2023

The shift toward greener, healthier, and more economical means of transportation has led to a surge in the popularity of…

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The Power of Electric Bike Libraries

  • Date: 10/15/2021

Climate-friendly e-bikes are a key part of plans to decarbonize urban transportation. To speed adoption, more cities are offering lending programs…

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10 cool e-bikes you should check out

  • Date: 02/23/2021

Long popular in Europe, interest in e-bikes is growing in the United States among both cyclists and environmentalists. E-bikes are reportedly up to…

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Cycling, the better mode of transport

  • Source: UN Environment
  • Date: 06/11/2019

“Urban population in developing nations is projected to continue to grow, adding 2.5 billion people to the world’s cities by…

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Bikes for Mobility Management

  • Author: Andrew Carpenter
  • Date: May 2, 2018

Bicycles and appropriate infrastructure are critical tools in mobility management. As a result, we’d like to take the beginning of…

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Designing for All Ages & Abilities

  • Source: National Association of City Transportation Officials
  • Date: 12/01/2017

A guide to how planners can design bike networks to be safe, comfortable, and equitable for bicyclists of all ages…

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Manual on Pedestrian and Bicycle Connections to Transit

  • Author: Nathan McNeil, Jennifer Dill, Drew DeVitis, Russell Doubleday, Allison Duncan, and Lynn Weigand
  • Source: Federal Transit Administration
  • Date: 08/01/2017

“This manual provides a compendium of best practices to help transit and other transportation professionals improve pedestrian and bicycle safety…

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Association between active commuting and incident cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mortality: prospective cohort study

  • Author: Carlos A Celis-Morales, Donald M Lyall, Paul Welsh, Jana Anderson, Lewis Steell, Yibing Guo, Reno Maldonado, Daniel F Mackay, Jill P Pell, Naveed Sattar, Jason M R Gill
  • Source: BMJ
  • Date: 04/19/2017

“What is already know on this topic: Active commuting, such as walking or cycling, has been recommended as a feasible…

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Unraveling the Modal Impacts of Bikesharing

  • Author: Susan Shaheen, Elliot Martin
  • Source: National Association of City Transportation Officials
  • Date: 02/01/2015

“Public bikesharing has emerged as one of the latest transportation innovations, transforming North American cities and providing people with more…

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ITDP Bikeshare Planning Guide

  • Source: Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
  • Date: 07/01/2014

“Bike-share has taken many forms over the course of its development, from free bikes left for a community to use…

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